Yada vs Hours
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yada
This app helps you retain information from books and other materials. It uses AI to create memory cards from your highlights and uploaded files, then schedules reviews using spaced repetition science to combat forgetting.
- Turn highlights into retention
- AI generates cards from uploaded files
- Memory-based card creation
- Spaced review scheduling
- Progress tracking
- Light and dark modes
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You read the material. You felt it land. Then weeks later the memories faded. That's not a failure – it's human biology. The mind forgets what it isn't reminded of. But the best ideas deserve to stay. Yada is the memory layer for the knowledge you care about. So what you learn actually compounds. Forever. So you become someone who knows. Yada Pro is available as an auto-renewable subscription. Payment will be charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Subscriptions may be managed, and auto-renewal turned off, in your Account Settings after purchase. Help & Support: founder@learnwithyada.com Terms of Use: https://learnwithyada.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://learnwithyada.com/privacy
Hours
Engage with daily ideas through reading or listening, exploring diverse topics like philosophy and science. The app helps you remember key takeaways with interactive questions and allows you to save and organize important passages.
- Daily curated ideas
- Read or listen to content
- Adjustable playback speed
- Interactive recall questions
- Save and organize passages
- Progress tracking visualization
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Read or listen to one idea a day. Follow where it leads. Remember what matters. Hours is a calm daily practice built around ideas worth understanding. Explore philosophy, cognitive science, history, art, culture, and how things get built. Each idea takes about 3 to 6 minutes to read, and every idea includes audio. Read when you want to linger over a passage. Listen when you’d rather give your eyes a break. READ OR LISTEN • Audio for every idea in the library • Adjustable playback speed • Continue listening from where you left off • Clear explanations, with their sources named FOLLOW CONNECTED IDEAS Paths bring three ideas together in a clear sequence. Each idea builds on the last, helping you see a larger pattern. Start with one. Read or listen, then continue at your own pace. REMEMBER WHAT MATTERS Hours brings back short questions to help you remember what you learned. Answer correctly and the next question comes later. Miss it and it comes back sooner. Questions due today collect in one place, ready for a few minutes of answering. KEEP YOUR OWN BOOK Press and hold a passage to save it. Your saved passages stay linked to their sources. Add your own notes, revisit what matters, or export your Book as a PDF. WATCH YOUR PRACTICE GROW Your tree grows with the ideas you’ve read and the questions you’ve answered. Saved passages become leaves. Your run tracks the weekdays when you read or answer a question. Weekends and one missed weekday each month won’t break it. Your tree, Book, and questions remain even if your run resets. EXPLORE THE LIBRARY Search the library, browse by field, revisit an idea, or follow a new path. Adjust text size, spacing, line length, and appearance for comfortable reading. MAKE ROOM FOR AN IDEA No feed. No endless scroll. No pressure to rush. Read or listen, understand, remember, and keep what matters. We add new ideas over time. Return whenever you’re ready. ACCESS Explore one free idea a day for five days and complete one full path. A subscription opens the full library and the complete Hours experience. Monthly, quarterly, and yearly plans offer a 3-day free trial for eligible subscribers. If your subscription includes a free trial, billing begins when the trial ends unless you cancel beforehand. Otherwise, payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current trial or subscription period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms: https://gethours.space/#terms Privacy: https://gethours.space/#privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Hours at none against Yada's shown. Yada's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Yada sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Hours sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Yada against 5.0 for Hours. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yada has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Yada ships an update weekly, Hours every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yada | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 74 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NANA LABS LTD | Beka Maisuradze |
Customer experience
Yada
Hours
In-app purchases
Yada
- Yada Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Yada Pro Annual7 Days trial$59.991 Year
Hours
- Hours Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
- Hours Pro 3 Months3 Days trial$12.993 Months
- Hours Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year









