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Hive vs Trilium Notes
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Hive and Trilium Notes — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Hive vs Trilium Notes: at a glance
What is Hive?
Hive is turning Workflows from task automation into full project-lifecycle orchestration.
Hive's release cadence is concentrated in Workflows, its automation engine. Recent additions let workflows trigger on project status changes and on urgency flags, and, crucially, spin up entire projects from intake forms and templates. Surrounding this is steady collaboration polish: a redesigned Files app, dashboard PDF previews, quote blocks, and scheduled messages.
What is Trilium Notes?
Trilium adds spreadsheets and OCR while deliberately ripping out its LLM integration
Trilium Notes is on a steady minor cadence under its post-handover maintainership. The current arc is striking for cutting against the grain: 0.103 introduces new note types (spreadsheet) and OCR, while 0.102 removed the built-in LLM integration outright and shipped urgent security fixes.
Hive vs Trilium Notes: editorial side-by-side
Hive
6.3COLLABPM
Hive is turning Workflows from task automation into full project-lifecycle orchestration.
◆ Current state
Hive's release cadence is concentrated in Workflows, its automation engine. Recent additions let workflows trigger on project status changes and on urgency flags, and, crucially, spin up entire projects from intake forms and templates. Surrounding this is steady collaboration polish: a redesigned Files app, dashboard PDF previews, quote blocks, and scheduled messages.
◆ Where it's heading
Workflows is graduating from task-level nudges to orchestrating the whole project lifecycle, reacting to project-state changes on one end and generating structured project work from briefs on the other. The collaboration and reporting features fill in the surrounding surface so the automated work has a polished place to live. Hive is positioning itself less as a task tracker and more as an operations engine for agencies and producers.
◆ Prediction
Expect more project-lifecycle triggers and actions to follow, closing the loop so an intake request can move through creation, status changes, and stakeholder notifications with no manual touch.
Trilium Notes
3.8COLLAB
Trilium adds spreadsheets and OCR while deliberately ripping out its LLM integration
◆ Current state
Trilium Notes is on a steady minor cadence under its post-handover maintainership. The current arc is striking for cutting against the grain: 0.103 introduces new note types (spreadsheet) and OCR, while 0.102 removed the built-in LLM integration outright and shipped urgent security fixes.
◆ Where it's heading
The direction is a focused, locally-grounded knowledge tool — adding structured data (spreadsheets) and document capture (OCR) while shedding hard-to-maintain AI features. Trilium is optimizing for a maintainable, privacy-respecting core rather than chasing AI parity.
◆ Prediction
Expect continued capability depth in note types and capture (spreadsheet, OCR) with AI staying out of core, and security responsiveness remaining a priority.
Alternatives to Hive and Trilium Notes
Other Collab products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Hive or Trilium Notes.
pCloud
pCloud's feed is mostly storage marketing — with one real feature in Rewind point-in-time recovery.
Asana
Asana keeps maturing AI Studio while hardening enterprise governance and cross-app integrations.
Mattermost
Mattermost doubles down on sovereign, post-quantum defence collaboration with an agentic layer on top.
Miro
Miro pushes into AI prototyping and wires the canvas to coding agents via MCP
SiYuan
SiYuan opens up: a kernel plugin system and CLI turn the notes app into a platform
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Recent activity from Hive and Trilium Notes
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 4d agoHiveRedesigned Files app for workspace assets
- 4d agoHiveCreate projects from templates in Workflows ⚡
- 4d agoHiveProject-level triggers in Workflows
- 11d agoHiveUrgency-triggered Workflows
- 12d agoHive.eml and .msg files in Proofing
- 12d agoHiveScheduled messages in Hive Chat
- 26d agoTrilium Notesv0.103.0 ⚡
- 2mo agoTrilium Notes0.102.2: urgent security fixes
- 3mo agoTrilium Notesv0.102.1
- 3mo agoTrilium Notes0.102.0: LLM integration removed ⚡
- 4mo agoTrilium NotesWeb Clipper v1.1.0
- 4mo agoTrilium NotesWeb Clipper v1.1.0
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Hive and Trilium Notes?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Hive is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 3.8), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 1. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Hive better than Trilium Notes?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Hive is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 3.8), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 1. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Collab products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Hive?
Top Hive alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Hive alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/hive for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Trilium Notes?
Top Trilium Notes alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Trilium Notes alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/trilium for the full list with editorial commentary on each.