Comparison

Vays vs hubHub

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

Head to head
About

Vays

Features
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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 โ€ข GitHub Flavored Markdown: tables, task lists, strikethrough โ€ข Callout cards โ€” GitHub [!NOTE] / [!TIP] / [!WARNING] and Obsidian styles โ€ข Display math typeset natively โ€” no web view โ€ข shields.io badges drawn natively, front-matter shown as a tidy card โ€ข Footnotes become superscripts with gathered definitions โ€ข Mermaid blocks appear as clean code cards (full diagram rendering is on the roadmap) โ€ข Dark mode tuned for night reading WRITE โ€ข Source editor with Markdown highlighting โ€ข Autosave straight back to the file โ€” no export dance โ€ข 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.

About

hubHub

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Vays4 screens
hubHub4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Vays versus hubHub: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVayshubHub
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size14 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperARVIND JUNEJA OUMMGiovanni Coppola

In-app purchases

None

Vays

No in-app purchases

None

hubHub

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Vays free?
Vays is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is hubHub free?
hubHub is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Vays or hubHub have ads?
Neither Vays nor hubHub shows ads.

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