SCRIBZEE® vs DocHive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SCRIBZEE®
Securely access all your handwritten notes from any device, anytime. This app offers high-quality scans that are automatically enhanced for clarity and readability. Organize, share, and even convert notes to PDF for easy distribution.
- Secure cloud access for notes
- High-quality automatic scanning
- Cross-device synchronization
- Note organization by subject/project
- Share notes via social media/messaging
- Convert notes to PDF
- Revision progress tracking
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ACCESS ALL YOUR HANDWRITTEN NOTES SECURELY, WHEN AND WHERE YOU NEED THEM, on your smartphone, tablet or laptop. Already more than a million people are using SCRIBZEE®. ◆ WITH SCRIBZEE® YOUR HANDWRITTEN NOTES ARE ACCESSIBLE EVERYWHERE, EVEN WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE YOUR NOTEBOOK WITH YOU ◆ Whether you’re a student or a professional on a business trip, it’s great to be able to access all your handwritten notes without having to carry your notes or notebooks around with you. With SCRIBZEE®, access your notes anywhere and at any time via the smartphone app, even in flight mode, or alternatively on a tablet, PC or Mac with SCRIBZEE® Online (www.scribzee.com). ◆ A HIGH-QUALITY SCAN EVERY TIME, BETTER THAN USING YOUR SMARTPHONE CAMERA ◆ Capturing your notes with your smartphone camera is a possibility. However, the result doesn’t often come up to expectations. The pages are crooked, slightly blurry and badly framed. Your notes get mixed up with your photos, they take up storage space and are not multipage. With SCRIBZEE® and your compatible HAMELIN product, your scan is automatically enhanced by the app, so you get a high-quality result every time: • Accurate framing of the page content, • Vertical and horizontal re-framing of the image, • Optimisation of the contrast and brightness levels Your scanned notes are always clear and fully readable, shareable, enrichable and printable. ◆ SCRIBZEE® FOR LEARNING ◆ Are you in the habit of forgetting your notebook? Have you ever misplaced study cards or had them torn to pieces by your puppy? SCRIBZEE® protects your notes so you can study wherever and whenever you need to on your smartphone. Do you wake up in the morning with study cards strewn all over your bed? Organise your notes by subject in SCRIBZEE® and study in bed using your smartphone. Fed up of seeing more pics of your notes or study cards on your smartphone than photos of your friends? Store your notes in SCRIBZEE® and free up your photo gallery for more important things. Got a friend in need? With SCRIBZEE® share your class notes or study cards with one click (Twitter, Messenger, What’s App). Have you written out so many study cards you don’t know where to start revising? With SCRIBZEE® assign a status (red, orange, green) to each card and keep track of your revision progress. ◆ SCRIBZEE® FOR BUSINESS ◆ Does your job involve long-term projects? Save and access all your notes in SCRIBZEE®. Do you manage lots of different projects? Archive your notes by subject, client or project name and find everything you need with SCRIBZEE®’s search function. Do you frequently attend meetings then need to send out the meeting notes quickly? With SCRIBZEE® no more typing out handwritten notes, just convert to PDF and share instantly. Do you find your notes or meeting minutes easily get mixed up? Keep your notes under control access them faster by linking them to the appointments in your calendar. ◆ SCRIBZEE® IS ALSO ◆ • A free app. • Exclusively available with your favourite HAMELIN notebook. • Includes dedicated, unlimited free cloud storage space. • Totally secure. Your notes are encrypted and only readable by you. • Allows you to create automatic reminders for your important notes. • Add photos from your smartphone to enrich your handwritten notes. • And much more.
DocHive
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Paper goes in. A named, sorted PDF comes out - on a server you own. Filing a document usually means scanning in one app, exporting, hunting for the right folder, and inventing a filename. The naming drifts, the folders drift, and eventually it just doesn't get done. DocHive is four taps: scan, pick a category, tap a few tags, done. The file lands at Category/Year/Month with a name that looks the same as every other one you have filed - so it is still findable in a year. YOUR DOCUMENTS, YOUR STORAGE There is no DocHive account and no DocHive cloud. Files go where you tell them: a folder on your iPhone or in iCloud Drive, or your own server over WebDAV. Works with Nextcloud, Synology NAS, and any standard WebDAV server. IT READS THE DOCUMENT SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO DocHive recognises the text of a scan on the device and suggests the category, the tags, and the date the document states about itself - so an invoice from last month is filed under last month, not today. It learns the senders you file, and gets better at it. Nothing is filed automatically. You confirm every one. BUILT FOR A SERVER THAT ISN'T ALWAYS THERE A home server is not reachable from a train. A scan is written to the device before any upload is attempted, and it stays there until it has genuinely arrived - uploads continue with the phone locked, and retry on their own. A scan is never lost to a failed upload. ALSO • Multi-page scanning, with reorder and delete before you file • Searchable text layer inside every PDF • Search everything you have filed, and open it again • Import PDFs and images you already have • Full English, German and Polish • Backup and restore your setup and history to a single file • No analytics, no tracking, no ads, no accounts DocHive is made in Switzerland by DataVibes.ch.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SCRIBZEE® at 13.0 against DocHive's 17.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | SCRIBZEE® | DocHive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (178 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 53.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 178 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 136 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hamelin SAS | Tarek Al-Selwi |
Bugs and requests
SCRIBZEE®
Reported bugs
5 issues- App fails to open or get stuck on loading screen
- Issues with account creation and password reset
- Scanned notes not saving or disappearing
- Inconsistent behavior when scanning multiple pages
- Compatibility problems with certain device models
Requested features
5 requests- Add sub-folder support for better organization
- Improve handwriting recognition accuracy
- Implement a more user-friendly interface
- Allow scanning of non-proprietary notebooks
- Integrate with popular note-taking apps
DocHive
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
SCRIBZEE®
No in-app purchases
DocHive
No in-app purchases









