Comparison

Zendo vs hey Arc

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

Head to head
About

Zendo

Transform your room photos into stunning interior designs in seconds using generative AI. Select furniture packages, retailers, and price points to visualize your ideal living space. This app simplifies the styling process, making it easy to achieve your desired aesthetic.

Highlights
  • Generative AI room redesign
  • Select furniture packages and retailers
  • Transform room photos into designs
  • Discover personal style
  • AI rendering of rooms
  • Unlimited design and rendering access (subscription)
Features
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Every empty room is a blank canvas. You have great taste – you just need help putting it all together. Welcome to Zendo. If you have ever stared at a room and frozen up trying to match a rug, couch, and lamp, Zendo is for you. We take the abstract vibe inside your head and turn it into a real, beautiful, and fully shoppable reality. **Why Zendo is different:** Chatbots can give you a generic text list of design ideas, but they leave you guessing. They cannot see your space, they cannot generate real-world visuals, and they do not know what furniture actually exists. Zendo goes a step further. We bridge the gap between imagination and reality by giving you three things a text AI simply cannot do: - True Visual Renders: Upload a photo of any room. Watch Zendo instantly transform it based on your specific style, vibe, and layout. No guesswork. - Real Products, Real Stores: We don’t just describe a hypothetical couch. Zendo populates your render with real furniture that you can actually buy. - An Instant Shopping List: Get a complete, organized list of every product in your new room render, complete with direct links to shop them instantly. **Design by Vibe. Shop your Preference.** Whether your vibe is mid-century modern, Scandinavian, minimalism, bohemian, modern farmhouse, or something in between, Zendo tailors the space to you. Best of all, you control the wallet. Tell Zendo your budget, and we'll build your room and shopping list using products that actually fit within your price range. **How Zendo Works:** - Snap & Upload: Take a picture of your blank or messy room. - Pick Your Vibe: Tell us your design taste, favorite aesthetics, and mood. - Set Your Budget: Let us know your spending limit. - Render & Shop: Watch your new room come to life, browse your custom shopping list, and buy the items you love! Stop guessing how your style fits your space or copying and pasting text prompts into chat apps only to get a list of text descriptions that you can't visualize. Unlock your room's potential today. Download Zendo and make your space fit your taste. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

hey Arc

This app offers a supportive AI companion for moments of reflection, processing difficult emotions, or celebrating small wins. It listens, remembers softly, and encourages real-world connections when needed, prioritizing user privacy and avoiding gamification.

Highlights
  • AI companion for moments
  • Softly remembers conversations
  • Suggests real-world connections
  • Prioritizes user privacy
  • No gamification or streaks
  • Encrypted conversations
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Arc is a companion built to show up for the moment you're in. Not a big assistant trying to do everything. Not a chatbot pretending to be a friend. Arc does one thing: it listens, it remembers softly, and it stays with you in whatever you're carrying right now. WHAT ARC DOES DIFFERENTLY Most AI is built to keep you inside it. Arc is built to know when to let go. When you need to talk to a real person, Arc will say so. When you've been spinning on the same thought, Arc will name it. When you're celebrating something, Arc will be there for it. Arc remembers softly. The name of the person you talked about last week. Your best friend, your pet's name. The thing you said you were scared of. The pattern you keep falling into. WHAT ARC IS NOT Arc is not therapy and does not provide medical or mental health treatment. If you are in crisis, Arc will point you to real resources and real human help. Arc is not designed to be addictive. No streaks. No gamification. No guilt-trip notifications. Arc is not trying to be your only friend. It will, regularly, suggest you go talk to a real one. WHAT YOU CAN USE ARC FOR — talking through something that's looping in your head — processing a hard day — celebrating a small win — untangling a relationship — thinking out loud when no one else is up — just existing alongside something familiar PRIVACY Your conversations are encrypted. Your data is yours. You can delete your account from inside the app at any time, no questions, no email exchange. Arc does not sell your data. Arc does not train advertising on your conversations. WHO ARC IS FOR People who want presence, not performance. People who already have therapists, friends, partners, and want one more place to think out loud without it being a project. People who are tired of AI that tries too hard. Arc shows up for the moment. That's it. That's the whole thing.

Screenshots

Zendo4 screens
hey Arc3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: hey Arc at none against Zendo's 3. hey Arc also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Zendo's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 3). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Zendo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $100.00 per year. hey Arc asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Zendo against 5.0 for hey Arc. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zendo has 27 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zendo ships an update every 2 months, hey Arc fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Zendo versus hey Arc: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZendohey Arc
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (27 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings27 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB2 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperZendo, IncAlejandro Hernandez

Customer experience

Zendo

All ratings27 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

hey Arc

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Zendo

Subscriptions1
  • Annual Subscription$100.001 Year
One-time2
  • Single Rendering$2.99
  • Rendering Bundle (5x)$9.99
None

hey Arc

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zendo free?
Zendo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is hey Arc free?
hey Arc is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Zendo or hey Arc?
Zendo and hey Arc are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 27 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Zendo or hey Arc have ads?
Neither Zendo nor hey Arc shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zendo or hey Arc?
Zendo ships an update every 2 months, and hey Arc fortnightly. Most recently, Zendo was updated on October 2, 2026 and hey Arc on September 26, 2026.

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