Comparison

Qi Card Note vs Hive

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Text to image conversion
  • Customizable card designs
  • Multiple stylish templates
  • Content splitting for social media
  • Content library for pre-editing
  • Automatic formatting
Features
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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/

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

Qi Card Note4 screens
Hive4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Qi Card Note versus Hive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQi Card NoteHive
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.9 (37 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews78.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—37 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size135 MB174 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer奇奇 郭易泓 刘

Customer experience

Qi Card Note

Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%

Hive

All ratings37 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral2.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews102 reviews
Positive78.4%
Neutral9.8%
Negative11.8%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Qi Card Note

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly VIP7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly VIP7 Days trial$6.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime VIP$49.99
3 purchases

Hive

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Annually$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$34.99

Questions

Is Qi Card Note free?
Qi Card Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hive free?
Hive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Qi Card Note or Hive have ads?
Neither Qi Card Note nor Hive shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Qi Card Note or Hive?
Qi Card Note ships an update every 9 days, and Hive every 3 days. Most recently, Qi Card Note was updated on September 30, 2026 and Hive on October 24, 2026.

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