Comparison

Hive vs Image Actions

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

Image Actions

Features
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Image Actions is a fast, simple way to transform your images using Shortcuts. Create powerful image workflows you can run with a tap, a widget, or an automation. Instead of opening an editor every time, let Image Actions handle the repetitive work for you. Use Image Actions to change the following EXIF properties of your photos: - Add a user comment to a photo - Read a user comment from a photo - Remove a user comment from a photo - Add a location tag to a photo - Read a location tag from a photo - Remove a location tag from a photo - Check if a photo has a location tag - Add a location tag to a photo based on your current location - Add a location tag to a photo based on the latitude and longitude of a location - Mark a photo as screenshot Designed for Shortcuts Image Actions is built specifically to work inside Apples Shortcuts app. Add its actions to your existing shortcuts or build new ones from scratch. Once set up, you can run your image flows from: - The Shortcuts app - Share sheet - Automations, such as after taking a photo or saving a file Examples of what you can automate - After taking a screenshot, add a location tag and save it to a specific folder - Read location data from a photo and add it to the filename Why use Image Actions - Save time on repetitive edits - Keep full control by defining your own workflows - Avoid large file sizes when sharing by mail or chat - Get consistent results across all your images Image Actions turns simple Shortcuts into powerful tools for managing your images, so you spend less time editing and more time creating and sharing.

Screenshots

Hive4 screens
Image Actions2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Hive at Free against Image Actions's $3.99. Hive also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). Image Actions's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Hive is free to download; Image Actions costs $3.99 up front. Hive sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Image Actions asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hive ships an update every 3 days, Image Actions monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Hive versus Image Actions: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHiveImage Actions
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.9 (37 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings37 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size174 MB21 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developer易泓 刘Wesley de Groot

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Hive

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Annually$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$34.99
None

Image Actions

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hive free?
Hive is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Image Actions free?
Image Actions costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Hive or Image Actions have ads?
Neither Hive nor Image Actions shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hive or Image Actions?
Hive ships an update every 3 days, and Image Actions monthly. Most recently, Hive was updated on October 17, 2026 and Image Actions on October 8, 2026.

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