HippoCam vs Cue
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HippoCam
This app helps you remember where you've stored items by letting you snap photos, add labels, and search them later. It offers features like Siri integration, text detection, location tagging, and offline access for easy retrieval of your belongings.
- Snap photos of items
- Add labels and tags
- Siri integration for quick access
- Detect text in images
- Attach current location
- Offline access and privacy
- Search by labels, tags, and text
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HippoCam is a memory tool that helps you remember where you put things — the small but important stuff like your favorite pen, a spare charger, or those old photo albums. Just snap a photo, add a label, and let HippoCam do the remembering for you. What you can do with HippoCam: - Snap a photo of anything you want to remember - Add a label to find it later - Ask Siri "Hey, Siri show my item in HippoCam" and it'll show your item instantly - Shortcuts support for accessing items or importing images via Share Sheet - Detect text in the image — automatically or on demand - Tag with extra details or context - Attach the current location - Add personal notes to each memory - Use Spotlight or Smart Search to find memories by labels, tags, notes, and detected text inside photos - Import images from anywhere. Your Photo Library, Files, Pasteboard or Share Sheet. It also autofills metadata: location, date and caption - Access all memories as folders in the Files app - Each memory is saved with readable metadata and images - Backup and restore with simple, clear instructions No more digging through drawers or retracing your steps. With HippoCam, everything is right where you left it. Private. Offline. Yours. No tracking. No ads.
Cue
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Somebody always ends up running the screen. At a conference, a service, a quiz night, a wedding — someone at the back is making the next thing appear. Cue is built for that person. Your iPad becomes the whole booth — the job that used to take a media server, a laptop at the back, and an operator manual. Build the show from photos, videos, PDFs, song lyrics, and timers, plug into a projector or TV (or AirPlay to it), and drive everything live. The audience sees one clean, composed picture. You see your library, a preview, and a big GO button. • Three layers, composed live. A background, words over it, a countdown on top. Each switches on its own, so changing the slide never kills the video behind it. • Cue mode. Stage the next slide, background, and timer, then commit everything at once with GO. The audience never sees you working. • Scenes. Save a full look — layers, positions, everything — and bring it back in one tap. • Songs that behave. Paste lyrics, get slides. Cue points jump straight to the chorus, from a tap or a number key. • Timers and scoreboards. Countdowns, count-to-time, clocks, and live scores, styled to match and layered over anything. • Instant switching. Staged videos pre-roll and images pre-warm, so GO lands on the first frame, not a black flash. Cue works offline and needs no account. Your shows and media stay on your device. It's free to use with a small watermark on the output; Cue Pro removes it with a monthly or yearly plan (3-day free trial) or a one-time lifetime purchase. Made for iPad first. Fits in your pocket on iPhone. Privacy Policy: https://cuepresenter.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://cuepresenter.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cue at every 4 days against HippoCam's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. HippoCam sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Cue sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
HippoCam ships an update every 3 weeks, Cue every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HippoCam | Cue |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AI Garden Ltd | Joseph Regalado Siscar |
In-app purchases
HippoCam
- Buy me a Tea$1.99
- Premium Memories$2.99
Cue
- Cue Pro Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Cue Pro Yearly3 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Cue Pro Lifetime$29.99









