Comparison

Hop vs Day Showcase

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Hop

Features
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Hop is a fast, beautiful SSH client for iPadOS and iOS, built for developers and sysadmins. Connect to any server with a password or SSH key and work in a native terminal that feels just like your usual console. Highlights β€’ SSH with password or key auth (Ed25519 and RSA, OpenSSH and PKCS#1) β€’ Reusable identities: save a user + credential and reuse it across servers β€’ Organize servers into collapsible groups β€’ Multiple simultaneous sessions with live status indicators β€’ Fast terminal with full hardware & Magic Keyboard support β€’ On-screen control keys (esc, tab, Ctrl, arrows) and text zoom β€’ Terminal-native dark design with monospaced type β€’ Credentials secured in the device Keychain β€’ Available in English and Spanish Your servers, in your pocket.

About

Day Showcase

Features
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Day Showcase is the demo app for Day (daybrite.dev), a framework for creating mobile and desktop apps in Rust. Each screen in the app is a demonstration of one part of the framework: Controls: buttons, switches, sliders, steppers, pickers, text fields, a multi-line editor, date and time pickers, keyboard focus, and pointer cursors. Layout: rows, columns, and layers under each fit policy, and a grid with spanning cells. Navigation & chrome: a push stack, tabs, menus and dialogs, the window toolbar, and a content list that opens each item in an editor. Data: a list and a tree over live models, and queries against a local store. Graphics & media: shapes, paths, gradients, and transforms on a canvas, animation, Lottie playback, bundled resources, media playback, a map, and a web view. Platform: battery and connectivity, accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer traces, HTTP requests, notifications and the app badge, speech and haptics, and files. App & tooling: localization, scripting, tweaks, a benchmark against SwiftUI, and crash reporting. The toolbar on every page has a code button that opens that page's Rust source on GitHub, so you can read the code beside the result. The star button pins a page to the top of the list, and the theme button switches the appearance. The app is translated into English, French, Arabic, and Simplified Chinese. Switching the language on the Localization page updates every page in place, and Arabic mirrors the layout. Day and this app are open source. The framework is at github.com/daybrite/day and the app's source is at github.com/daybrite/Day-Showcase. Each page in the app contains a link to the underlying source code.

Screenshots

Hop4 screens
Day Showcase4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Day Showcase at every 5 days against Hop's every 6 weeks. Day Showcase also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hop ships an update every 6 weeks, Day Showcase every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Β· 4 level
Hop versus Day Showcase: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHopDay Showcase
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.016.0 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size15 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJUAN DE DIOS FRAUSTO RAMIREZThe App Fair Project Inc

In-app purchases

None

Hop

No in-app purchases

None

Day Showcase

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hop free?
Hop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Day Showcase free?
Day Showcase is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hop or Day Showcase have ads?
Neither Hop nor Day Showcase shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hop or Day Showcase?
Hop ships an update every 6 weeks, and Day Showcase every 5 days. Most recently, Hop was updated on September 11, 2026 and Day Showcase on September 21, 2026.

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