Comparison

Hive vs DS Card

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

Head to head
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/

About

DS Card

Easily convert your markdown text or notes into visually appealing, long-form images. This tool preserves formatting and allows for quick sharing across social media platforms.

Highlights
  • Markdown text to image conversion
  • Preserves formatting
  • Multiple trendy themes
  • Splits long texts into multiple images
  • One-click image generation
Features
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Paste & Generate beautiful long Images from response Markdown text or Note app! No more worrying about copied text messing up the #*|- symbol format. With one click, process markdown text and generate beautiful long images by copying and pasting answers, eliminating the need for multiple manual screenshots! Multiple trendy themes designed with various templates. Supports splitting long texts into multiple small images with one click, making it convenient to share on twitter, RedNote, ins, and social platforms. Notice: We do not provide any AI functionality, you need to manually copy the response text into App.

Screenshots

Hive4 screens
DS Card4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Hive at 4.9 against DS Card's 4.0. Hive also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs weekly) and ratings volume (37 vs 8). DS Card's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 79%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Hive sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and DS Card sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. 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 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 37 and 8 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Hive's written reviews are positive against 91% of DS Card's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hive ships an update every 4 days, DS Card weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Hive versus DS Card: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHiveDS Card
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (37 ratings) — better4.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews91.3% of reviews — better
Number of ratings37 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size177 MB24 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer易泓 刘光翔 卓

Customer experience

Hive

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

DS Card

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive91.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative4.3%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Hive

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

DS Card

One-time3
  • Forever Pro$3.99
  • Upgrade Ultimate$4.99
  • Ultimate Pro$7.99

Questions

Is Hive free?
Hive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DS Card free?
DS Card is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hive or DS Card?
Hive is rated higher. Hive averages 4.9 out of 5 from 37 ratings, while DS Card averages 4.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Hive or DS Card have ads?
Neither Hive nor DS Card shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hive or DS Card?
Hive ships an update every 4 days, and DS Card weekly. Most recently, Hive was updated on October 27, 2026 and DS Card on October 23, 2026.

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