Hubort or Echoes: which one should search your AI chats?
Echoes covers more services and more computers. Hubort keeps your chats in an app on your own computer that every browser profile fills, has no cloud account or sync between devices, and is free for two accounts with nothing held back. If you use Perplexity or DeepSeek, or a Mac or Linux PC, Echoes is the one to look at. If you use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok on Windows, across several accounts or browsers, and would rather nothing left your computer, look at Hubort. Everything below was read from Echoes' own site and store listing on 30 September 2026.
What is different between Hubort and Echoes?
The main differences are the coverage, the computers and where the chats are kept. This is what each product's own pages said on 30 September 2026.
| What | Hubort | Echoes |
|---|---|---|
| Services | ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok | Those four, and Perplexity, DeepSeek and Google AI Studio |
| Runs on | Windows 10 and 11: an app, and an extension in Chrome, Edge or Firefox | A Chrome extension, and a desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux |
| Where your chats are kept | A database on your computer, outside any browser. No cloud account, and no sync between devices | Its site says on your device, and cloud sync on the paid plans |
| Two accounts of one service | Searched together, each result marked with its account | Its site says it manages accounts together and lets you filter a search by account |
| Free | Everything, for two sources | 20 searches, 10 summaries and 5 exports a month, 5 labels, 10 favorites |
| Monthly | $4.99 Personal, $9.99 Pro | $8.99 Plus |
| Yearly | $29 Personal, $59 Pro | $89.99 Plus |
| Once | $79 Personal, $149 Pro (12 months of updates) | $199.99 Lifetime, shown reduced from $299.99 |
| Its Chrome Web Store listing | Published 28 September 2026, no ratings yet | 9,000 users, 4.0 stars from 251 ratings, version 8.3.1, updated 8 August 2026 |
When is Echoes the better choice?
When you need something Hubort doesn't do. It covers seven services to Hubort's four. It runs on macOS and Linux as well as Windows, where Hubort is Windows only. Its desktop app can answer questions with a model that runs on your own computer, which needs about 1 GB of disk and 8 GB of memory, open several chats side by side, and hand a chat that ran out in one service to another. Its paid plans sync across your devices, and Hubort doesn't: your chats are on the one computer that runs it, and a backup to your own Google Drive if you set one up. And its Chrome Web Store listing has 9,000 users and 251 ratings behind it, where Hubort's is days old.
When is Hubort the better choice?
When cost and where your chats live matter most. Hubort is free for two sources with nothing held back, where Echoes' free plan is capped each month. A source is one account on one provider, however many browsers it syncs from. Personal is $29 a year against Echoes Plus at $89.99, or $79 once against $199.99. Every Hubort install starts with 14 days of everything, with no card; Echoes offers a 7-day trial of Plus. Hubort keeps every chat in a plain SQLite database on your computer that any tool can open, exports everything as Markdown on every plan, and has no server to send them to. It reads Chrome, Edge and Firefox profiles into that one database.
Does Echoes search across two accounts of the same service?
Its site says it does. Its use-cases page describes finding “one specific chat across many accounts and devices”, telling you to add your accounts across platforms so Echoes manages them together, and to filter by account. Its home page says you can “connect and switch between multiple AI accounts”. We haven't run Echoes against two accounts of one service, so we can't say how it behaves, and its site doesn't mention browser profiles. Hubort does this too, and the difference we can state is where it happens: in one app on your computer, not in each browser.
What should I know before choosing Hubort?
Three awkward facts, so you hear them from us. Hubort is Windows only for now, and needs two installs: the app, then the extension in each browser. Its installer is not code-signed yet, so your browser and Windows will each warn you about it; the download page says exactly what you'll see. And it reads each service's web app on a schedule, which may be inconsistent with that service's terms: the full note is in the privacy policy.
Checked on 30 September 2026 against echoes.r2bits.com and its Chrome Web Store listing. Hubort isn't affiliated with Echoes or its makers. Something here wrong or out of date? Tell us at [email protected] and we'll correct it, and say so here.
How do I try Hubort?
Install the app, then add the extension to each browser you use AI in. Every install starts with 14 days of everything.