Vays vs hubHub
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Vays
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Your AI writes Markdown all day. Now you can read it anywhere. VAYS MD is a native iPhone and iPad reader and editor for .md files โ READMEs, specs, meeting notes, transcripts. Open a file and read it like a document, with real typography, not source code. No cloud in the middle. Nothing leaves your device. READ โข GitHub Flavored Markdown: tables, task lists, strikethrough โข Callout cards โ GitHub [!NOTE] / [!TIP] / [!WARNING] and Obsidian styles โข Display math typeset natively โ no web view โข shields.io badges drawn natively, front-matter shown as a tidy card โข Footnotes become superscripts with gathered definitions โข Mermaid blocks appear as clean code cards (full diagram rendering is on the roadmap) โข Dark mode tuned for night reading WRITE โข Source editor with Markdown highlighting โข Autosave straight back to the file โ no export dance โข Works with the Files app: iCloud Drive, On My iPhone, and any provider PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No analytics. No network requests. Your documents stay in your storage, exactly where they were. BETTER TOGETHER WITH THE MAC APP VAYS MD Reader for Mac adds a folder library, Mermaid diagrams rendered offline, a visual diagram creator, QuickLook, PDF export and Claude Code integration. Same design, same privacy. PART OF THE VAYS FAMILY From the maker of Vays, the private voice-note app. Record on the go, read the transcript beautifully. Built by a solo developer. Every feedback email is read.
hubHub
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hubHub shows the numbers behind your open-source work: release downloads, open issues, stars, forks and watchers for every repository you own, with the change since the previous snapshot next to each one. ALL YOUR REPOS IN ONE LIST Each repository shows the counts you choose, each with its change since last time. Sort by downloads, by any other count, by name, or by biggest change. Filter down to only the repos that moved. ISSUES, MOST FIRST A separate tab lists only the repositories with open issues, most first, so you know where to look. HISTORY, CHARTED Tap a repository to see any of its five counts charted over time. The history builds up on your phone every day you open the app, and you can import years of it from the alfred-hubHub workflow for Alfred on the Mac. COUNTED CORRECTLY Downloads count every asset of every release, not just the first. Watchers are real watchers, not stars under another name. YOUR NUMBERS STAY YOURS hubHub reads the GitHub API with a personal access token that you create. The token is kept in the iPhone Keychain on this device only, and goes nowhere but api.github.com. There is no hubHub server, no account, no analytics, and nothing is collected. TRY IT FIRST Turn on sample data in Settings to explore the app with a made-up account before adding a token. hubHub is an independent app and is not affiliated with GitHub, Inc.
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Verdict
Vays and hubHub are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Vays | hubHub |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ARVIND JUNEJA OUMM | Giovanni Coppola |
In-app purchases
Vays
No in-app purchases
hubHub
No in-app purchases









