Comparison

hYYa ink vs JSON Scope

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

Head to head
About

hYYa ink

This app transforms raw text files and documents into easily readable formats. It allows for in-document editing, PDF manipulation, format conversion, and AI-powered assistance, all while prioritizing user privacy and offline functionality.

Highlights
  • Read Markdown, JSON, YAML, CSV, diagrams, and more
  • Edit text files and tables directly
  • Sign, mark up, and redact PDFs
  • Convert between various document formats
  • AI-powered document explanation and summarization
  • Offline document viewing and editing
Features
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Stop reading syntax. Start reading documents. A .md file. A JSON export. A notebook, a diagram, a contract to sign. hYYa ink opens them as clean, readable documents instead of walls of raw text, on your Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. Reading is free, forever. READ WHAT YOU'RE SENT • Markdown — clean headings, lists, tables and links • JSON, YAML and TOML — tidy trees you can fold and explore • CSV and TSV — a real table, not a wall of commas • Mermaid and Graphviz — diagrams drawn instantly, offline • LaTeX — math that looks right • Jupyter notebooks — cells, code and text outputs, easy to read • AsciiDoc, Org-mode, XML, diffs and logs — readable at last FIX IT WHERE YOU SEE IT Change a JSON value or a table cell right on the page, and only that changes. Sort, filter and find & replace in any table. Write Markdown with a simple toolbar. Edit any text file and see it as a clean document. SIGN, MARK UP AND REDACT PDFS Tap the spot and type. Draw your signature, then place, resize and rotate it. It's a visual signature, not a certified one. Add stamps such as Approved or today's date. Highlight, underline or mark up by hand. Need something gone? Redact removes the selected text from the page. Erase does the same and leaves clean white space. Either way you get a new file, and your original stays as it was. Find any word in a PDF, browse by page or contents, and open password-protected files. Make a scan searchable, right on your device. Reorganize, split, compress, protect or watermark, and each one saves a new file. Compare two PDFs to see which pages differ. TURN ONE FORMAT INTO ANOTHER Save JSON, YAML, TOML and XML as one another, tables as CSV or TSV, notebooks and Org files as Markdown, Markdown and AsciiDoc as web pages, and diagrams as SVG or PNG. If something can't carry over exactly, hYYa ink tells you first. ASK AI, WITH YOUR OWN KEY Explain, summarize or translate a document, PDFs included. Fix errors, reformat, or turn an idea into a diagram. Connect OpenRouter, Groq, Together AI or a compatible service. Your key stays on your device. Only the open document's text is sent, and only when you run an AI action. Every AI result says it was written by AI. PRIVATE BY DESIGN. BEAUTIFUL BY DESIGN. No account. No tracking. No data collection. Documents open on your device without an internet connection, and they stay there unless you choose to send them. FREE TO READ, PRO TO DO MORE Reading every format is free forever, and so are saving as a PDF, printing, and searching or browsing a PDF. Try everything free for 7 days. You are not charged. After that, a one-time purchase unlocks editing, PDF tools, saving in other formats and AI on Mac, iPhone, iPad and Apple Vision Pro. From hYYa — more than apps. Companions you can trust.

About

JSON Scope

Features
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JSON Scope opens the JSON files other tools give up on. A 900 MB API dump, a 2 GB export, a multi-million-line NDJSON log: JSON Scope maps the file, indexes it once, and stays interactive without loading it into memory. Everything happens on your device. JSON Scope makes no network connections, has no account and collects no data. On macOS it ships without the network entitlement, so the system itself prevents it. FREE • Open .json files up to 50 MB • A virtualised tree that expands lazily at any depth • A raw byte view with line numbers • Find keys and values, with match counts and next/previous • Precise validation: line, column, the offending token, and what was expected • Copy a node's JSONPath, its value, or its whole subtree • Quick Look previews of JSON in Finder (macOS) PRO • Open .json files of any size — tested to 2 GB — and .jsonl / .ndjson • Table view: records as rows, with inferred column types, sorting and filtering • JSONPath queries, including filters such as $.store.book[?(@.category == 'fiction')].title • jq-style queries: . .a.b .[] | select(...) {x, y} keys length map to_entries • JSON Schema (2020-12) inference for any node • Structural diff of two documents, by key and by position • Edit values and keys, then save — every byte you did not touch is preserved exactly • Export any node as JSON or CSV • A "Query JSON File" action for Shortcuts and Spotlight JSON Scope Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. Both subscriptions include a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in your Apple Account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Pro is a Universal Purchase: one purchase covers macOS, iPadOS and iOS on the same Apple Account. Privacy Policy: https://jsonscope.eonix.lk/privacy Terms of Use: https://jsonscope.eonix.lk/terms

Screenshots

hYYa ink4 screens
JSON Scope4 screens

Verdict

The call

hYYa ink and JSON Scope are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. hYYa ink sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and JSON Scope sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
hYYa ink versus JSON Scope: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterhYYa inkJSON Scope
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHassaan AbdeenEonix (Pvt) Ltd

In-app purchases

2 purchases

hYYa ink

One-time2
  • 7-day TrialFree
  • hYYa ink Pro$19.99
3 purchases

JSON Scope

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • JSON Scope Pro — Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is hYYa ink free?
hYYa ink is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is JSON Scope free?
JSON Scope is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do hYYa ink or JSON Scope have ads?
Neither hYYa ink nor JSON Scope shows ads.

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