hYYa ink vs Cmdly
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
hYYa ink
This app transforms developer, student, and academic files like Markdown, JSON, and PDFs into readable, editable documents. It offers live rendering, collapsible trees, table views, and diagram generation, with robust PDF editing and AI integration.
- Live Markdown rendering
- Collapsible JSON/YAML trees
- Editable CSV tables
- Offline diagram generation
- PDF reading, editing, and signing
- AI-powered document actions
- Format conversion
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Stop reading syntax. Start reading documents. hYYa ink turns the files developers, students and academics use every day into beautiful, readable, editable documents instead of walls of raw text. On Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. ONE APP, MANY FORMATS • Markdown — rendered live, with a formatting toolbar (bold, headings, lists, quotes, links) • JSON, YAML, TOML — collapsible trees, with JSON values editable right in the tree • CSV & TSV — a real table: sort, filter, find & replace, edit cell by cell • Mermaid & Graphviz — diagrams drawn instantly, fully offline • LaTeX — math typeset beautifully • Jupyter notebooks — cells, code and text outputs, cleanly laid out • AsciiDoc, Org-mode, XML, diff, logs — readable at last EDIT, DON'T JUST VIEW Edit the source and watch the document update. On Mac, iPad and Apple Vision Pro, a split view shows source and preview side by side. Change JSON values and CSV cells right in the preview, and hYYa ink writes the file back in valid syntax for you. Start a new document in any format: tap the format label at the top of a document, then choose Graphviz, Mermaid, LaTeX, JSON and more. SAVE AS ANOTHER FORMAT Save a document as a new file in another format: JSON, YAML, TOML and XML into one another, tables as CSV or TSV, notebooks and Org files as Markdown, Markdown and AsciiDoc as web pages, diagrams as SVG or PNG. If something can't carry over exactly, hYYa ink says so first. PDF — READ, SEARCH, ORGANISE, SIGN Open any PDF as a real document. Find any word with a live match count. Browse by page thumbnail or by the document's own contents. Is the file password-protected? hYYa ink asks for the password and opens it. To add text, tap the exact spot on the page and type, then drag the text into place. Draw your signature by hand, then place, resize and rotate it. Save it, or your initials, for next time, and add stamps such as Approved, Paid or today's date. Mark up a page freehand with pen, pencil and marker, or highlight, underline and strike through the text you select. Make a scanned PDF searchable: text recognition adds a text layer to scanned pages, so you can search them. It runs on your device, and your pages are never sent anywhere. You can also reorganise pages, extract pages or split a PDF into files, save pages as images, make a PDF from photos, remove the password from a PDF you've opened, protect, compress or watermark a PDF. Each of these, like making a PDF searchable, writes a NEW file and leaves the PDF you opened untouched. And you can compare two PDFs to see which pages differ. BRING YOUR OWN AI Use your own key with an AI service: OpenRouter, Groq, Together AI, or another service that works the same way. "Explain", "Summarize" and "Translate" work on every document, PDFs included; "Reformat", "Fix errors" and "Make diagram" (as Mermaid code) on the others. Your key stays on your device. Only the open document's text is sent, and only when you use an AI action. Every AI result says it was written by AI and names the model. PRIVATE BY DESIGN. BEAUTIFUL BY DESIGN. No accounts. No tracking. No data collection. Documents open and display on your device without an internet connection, and they never leave your device unless you ask. FREE TO READ, PRO TO EDIT Reading and previewing every format hYYa ink opens is free forever, and so are saving it as a PDF and printing it. On PDFs, search, the page and contents browser, and opening password-protected files are free too. A free 7-day trial unlocks everything. After that, a single one-time purchase unlocks editing, saving in other formats and the AI features permanently, on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. On Mac, select a file in Finder and press Space: Quick Look shows CSV and TSV as a table, JSON neatly indented, and Markdown, YAML and other text files as plain, readable text. From hYYa — more than apps. Companions you can trust.
Cmdly
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Stop googling the same commands over and over. Cmdly is a fast, no-nonsense cheat sheet for the commands you always forget. Git flags, that one docker command, the kubectl syntax you can never remember — all in one place, always in your pocket. Tap any command to copy it, then paste it straight into your terminal. Done. START WITH READY-MADE SETS Cmdly comes loaded with hundreds of the most-used commands across git, bash, vim, python, docker, kubectl, npm/node, rails and more. Pick the systems you use and you're ready to go in seconds. MAKE IT YOURS Add your own commands as you go. Create whole new systems for anything — terraform, psql, your team's custom scripts, whatever you reach for. If you type it in a terminal, it belongs here. FIND IT FAST Search across everything by command, description, or tag. No scrolling, no digging. BULK IMPORT Got commands scattered across notes and gists? Import a CSV and pull them all in at once. EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Your commands sync privately across iPhone, iPad, and Mac through your own iCloud. Add something on your laptop, grab it on your phone. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No servers. No tracking. Your commands live on your device and sync through your personal iCloud — nobody else can see them, including us. Cmdly is the reference you'll actually use. Add it once, stop googling forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cmdly at none against hYYa ink's 2. hYYa ink's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On price, ads and device support 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. hYYa ink sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Cmdly asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | hYYa ink | Cmdly |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hassaan Abdeen | Andrien Ricketts |
In-app purchases
hYYa ink
- 7-day TrialFree
- hYYa ink Pro$19.99
Cmdly
No in-app purchases









