Nekt vs YapHive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nekt
Instantly exchange contact and social media information with new acquaintances using Bluetooth or QR codes. AI-powered scheduling helps find the best time and place to meet again, even integrating with your phone's calendar.
- Instant contact and social profile sharing via Bluetooth or QR code
- Selective sharing of personal or professional information
- AI-powered scheduling for finding meeting times and locations
- Phone calendar integration for availability checks
- App Clip for users without the app installed
- Lock screen widget for quick access
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Meet someone worth knowing? Nekt shares your contacts and socials instantly, then finds the best time and place to meet again. INSTANT CONTACT EXCHANGE Bump phones using Bluetooth to share your contact info and social profiles in one tap. Or scan a QR code if you prefer. No typing numbers, no searching usernames, no killing the moment. Your new contact is automatically saved to your phone. SHARE WHAT YOU WANT Keep personal and professional separate. Choose to share your personal info, work details, or both — you're always in control of what gets exchanged. AI-POWERED SCHEDULING Finding a time and place to meet shouldn't be harder than the meeting itself. Connect your phone calendar and Nekt automatically finds when you're both free. Say "lunch this week" or "drinks on Friday" and our AI suggests the best time, place, and activity. WORKS EVEN WITHOUT THE APP Your new contact doesn't have Nekt? No problem. They can scan your QR code and see your profile instantly through our App Clip — no download required. When they're ready, one tap installs the full app with their contact already saved. WHY DOWNLOAD THE APP? • Seamless Bluetooth bump — exchange contacts just by tapping phones together • Automatic contact saving — new connections go straight to your phone's contacts • Phone calendar integration — connect Apple or Google Calendar to find the time and place to meet • Lock screen widget — start exchanging with one tap, no unlock needed BUILT FOR REAL MOMENTS Conferences, meetups, parties, coffee shops — wherever good conversations happen, Nekt helps you keep them going. Because the best connections deserve more than a forgotten phone number.
YapHive
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YapHive is a private place to talk with the people you already know — a team, a club, a family, a training group, a crew. You get in by invitation, and that is the only way in. There are no public rooms, no strangers and no algorithm deciding what you see. HIVES A Hive is a private room. Nothing inside one is visible from outside it, and no Hive can see into another. In each Hive you wear a persona of your own: a name, a picture and a line about you that belong to that Hive alone. The same person can be "Sam" in one Hive and nobody at all in the next. YAPS A Yap is what you post — up to 500 characters, carrying four pictures or a video, a voice note, a poll. Reply to it, react to it, save the ones worth keeping. Address it to the whole Hive, or to a Swarm: a named group inside the Hive, so the five-a-side side of a club never has to mute the rest of it. CALENDAR A Yap can happen at a time. Give it a date and it becomes an event, with Going, Maybe and Can't underneath it and a roster of who answered what. Every event in the Hive lands on a shared calendar you can read by month, by week or by day. CHAT One to one or in a group, with pictures and voice notes, inside the Hive where you know each other. FEEDBACK SWARM Every Hive has a room for saying what's working and what isn't. Opening it puts you in it: you read what everybody else has said and add your own, filed under a category and answered in replies underneath, where it does not sink out of sight. FOR THE PEOPLE WHO RUN ONE Invite codes with a use count and an expiry. A noticeboard with read receipts. Roles, a member directory, and a handover. Reports from members, triaged in the app. QUIET BY DESIGN No advertising. No analytics. No tracking. Nothing about you is sold, because there is nobody to sell it to. YapHive is in English and German, and it follows the language on your account to every device you sign in on. YapHive is invitation-only: you will need a code from a Hive that has asked you to join. Minimum age 16. Privacy policy: https://yaphive.com/privacy Terms of use: https://yaphive.com/terms
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Verdict
Nekt and YapHive are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Nekt ships an update every 2 days, YapHive every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Nekt | YapHive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 3 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alexander Weingart | Vorster Consulting GmbH |
In-app purchases
Nekt
No in-app purchases
YapHive
No in-app purchases







