Free · No phone number · No ads
AI features use credits, and you get 100 free every month.
iPhone: soonNo download needed: Hive runs right in your browser, on your laptop for example, and can be installed as a web app. Here’s how
No password, no ads, no phone number.
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Compared
A selection of features, not a complete comparison. Where Hive falls short, it says so too.
| Feature | Hive | Telegram | Signal | Threema | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI in the chat | |||||
| Create AI images in the chat | yes15 models, paid with credits | partlywith Meta AI, only in some countries | noonly through third-party bots | no | no |
| Create AI videos in the chat | yes7 models, paid with credits | partlyonly animates AI images, in some countries | no | no | no |
| AI models from several makers | yes39 models from 15 makers | nobuilt in: Meta AI only | noonly through third-party bots | no | no |
| Translate messages | yes13 languages with credits, included from Plus up to a monthly limit | yesfree, on the device, languages depend on the device | yessingle messages free, whole chats with Premium | no | no |
| Voice messages as text | yespaid with credits | yesfree, languages depend on the device | yesunlimited only with Premium | no | no |
| Summarise chats with AI | yespaid with credits | partlyunread messages, only in some countries | partlyonly long channel posts | no | no |
| Chats and calls | |||||
| Several chats with the same person | yesfree up to 4 per person, unlimited from Plus | no | partlyseveral Secret Chats, each on one device only | no | no |
| Podcast from a call | yesfrom one-to-one calls, up to 95 minutes | no | partlyonly recordings in groups and channels | no | no |
| Group video calls | yesfree up to 4 people, up to 50 with Studio, credits from 5 cameras | yesup to 32 people | yesgroup calls up to 200, video chats larger | yesup to 75 people | yesup to 16 people |
| Privacy | |||||
| End-to-end encrypted one-to-one chat from the first contact | yesthe “Private” chat with every new contact, once you both have Secret Chat | yes | noyou start Secret Chats yourself | yes | yes |
| One-to-one chats always end-to-end encrypted | nonot “With AI”, so AI works there | yes | noonly Secret Chats, switched on by you | yes | yes |
| Group chats end-to-end encrypted | nowith AI features instead | yes | no | yes | yes |
| Sign up without a phone number | yeswith email | no | no | partlyAndroid only and still in testing, one-time fee | yesrandom Threema ID |
| No ads | yesno third-party ads | noads in the Updates tab, off with a subscription in Europe | noads in channels, bots and search, off with Premium | yes | yes |
| App source code open | no | no | yesapps open, server not | yes | yes |
| Devices and price | |||||
| Apps in the App Store and on Google Play | partlyAndroid on Google Play, iPhone soon | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| In the browser without a phone | yes | partlyphone needed to link | yes | nono browser version | nobrowser only with a linked phone |
| Free to use | yesAI paid with credits, 100 credits free every month | yes | yesPremium optional | yes | noone-time purchase |
yespartlyno
About Hive: AI costs credits, and the price is on the button before you press it. On Free, AI images, AI videos and podcasts carry a small Hive mark. Up to 4, 12, 25 or 50 people, depending on your plan. Up to 4 cameras at once are free.
As of . Based on the providers' official help pages and announcements, free version in each case. It can differ in other countries and versions.
Built in means: in the app itself, not through third-party bots. Several chats with the same person means: separate one-to-one chats, not groups and not topics in groups. Ads means: advertisements or sponsored content from third parties.
WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and Threema are trademarks of their respective owners. Hive is not affiliated with them. Something no longer right? Write to us at hey@typhora.group.
About Hive
Hive is an attempt to build a new kind of super app: rethought from the ground up, as a tool to move through the internet with for the next 20 years. The question behind it is always the same: which way of using it is truly best for people, and what gets you to the result fastest?
Because one person builds Hive, it can change and grow quickly. Whatever is new in AI keeps coming straight into the app.
“I hate using 20 tools to reach one goal and sending everything back and forth across five messengers along the way. Hive is an attempt to bring it all together.”
Henny, builds Hive
If you pay for a pro plan with several AI providers, you never use any of them fully and pay too much overall. In Hive you only pay for what you actually use, and you have every model in one interface, from dictation to profile pictures.
Hive gets better step by step, together with the people who use it. Feedback goes straight to the person who builds Hive, with one button in the app. Communities where the project grows together are on the roadmap.
Goals, not finished features yet:
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AI in the chat
The big image and video models are built in, from Nano Banana to Veo, plus songs with vocals and graphics for posts, stories, logos and posters. You describe what you want to see, and the result lands right in the chat. In an empty chat just for you, too. Or press and hold a message and turn it into an image, a video, a song or a meme.
A bee on a sunflower, soft morning light
Nano Banana Pro·27 credits
Nano Banana 2
OpenAI Image 2.5
Flux 2 Pro
Seedream V4.5A bee flies in slow motion over a sunflower field, golden light
Veo 3.1 Lite·72 creditsSeven video models are built in, from Veo to Kling. You describe the scene, and you send the finished clip to the chat with one tap.
Fifteen models, from 1 to 27 credits per image. Nano Banana, Flux, Seedream, Ideogram. Each one shows a sample and how long it takes.
Seven models up to Seedance 2.5 and Veo with sound. Send the finished clip to the chat with one tap.
Songs with vocals from your style and lyrics, from 7 credits per song. The AI writes the lyrics if you like.
A chat you have not opened in two weeks, in a few lines. Or only the messages you pick.
Be there in ten minutes, please bring the key.
Read aloud·1.72 creditsAny message as audio, four voices or your own, adjustable speed.
Almost there, the train was late. Shall I pick up some bread?
A voice note you cannot listen to right now, you simply read.
In the AI panel and when you create images, videos or songs, the price is on the button before you press it. Talking is free and stays free: text, voice notes, calls. There is no AI in Secret Chats. Google's models, Nano Banana and Veo, are for ages 18 and over.
Credits
Other apps call them tokens. In Hive they're called credits, and they pay for the AI extras: 1 credit is 1 cent.
Every month you get 100 credits worth €1 for free. With Plus, Pro or Studio it's 500, 1,200 or 4,000, depending on the plan. Whatever is left at the end of the month expires.
Need more? Buy a pack: 500 for €5, 1,500 for €14 or 5,000 for €47. Credits you buy never expire, and Hive always uses your monthly credits first.
Every use of AI costs us money at the provider. This way you only pay for what you actually use, and you don't need an expensive subscription.
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Translate
The best way to learn a language is with the person you already write to every day. Open the AI panel on a message, pick your language, and you see both: the original and the translation. Thirteen languages, from Korean to Arabic.
이번 주말에 시간 있어?
Translate·0.02 creditsAre you free this weekend?
Frequencies
Several chats with the same person. Every new contact starts with two: “Private” is end-to-end encrypted and has no AI, “With AI” has all the AI features. You add more, say for a project or for planning the trip in October, and choose each time: Private or With AI.
No more searching through one endless thread. You close one room and the other stays where it was.
On Free you get up to four chats per person, from Plus as many as you like.
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Podcast
Lena and Jonas are on a call. Each side records itself, then Hive puts both tracks together into one episode.
On Free it carries a Hive mark, from Plus it does not.
Privacy
You can turn a one-to-one chat into a Secret Chat whenever you like: end-to-end encrypted, with text, photos, videos, voice messages and files, and on the server it only ever sits encrypted. Your key stays on your device, and you can back it up with a recovery code.
Shall we meet at eight?
Shall we meet at eight?
We don't read your chats and don't analyse them.
Your data
Honest and without fine print: what Hive stores, who can see what, and what we never do.
Just an email address. No phone number and no access to your address book. Name, username and profile picture are optional, and others can't see your email address.
No. We don't read along and don't analyse anything. Only if someone reports something does a person look at exactly that content. If you want to write end-to-end encrypted, use a Secret Chat: then nobody but the two of you can read along, not even us, and the same goes for photos, videos, voice messages and files. One-to-one calls are always end-to-end encrypted.
AI only runs when you trigger it, and only after you've agreed. Then exactly that content goes to the provider of the model, such as Anthropic, OpenAI or Google. They don't see your IP address. Content from Secret Chats never goes to an AI.
The database and files are at Cloudflare in data centres in Western Europe. Hive is run from Cologne, so the GDPR applies.
Nobody. No ads, no trackers, no selling of data, and Hive doesn't train AI on your chats. Hive lives on plans and credits.
Yes. You delete your own messages for everyone, and disappearing messages expire on their own. If you delete your account with “Delete everything”, your messages also disappear for the others. We'll send you a copy of your data on request.
Only the two you need to sign in. No advertising or analytics cookies, which is why there's no cookie banner. We count visits only as daily totals, without a cookie and without your IP address.
Everything in detail, with every service provider and every time limit: Privacy policy
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Features
Everything here is built in and running. No announcements.
One to one with voice or video, end-to-end encrypted, with screen sharing too. Up to 4, 12, 25 or 50 people, depending on your plan. Up to 4 cameras at once are free. Group calls run through a relay server and are not end-to-end encrypted.
Set a timer and messages delete themselves. Or let a one-to-one chat wipe itself at a set time, once you both agree.
You can always delete your own messages. In one-to-one chats you ask the other person to delete theirs, and they decide.
Photos, videos, files, PDFs and location. Voice messages with a waveform and up to four times speed. Stored in Western Europe, and when a message goes, we delete its media too.
People find you by email or username. And you set whether anyone can search for you at all.
Ten colour themes, a separate colour per chat, five text sizes, light and dark. The app looks the way you want.
Also: empty chats just for you, for notes, files or as an AI chat, groups, reactions, memes from your own photos or AI images, stickers from your photos, replies, forwarding, read receipts (switchable per chat), archive, mute, lock the app and single chats with a PIN, block, report, export a chat as a text file, delete your account with a choice. The app is available in 13 languages, like this website.
Roadmap
What just shipped, what comes next and what is planned. We don't promise dates.
Your storage as its own space, with all your media at a glance.
Open the PIN lock in the apps with your face or fingerprint too.
Your photos and pictures from the chat become stickers: Hive cuts them out, they appear in the chat without a bubble, and you send them from your collection with one tap.
Hive starts in your device's language and asks at the beginning which one you want. Then it walks you briefly through the most important settings.
Up to 250 MB, 5 GB, 20 GB or 50 GB per file depending on your plan, right in the chat.
Find people with a search that's always there. Later you'll find groups and communities there too.
Have a text read aloud by one of four AI voices, slower or faster, or in your own voice: for that, you read aloud for 15 to 30 seconds once. Every file is marked “Read aloud with AI”.
Social media post, story, logo or poster with readable text in the image. From Plus you can cut them out: background removed, as a PNG with transparency.
Press and hold a message and turn it into an image, a video, a song or a meme. A picture becomes a new image, a video or a meme, or the AI describes it. The result arrives as a reply to the message.
Songs from a style description and lyrics, with vocals: affordable with MiniMax Music 2.0 or top quality with ElevenLabs Music. The AI writes the lyrics if you like, even from the latest messages in a chat.
One tap, and a text model turns your idea into a precise description for an image, a video or music.
Text at the top and bottom of your own photo or an AI image, with a suggestion from the AI if you like. The meme is made on your device.
You choose whether others can find you by your username, your exact email address or your name, or not at all. You also get a QR code with a profile key: anyone you give it to can send you a request.
Lock the app and single chats with a PIN. Locked chats disappear from the list, for a person with all frequencies, and their notifications show neither name nor content. The PIN stays on your device.
Read your Secret Chats in the browser or on a new phone without a recovery code: the new device shows a QR code, your phone scans it and passes the key on encrypted. Our server never sees it.
The app now comes in every language of this website and starts in your device’s language. Emails and notifications are in German or English for now.
Every new contact has two chats from the start: “Private”, end-to-end encrypted and without AI, and “With AI” with all the AI features. For every further chat you choose which kind it should be.
All end-to-end encrypted, file name and file type included. The server only holds unreadable data.
Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Mistral, Qwen, Kimi and Llama in one chat. One model per frequency, switchable any time, and you only pay for what you use.
Instead of just “My notes”, you create your own chats just for you, with a name, deletable and with several frequencies. You'll find them under “New chat”.
A username like the ones you know from other apps, so others can find you.
Make a long text or a dictation more polite, shorter, more casual or error-free with one tap before sending. You'll find it behind the + next to the input field.
In the apps, Hive creates the key on its own at first launch. If you want to write to someone encrypted, you no longer have to wait until they've turned on Secret Chat.
Hive is now an app on Google Play, in 40 countries. The iPhone app is coming soon.
Transform your own video with a prompt, extend it, or use it as a template for a new clip. Style, light and objects change, the motion stays.
Your photos as a reference for AI images, videos from a start and end frame, and higher resolution where the model supports it.
Zoom into any image with the scroll wheel, a double tap or two fingers. Saving now works right from your AI images too.
Google's affordable video model is back in the lineup, now with shorter clips and Full HD too.
Every charge, purchase and refund, like a bank statement, plus your subscription's next payment.
One button in the app: bugs, ideas and praise go straight to the person who builds Hive.
Up to 4, 12, 25 or 50 people, depending on your plan. Up to 4 cameras at once are free.
More storage and more AI, billed monthly or yearly. And credit packs that never expire.
250 MB free, 50, 100 or 500 GB with Plus, Pro or Studio.
On Free you get up to four chats per person, from Plus as many as you like.
From Plus, no mark on podcasts, AI images and AI videos. On Free, Hive adds a small mark.
15 image models and 7 video models, and you choose the aspect ratio.
Scan a Hive QR code with your regular camera and the app opens right away instead of the browser.
Several profiles in one account, each with its own picture, name and bio. When you get a contact request, you choose which one accepts it.
Songs with your own voice or from uploaded videos and audio.
All parts of the Studio work together.
Search for animated GIFs and send them straight to the chat.
Open, fill in (with AI too) and sign PDFs. Scan letters and let the AI read them.
Public groups you can find and join, also near you, later with a feed. That's where we'll develop Hive together. You can also make a chat public, so others join and read along.
Deals on plans and credit packs.
A wallet in every account, with the keys on your device. Send to contacts right in the chat and swap on decentralized exchanges.
The order is our plan, not a promise. Whatever ships moves up to "New".
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Why Hive
You are the customer, not the product.
There is no corporation and no investor behind Hive. There are no ads, we sell no data, and Hive trains no AI on your chats. If you need more storage or more AI, you pay a small amount for it. That keeps it clear who the customer is here: you.
At Hive, AI sits between two people: where a message has to get from one language into another, where a voice note is too long to listen to right now, where a long chat needs a summary. You decide for each message whether the AI gets it. There is no AI in Secret Chats.
Hive was built in a few months, by one person using AI as a tool. It is not finished, and it does not pretend to be. What works is further up this page. What is coming is in the roadmap.
Everywhere
On Android, get Hive on Google Play; the iPhone app is coming soon. In the browser, Hive runs everywhere and sits on your home screen as an app. One account, every device.
iPhone: soon
Get started
No ads, no selling your data. Messaging, calls and Secret Chats cost nothing, and you get 100 AI credits free every month. If you need more storage or AI, add Plus, Pro or Studio. Credits are also sold on their own, and the ones you buy never expire.
No. Hive is a messenger: you write to and call people. The AI helps right in the chat, with translating, summarising, reading aloud and creating images and videos. If you want, there's also a separate AI chat with 17 text models, from Claude to Llama.
No. You choose whether others can find you by your username, your exact email address or your name, or not at all. And you can share your QR code: anyone who scans it can send you a request.
Enter your email, type in the six-digit code from the email, done. No password, no phone number.
Yes. On Android, Hive is on Google Play. The iPhone app is coming to the App Store soon; until then, add Hive to your home screen in Safari. On a computer, Hive runs in the browser.
The money for the AI extras in Hive. Other apps call them tokens. 1 credit is 1 cent. Messaging, calls and groups cost nothing, even without credits. More above under “What are credits?”.
Every month you get 100 credits free. What an action costs is on the button before you press it. More credits come with Plus, Pro or Studio or as a pack, and credits you buy never expire.
Secret Chats, including photos, videos, voice messages and files, and one-to-one calls, including video and screen sharing. Nobody but you can read, see or hear them, not even us. Everything else is encrypted in transit; the details are in the privacy policy.
Database and media sit with Cloudflare in data centres in Western Europe. Hive sells no data and trains no AI on your chats. Details in the Privacy policy.
From plans and credits that people choose to buy. No ads, no selling of data, no investors.
Contact
A question, feedback or a request? Henny reads every message and replies by email.