Even G1 vs Hearview
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Even G1
Manage your digital glasses and customize their HeadUp display. Set notifications, use voice commands for notes, get navigation assistance, and access teleprompting and real-time translation features.
- HeadUp display content management
- Notification display
- Voice-activated note-taking
- Navigation assistance
- Speech and presentation teleprompting
- Real-time voice translation
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The Even Realities app helps you connect and manage your digital glasses. In the dashboard, you can set the content for the HeadUp display of your glasses. Notifications: Display important notifications on your glasses. QuickNote: Quickly record ideas and important tasks using voice commands. Navigate: Assist with navigation. Teleprompt: Provide prompts for speeches and presentations. Translate: Offer real-time voice translation for conversations.
Hearview
This AI-powered tool provides instant, real-time subtitles and translation for speech and videos. It supports over 140 languages for recognition and translation, making communication accessible and barrier-free for various needs.
- Real-time speech recognition
- Live subtitles for videos
- Real-time translation
- Face-to-face text mode
- Supports 140+ languages
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Hearview — Live Captions & Real-Time Translation Hearview is an AI-powered communication app that turns speech into clear, readable text and translates conversations in real time. Whether you are talking face to face, watching a video, attending a meeting, or communicating across languages, Hearview helps you understand spoken content more easily. ◉ Real-Time Speech-to-Text See speech converted into clear, readable text in real time. With support for more than 140 languages, Hearview makes everyday conversations easier to follow. ◉ Real-Time Translation Recognize speech in more than 140 languages and translate it into more than 90 languages in real time. Ideal for multilingual conversations, meetings, classes, travel, and everyday communication. ◉ Live Captions for Videos Watch videos on your phone with automatically generated live captions. Follow spoken content even when official captions are unavailable. ◉ Face-to-Face Communication Type a message and flip the text toward the person sitting across from you—without turning your phone around. This mode is useful in quiet environments or whenever text-based communication is easier. Hearview is designed for people who are deaf or hard of hearing, as well as anyone who needs live captions, speech-to-text, real-time translation, or multilingual communication support. Download Hearview and make everyday communication clearer, easier, and more accessible. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy Policy: https://www.hearview.ai/policies/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Even G1 at 74 against Hearview's 16. Hearview's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Even G1 sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Hearview sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $59.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.7 for Even G1 against 3.6 for Hearview. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 74 and 16 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 53% of Even G1's written reviews are positive against 60% of Hearview's.
Even G1 ships an update fortnightly, Hearview every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Even G1 | Hearview |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (74 ratings) — better | 3.6 (16 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.6% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 74 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 317 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Even Realities Ltd. | Xiao-I Plus Inc. |
Customer experience
Even G1
Hearview
Bugs and requests
Even G1
Reported bugs
45 issues- Transcribing annotation disappearing
- Bluetooth connection unstable/fails
- Bluetooth connection drops
- App does not respond to touch/keyboard input
- Teleprompter frozen
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- Navigation shows different numbers in left/right eye
- App crashes
- Bluetooth cannot stay connected
- Bug fix is buggy
- Stuck in update loop
- Button responsiveness issues
- Dashboard not lining up correctly
- Heads up display comes on with minor movement
- App crashes on iPhone 16 Pro and iOS 18
- Touch button is useless/slow
- App crashes consistently
- Notification issues
- Spotify music not working when app is open
- QuickNote recording limited to 1 second
- Cannot reconnect glasses
- G1 glasses not working
- G2 not supported
- App opens but is blank
- Stocks not searching
- Notifications pushed to glasses when phone is active/unlocked
- Interface glitches with multiple notifications
- Fails to display notification when tapping sensor
- On-board map routing issues
- Glasses kill phone battery
- App doesn't work
- Translation issues
- AI lacks functionality
- Voice command issues
- Text message response issues
- No English to Arabic translation
- No support for G2
- Bluetooth issue not solved
- Minor and not substantial updates
- Software is very sluggish
- Minor updates
- No bug fixes
- No more languages
- App will be sunset
- No more updates
- ChatGPT stuck at 2023
Requested features
40 requests- Add Indonesian language
- Add more Asian languages
- Add Arabic language
- Improve teleprompter (prescription, auto-silence calls, font size, centering)
- Automatic language detection and translation
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- Button press to activate AI (without voice/touchbar)
- Head tilt control for notifications
- Social media integration
- Chinese interface
- Calendar widget for dashboard
- Customizable news sources/RSS feeds
- Linux shell over SSH
- Apple Watch control
- Furigana for Japanese translation
- Driving navigation mode
- Feedback/suggestion feature in app
- Full screen notes/teleprompter option
- Customizable font for notes/teleprompters
- Markdown support for notes/teleprompters
- More customizable touch controls (double/triple tap, hold)
- Ability to turn off touch bar controls
- Integration with Outlook/Google calendars
- Expert mode for news dashboard (custom RSS)
- Content preview via touch gesture for news
- Control from Apple Watch (initiate notes, translations, AI, navigation, silent mode)
- Crypto to stocks
- Control from cellular enabled Apple Watch
- Control from Apple Watch
- Adjustable dashboard content and font size
- Inquire about new software/pre-release versions
- Unlimited Translate Pro membership for pre-order customers
- More language options
- Respond to text messages
- Location-based weather updates
- Celsius to Fahrenheit conversion
- Voice command expansion (quick notes, notifications)
- Copy to clipboard button for translation/transcription
- Direct export button for translation/transcription
- Add Bitcoin to stocks
- Add crypto to stocks
Hearview
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Even G1
- translator_1_hours$4.99
- translator_5_hours$23.99
- translator_10_hours$44.99
Hearview
- Duration Pack Monthly$59.991 Month
- Duration Pack · 1 Hour$1.00
