Macro App vs HiveMind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Macro App
This workspace app integrates email, messaging, notes, tasks, PDF viewing, diagram creation, file storage, and code editing. It also features LLMs that can access context from all your content.
- Unified workspace
- Email and messaging
- Notes and task management
- PDF and diagram tools
- File storage
- Code editor
- LLM integration
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Macro is a workspace offering email, messaging, notes, tasks, pdf, diagrams, file storage, and code-editing—all alongside LLMs that have context on everything you touch.
HiveMind
A private notebook with an AI companion and a social space for sharing notes, photos, and videos with friends. Organize your thoughts, create short films, and communicate via messages and calls. AI features are optional and controllable.
- Private note-taking with dictation and Scribe recordings
- Add photos and videos as shareable Moments
- AI companion for querying saved information
- Create short films (Recollections) with narration
- Organize content in folders
- Share content with custom audiences or friends
- Direct and group messaging with voice/video calls
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Remember what matters. Share only what you choose. HiveMind is a private notebook with an optional AI companion, your Mind, and a social space for you and your friends, the Hive. YOUR MIND • Write thoughts, or speak them with dictation and Scribe recordings • Add photos and videos as Moments, and choose who can see each one • Ask your Mind about what you've saved, and see what it looked at to answer • Turn Moments into short films, called Recollections, with narration and music • Organize everything in folders THE HIVE • Share a thought with only you, your friends, a custom audience or everyone • Reply, mention friends and like posts • Send direct and group messages • Make voice and video calls, including while HiveMind is in the background • Report content and block accounts from any post, profile, message or call AI YOU CONTROL AI is off until you turn it on. Before anything is sent, HiveMind names each provider and what it receives: the chat model you pick (OpenAI, Anthropic or Google), Google to describe photos and videos, OpenAI for search, ElevenLabs for speech and narration, and fal for film clips. You can use your own API keys instead. Recognizing people in your Moments is a separate choice and uses AWS Rekognition. Anything your Mind writes is labeled, and anything that affects other people waits for your approval. PLAN & CREDITS New accounts get a one-time AI starter. HiveMind Basic includes 5,000 AI credits a month, and credit packs add more when you need them. The subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in Settings → your name → Subscriptions. YOUR DATA Your private content stays private unless you share it. Export your data or delete your account at any time in Settings → Account. HiveMind is for people 18 and over in the United States. AI answers can be wrong. Check important information, and don't treat AI answers as medical, legal or financial advice. Terms of Use: https://joinhivemind.app/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://joinhivemind.app/legal/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HiveMind at 5.0 against Macro App's 4.0. HiveMind also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). Macro App's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HiveMind holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 3 respectively.
Macro App ships an update every 3 weeks, HiveMind every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Macro App | HiveMind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Macro | Hivemind Research, Inc. |
Customer experience
Macro App
HiveMind
In-app purchases
Macro App
No in-app purchases
HiveMind
No in-app purchases
