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Capacities vs Hive
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Capacities and Hive — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Capacities vs Hive: at a glance
What is Capacities?
Capacities rebuilds its tablet app and moves audio recording down to Pro.
Capacities ships a named release about monthly. November's rebuilds the iPad and Android tablet app, moves audio recording and analysis into the Pro plan, and starts reminders in early testing for Believer subscribers. October added whiteboards and a global graph view, and September brought audio transcription and AI chats that can edit objects.
What is Hive?
Hive turns reporting into a planning tool: shared inputs, grouped values, per-person drill-downs.
Hive's November releases have two tracks. Bulk work got easier with undo and redo, a rebuilt Workflows library and now setting or shifting dates across many actions at once. Reporting got deeper: on November 13 dashboards gained per-person burndown drill-downs, grouped custom-field values in charts, and formulas that read monthly capacity and factors stored in Tables.
Capacities vs Hive: editorial side-by-side
Capacities
5.0COLLAB
Capacities rebuilds its tablet app and moves audio recording down to Pro.
◆ Current state
Capacities ships a named release about monthly. November's rebuilds the iPad and Android tablet app, moves audio recording and analysis into the Pro plan, and starts reminders in early testing for Believer subscribers. October added whiteboards and a global graph view, and September brought audio transcription and AI chats that can edit objects.
◆ Where it's heading
Capacities keeps a pattern of trialling features with Believers and then moving them down to Pro, as it did with bulk import, image analysis and now audio. The tablet rebuild suggests more attention to devices beyond desktop.
◆ Prediction
Reminders will likely leave Believer-only testing in a coming monthly release and move toward Pro, following the audio path.
Hive
6.3COLLABPM
Hive turns reporting into a planning tool: shared inputs, grouped values, per-person drill-downs.
◆ Current state
Hive's November releases have two tracks. Bulk work got easier with undo and redo, a rebuilt Workflows library and now setting or shifting dates across many actions at once. Reporting got deeper: on November 13 dashboards gained per-person burndown drill-downs, grouped custom-field values in charts, and formulas that read monthly capacity and factors stored in Tables.
◆ Where it's heading
Dashboards are moving from showing tracked time toward capacity planning, with shared inputs that update every report when edited. Bulk editing keeps reaching more views, and each new bulk action ships with undo.
◆ Prediction
Expect more report widgets to accept Tables inputs and drill-downs, and bulk actions extending to fields beyond dates and status.
Alternatives to Capacities 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 Capacities or Hive.
Nextcloud
Nextcloud's November patches lean on preview speed and sharing fixes across three branches.
Mattermost
Mattermost v12.1 puts bots and burn-after-reading messages under the same access rules.
Asana
Asana lets Division admins run their own custom roles, on top Enterprise plans only.
Double
Double turns a recorded Chrome session into an agent that repeats the task.
SiYuan
SiYuan 3.8.11 alphas add freeform mind maps and plugin snapshots right after 3.8.10.
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Recent activity from Capacities and Hive
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoHiveCharts can group custom field values into categories
- 1d agoHiveReporting formulas can use values stored in Tables
- 1d agoHiveBurndown chart points open a per-person breakdown
- 1d agoHiveSet, shift or clear dates across many actions at once
- 2d agoHiveWorkflows library beta adds filters, grouping and bulk actions
- 3d agoHiveUndo and redo for bulk action changes
- 9d agoCapacitiesA rebuilt tablet app, audio in Pro, and reminders in early testing
- 19d agoCapacitiesWhiteboards, global graph view, and polish on the basics
- 1mo agoCapacitiesAudio recording and transcription, a calmer desktop, bulk property editing, and smarter AI chats
- 2mo agoCapacitiesv1.70.2: Index Card padding and calendar fixes
- 2mo agoCapacitiesPDF reader view and annotations for Believers, Version History, more calendars, and AI image generation
- 2mo agoCapacitiesCapacities Pro+ and Believer+
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Capacities and Hive?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Hive is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), 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 Capacities better than Hive?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Hive is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), 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 Capacities?
Top Capacities alternatives in Collab are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Capacities alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/capacities 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.