Hive Learning vs Octopus Authenticator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hive Learning
This application enables teams and organizations to share and create digital learning resources. It facilitates high performance by providing access to knowledge anytime, anywhere. It is designed for collaborative learning environments.
- Share digital resources
- Build learning content
- Enable high performance
- Access anytime, anywhere
- Team and organization focused
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Hive Learning is the learning app for teams and organisations, allowing groups to share and build digital resources that enable high performance anywhere anytime
Octopus Authenticator
This app eliminates the need for passwords, offering a seamless and consistent login experience for users throughout their workday. Organizations benefit from enhanced security and control over credentials for various accounts and applications.
- Passwordless login
- Seamless user experience
- High assurance security
- Credential control
- Cross-domain authentication
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With Secret Double Octopus, users no longer need to manage passwords and can enjoy a consistent seamless login experience throughout their work day. Organizations gain the benefits of high assurance and credential control across domain accounts, VPN, cloud applications and legacy apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hive Learning at 67% against Octopus Authenticator's 22%. Hive Learning also leads on rating (2.7 vs 2.4) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Octopus Authenticator's advantage is ratings volume (159 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Hive Learning holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 2.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Octopus Authenticator has 159 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Hive Learning's written reviews are positive against 22% of Octopus Authenticator's.
Hive Learning ships an update fortnightly, Octopus Authenticator every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hive Learning | Octopus Authenticator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) — better | 2.4 (159 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 22.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 159 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hive Learning Limited | Secret Double Octopus |
Customer experience
Hive Learning
Octopus Authenticator
Bugs and requests
Hive Learning
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Octopus Authenticator
Reported bugs
19 issues- Bluetooth notification impossible to get rid of
- App pops up asking for Bluetooth access even when not needed
- Update wiped out all account info
- Constant issues: connection problems, app locks up, pings but won't respond
- Apple Watch app hangs 90% of the time
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- Psychotic notification sound
- Apple Watch notification only works sometimes
- App crashes on launch
- Push notifications for Apple Watch broken for months
- Cannot accept request from phone Lock Screen
- Apple Watch component stuck at 'Loading...'
- Must manually launch Watch app before prompt
- Apple Watch app does not work
- Clicking notification does not open app
- Not receiving welcome email or setup email
- Apple Watch app has never worked
- App will not send authentication to new phone
- No Apple Watch app
- App crashes immediately on startup after OS update
Requested features
12 requests- Fix Bluetooth notification issue
- Allow opting out of Bluetooth notifications
- Improve Apple Watch app reliability
- Allow authentication from notification
- Fix watch app hanging issue
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- Fix push notifications for Apple Watch
- Allow accepting requests from phone Lock Screen
- Set time limit for facial recognition
- Provide instructions for new phone registration
- Allow users to supply their email address for setup
- Fix app crashes on launch
- Fix app not opening after OS updates
In-app purchases
Hive Learning
No in-app purchases
Octopus Authenticator
No in-app purchases
Questions
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