Zendo vs hey Arc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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)
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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/
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Zendo ships an update every 2 months, hey Arc fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zendo | hey Arc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (27 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Zendo, Inc | Alejandro Hernandez |
Customer experience
Zendo
hey Arc
In-app purchases
Zendo
- Annual Subscription$100.001 Year
- Single Rendering$2.99
- Rendering Bundle (5x)$9.99
hey Arc
No in-app purchases









