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Immich vs Hive
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Immich and Hive — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Immich vs Hive: at a glance
What is Immich?
Immich is four release candidates into v3 with every feature note published somewhere else.
The visible release stream is a v3.0.0 RC series — rc.0 through rc.3, cut over eleven days in June — and each entry is the same template: a release-candidate disclaimer, a database and library backup warning, and instructions to move IMMICH_VERSION from v2 to v3 or the rolling v3-rc tag. The actual release notes live on a work-in-progress preview page outside the changelog.
What is Hive?
AI Proofing gets its manual controls back while Hive builds out creative review and resourcing.
Six entries landed the same day, and five of them are proofing: version visibility rules that keep working drafts away from external approvers, a returning reference-document picker for AI Proofing, annotation stroke widths, and an optimized viewing path for very large images. The rest is Resourcing — project-name grouping in the Users view, and a day earlier a 13-week resource estimates grid that separates planned capacity from committed assignments.
Immich vs Hive: editorial side-by-side
Immich
0.0COLLAB
Immich is four release candidates into v3 with every feature note published somewhere else.
◆ Current state
The visible release stream is a v3.0.0 RC series — rc.0 through rc.3, cut over eleven days in June — and each entry is the same template: a release-candidate disclaimer, a database and library backup warning, and instructions to move IMMICH_VERSION from v2 to v3 or the rolling v3-rc tag. The actual release notes live on a work-in-progress preview page outside the changelog.
◆ Where it's heading
What the feed does show is a project running a disciplined pre-release: a rolling RC tag so testers do not have to chase point versions, and two-to-seven day turnarounds between candidates as bugs come in. What it does not show is a single feature, which means anyone tracking Immich through its changelog learns only that a major version is close, not what it changes.
◆ Prediction
A v3.0.0 stable release follows once the RC turnaround lengthens; the entries give no basis for predicting what it contains, because none of them describe it.
Hive
10.0COLLABPM
AI Proofing gets its manual controls back while Hive builds out creative review and resourcing.
◆ Current state
Six entries landed the same day, and five of them are proofing: version visibility rules that keep working drafts away from external approvers, a returning reference-document picker for AI Proofing, annotation stroke widths, and an optimized viewing path for very large images. The rest is Resourcing — project-name grouping in the Users view, and a day earlier a 13-week resource estimates grid that separates planned capacity from committed assignments.
◆ Where it's heading
Hive is going deep on two modules rather than broad across the product. Creative proofing is being hardened for work with outside approvers, where the requirement is not more features but tighter control over who sees which version. The more telling change is AI Proofing: the reference-document picker is back after having been removed, with automatic selection now an explicit opt-in. That is an AI feature being walked back toward human control, and it suggests the automatic behavior was picking the wrong source material often enough to matter.
◆ Prediction
Expect the proofing round to keep accumulating external-reviewer controls, and the 13-week estimates grid to grow the path from planned to committed scheduling, since the entry describes that handoff but not how it completes.
Alternatives to Immich and Hive
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 Immich or Hive.
Jellyfin
Jellyfin drops the 10. prefix and puts 12.0 through a three-candidate preview.
PhotoPrism
PhotoPrism swapped in an ONNX vision pipeline, then opened the library to 360° media at 16K.
EGroupware
Two branches, one deadline: 23.1 security coverage ends August 15th and 26.x is the only exit.
SOGo
SOGo's 5.12 line has become a CVE conveyor belt while the team's attention sits on SOGo 6.
File Browser
File Browser is shutting down — the repo archives on 2026-09-01 and no security fixes follow.
Recent activity from Immich and Hive
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 2d agoHiveTemplate subactions can stay unassigned when applied
- 2d agoHiveResourcing Users view can sort and group by project name
- 2d agoHiveInk and highlighter annotations get thin, medium, thick strokes
- 2d agoHiveWorking proof versions stay hidden from published-only reviewers
- 2d agoHiveReference-document picker returns before AI Proofing runs
- 2d agoHiveProofing V2 handles very large images without downscaling first
- 1mo agoImmichThird v3 candidate fixes issues found in rc.2
- 1mo agoImmichSecond v3 candidate fixes issues found in rc.1
- 1mo agoImmichRolling v3-rc tag introduced for prereleases
- 1mo agoImmichFirst v3 release candidate opens the major-version cut
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Immich and Hive?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Hive is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 10.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Immich better than Hive?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Hive is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 10.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Collab products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Immich?
Top Immich alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Immich alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/immich for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
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.