Comparison

ClawHive vs BTS Chatter

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

Head to head
About

ClawHive

Features
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ClawHive brings your OpenClaw and Hermes runtime agents to your iPhone. Pair once, then start focused conversations, manage your AI team, and return to active work wherever you are. BUILD YOUR AI TEAM Browse specialized agents by category, review their capabilities, and install the right experts to your connected runtime. CHAT WITH YOUR AGENTS Start sessions with synced agents, send text and images, and continue full conversation threads on mobile. Notifications can take you directly back to the right reply. DISCOVER SPECIALISTS Explore agents for engineering, research, design, marketing, finance, productivity, and more. ADD POWERFUL SKILLS Browse ClawHub skills, install new capabilities, and choose which skills are available to supported agents. CONNECT YOUR RUNTIME Pair ClawHive with the OpenClaw or Hermes plugin using a QR code or pairing code, then access your agents from your phone. ClawHive is a companion app. A compatible OpenClaw or Hermes runtime and the ClawHive plugin are required. Available agents, skills, and features depend on your connected runtime.

About

BTS Chatter

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Chatter - Your agents. Your tools. Your data. Chatter is the AI chat app we built for ourselves - because we wanted frontier-quality answers without handing our conversations to yet another data-hungry platform. Now it's yours too. Chatter runs on Ollama Cloud with zero data retention: your prompts and answers are processed, streamed back, and gone. Nothing stored server-side, nothing used for training. Just fast inference on powerful open models - and a native, lightweight app on iPhone, iPad, and Mac that stays out of your way. Private by design. No account, no sign-up, no login - enter your API key and start chatting. We collect nothing: no analytics, no tracking, no telemetry. Your chats, agents, and knowledge live on your devices and sync exclusively through your personal iCloud (Apple CloudKit), end-to-end within your own Apple ID. We couldn't read your data if we wanted to - and we don't want to. Build your own agents. Create assistants with their own personality, model, and toolset - a coding expert, a research companion, a home-automation operator. Each agent is exactly as capable (and as locked-down) as you decide. Give them tools with MCP. Connect any Model Context Protocol server - self-hosted on your LAN, over Tailscale, or anywhere else. Your agents can query your databases, control your smart home, or reach your internal APIs. Your infrastructure stays yours. Give them knowledge. Attach curated knowledge bases to any agent - import PDFs or Markdown, and your agent reads exactly the documents it needs, when it needs them. Watch them grow. Agents remember what matters: they keep their own notes about you and your projects across chats, and they can even write down reusable skills - procedures you teach them once and they follow forever. You stay in control: everything they learn is visible, editable, and deletable. Everywhere you are. One app for iOS and macOS, with your agents, chats, and knowledge synced privately through iCloud. No subscription. No middleman. No tracking. Chatter is a native client for your own Ollama Cloud account - bring your API key, and own your AI. **Requires an Ollama Cloud API key (ollama.com). Chatter connects directly to Ollama Cloud and to MCP servers you configure; we run no servers of our own.**

Screenshots

ClawHive4 screens
BTS Chatter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: BTS Chatter at 4 against ClawHive's 2. ClawHive's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
ClawHive versus BTS Chatter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClawHiveBTS Chatter
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Monthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size35 MB17 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperOptimalAI LimitedFabian Ackle

In-app purchases

None

ClawHive

No in-app purchases

None

BTS Chatter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ClawHive free?
ClawHive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BTS Chatter free?
BTS Chatter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ClawHive or BTS Chatter have ads?
Neither ClawHive nor BTS Chatter shows ads.

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