Hive vs Image Actions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
Image Actions
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
Hive ships an update every 3 days, Image Actions monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hive | Image Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.9 (37 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 78.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 37 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 174 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 易泓 刘 | Wesley de Groot |
In-app purchases
Hive
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Annually$19.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$34.99
Image Actions
No in-app purchases









