Comparison

Muse Pro vs Hive

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

Head to head
About

Muse Pro

This app is a powerful AI-driven drawing and illustration tool for iPad and Apple Pencil. It offers a vast brush library, advanced layering, and real-time AI generation to help artists create detailed sketches, paintings, and illustrations.

Highlights
  • Handcrafted brushes and artistic tools
  • Advanced layering system
  • Real-time AI generation
  • Prompt enhancer powered by GPT-4
  • Image to prompt conversion
  • Creative upscaler and image enhancer
Features
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Muse Pro is the epitome of digital creativity on the iPad, catering to both established and aspiring artists. With an extensive selection of handcrafted brushes, cutting-edge artistic tools, an advanced layering system, and a high-speed graphics engine, Muse Pro enables you to bring to life expressive sketches, vibrant paintings, detailed illustrations. Designed to harmonize with the iPad and Apple Pencil, Muse Pro turns any setting into your personal art studio, offering the following features for an unparalleled creative experience: • Core Features Designed with an intuitive interface for the iPad and Apple Pencil. Smooth and responsive smudge sampling powered by Metal, drawing at 120 fps on Apple's XDR Pro Display. Continuous auto-save ensures your work is always secure. • Breakthrough Brushes A wide array of hundreds of beautifully crafted brushes. Brush sets for organizing your painting, sketching, and drawing tools. Import and export capabilities for custom .brushset brushes. • Advanced Layering System Offers precise control over details and composition through layer management. Select layers for individual movement or transformation of objects. • The Design Tools You Need Add vector Text to your illustrations for enhanced communication. Crop and Resize your canvas to achieve the perfect composition. A custom rendering engine that perfects your strokes in real-time for flawless results. Streamline and stabilization features smooth out strokes, ideal for calligraphy and precise inking. Use Scribble to change prompt settings and create text effortlessly. • AI Features Real-time AI generation at up to 30 fps for dynamic creativity. A Prompt enhancer, powered by GPT-4, assists in crafting detailed prompts. Image to prompt conversion with GPT-4 Vision for enhanced AI-driven creation. Creative upscaler and image enhancer: upscale your drawings up to 4x and easily switch styles for ultra-high definition images. • Share Your Creations Support for importing JPG, PNG, and TIFF image files. Export your artwork as layered .musepro files or in high-quality PNG format, making it easy to share with peers. Muse Pro is accessible on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad, offering an intuitive interface with gestures like two-finger tap to undo, three-finger tap to redo, and four-finger tap to clear a layer. It also supports light and dark mode and accommodates both left and right-handed users, ensuring a seamless and inclusive creative process. Terms of Service: https://bit.ly/muse-pro-tos Privacy Policy: https://bit.ly/muse-pro-privacy

About

Hive

This app helps designers, creators, and innovators organize and manage all their creative assets in one place. It offers smart photo organization, an integrated video player, and multiple ways to save inspirations, streamlining your creative process. Effortlessly sort, categorize, and find your ideas with advanced filtering and search capabilities.

Highlights
  • Organize creative assets
  • Smart photo organizer
  • Integrated video player
  • Multiple save methods
  • Web capture
  • Multi-level folder system
  • Advanced search and filter
Features
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Hive is a private visual reference library for designers, illustrators, photographers, and creative teams. Save references the moment you find them—Share Sheet, clipboard, Safari, and links—then keep images, video, and files in one library you actually control. No feed. No tracking theater. Just a calm place to store and reopen what you need. Organize for real work • Folders, tags, filters, and search built for reference retrieval • Smart Folders to surface the set you need for a project • Mixed media in one place: images, video, links, and files Built for mobile creative workflows • Fast capture on iPhone and iPad • Browse and reuse references on the go • Works with an Eagle-compatible library workflow on mobile Privacy by default • Your library stays yours Hive is for people who already collect inspiration in Pinterest, moodboards, or Eagle on the desktop—and need a private, organized library on iOS. Download Hive and turn scattered references into a library you can find again. Privacy Policy: https://hive.ink/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Muse Pro4 screens
Hive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hive at 79% against Muse Pro's 0%. Hive also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.4) and ratings volume (37 vs 10). Muse Pro's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Muse Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per 7 days and Hive sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hive holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 37 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Muse Pro's written reviews are positive against 79% of Hive's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Muse Pro ships an update every 2 days, Hive every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Muse Pro versus Hive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMuse ProHive
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.4 (10 ratings)4.9 (37 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews78.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1037 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size219 MB177 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperStyleOf易泓 刘

Customer experience

Muse Pro

All ratings10 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Hive

All ratings37 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral2.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews103 reviews
Positive78.6%
Neutral9.7%
Negative11.7%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Muse Pro

Subscriptions2
  • Muse Pro Weekly7 Days trial$8.997 Days
  • Muse Pro Monthly1 Month trial$29.991 Month
3 purchases

Hive

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Annually7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$39.99

Questions

Is Muse Pro free?
Muse Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hive free?
Hive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Muse Pro or Hive?
Hive is rated higher. Muse Pro averages 3.4 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Hive averages 4.9 from 37 ratings.
Do Muse Pro or Hive have ads?
Neither Muse Pro nor Hive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Muse Pro or Hive?
Muse Pro ships an update every 2 days, and Hive every 4 days. Most recently, Muse Pro was updated on October 4, 2026 and Hive on October 30, 2026.

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