Qi Card Note vs Hive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Qi Card Note
Transform text into visually appealing images for social media. Easily create quote cards, share long passages, and customize designs with various templates and styles. Perfect for enhancing your online presence with beautifully formatted content.
- Text to image conversion
- Customizable card designs
- Multiple stylish templates
- Content splitting for social media
- Content library for pre-editing
- Automatic formatting
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Turn your text into beautifully designed images. Create poetic quotes, showcase famous sayings, or share long passages in style. Customize cover images, display personal info, and tailor card designs—with tons of stylish templates to switch between. Perfect for sharing on all your favorite social platforms! [Main Features] - Input content and automatically format it to generate beautiful card images. - The content supports title, long text, cover image, time, word count, author, QR code, etc. - Long text supports splitting into multiple images in proportion, suitable for posting on various social media. - There are multiple card templates to choose from, and custom styles are supported, such as colors, spacing, decorations, backgrounds, shadow textures, material textures, etc. - The content library function allows pre-editing content for quick import into templates. [Automatic renewal service] 1. Service: Yearly VIP, Monthly VIP. 2. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renew within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user`s Account Settings after purchase. 3. as for Apple mobile phone users, you can manually open the Apple mobile phone Settings - > enter iTunes Store and App Store - > click Apple ID, select view Apple ID, enter the account settings page, click subscription, select 'Qi Card Note' continuous subscription, and cancel subscriptions to end it. 4. Privacy policy: http://sapp.qiqi1996.com/w/qi-card-note/agreement/privacy?locale=en 5. Service Agreement: http://sapp.qiqi1996.com/w/qi-card-note/agreement/service?locale=en 6. Terms of Use(EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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.
- Organize creative assets
- Smart photo organizer
- Integrated video player
- Multiple save methods
- Web capture
- Multi-level folder system
- Advanced search and filter
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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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Hive at every 3 days against Qi Card Note's every 9 days. Qi Card Note's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.0). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Qi Card Note sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month 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.
Qi Card Note ships an update every 9 days, Hive every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Qi Card Note | Hive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.9 (37 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 78.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 37 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 135 MB | 174 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 奇奇 郭 | 易泓 刘 |
Customer experience
Qi Card Note
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In-app purchases
Qi Card Note
- Monthly VIP7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Yearly VIP7 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Lifetime VIP$49.99
Hive
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Annually$19.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$34.99









