Sotheby's vs Velle RM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sotheby's
Access extraordinary art, precious objects, wine, and jewelry from auctions worldwide. Track bids, register for auctions, and explore past and upcoming sales with expert insights.
- Bid in live and online auctions
- Track bids and registrations
- Browse open, upcoming, and past auctions
- Search past and present lots
- Manage profile and view purchases
- Access favorite auctions and lots
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Extraordinary auctions. Exceptional finds. Anytime, anywhere. The Sotheby’s iOS app provides collectors with exceptional access to the world’s most extraordinary art, precious objects, wine and jewellery, together with the unparalleled expertise of our world-class specialists. Track your bids and registrations effortlessly. Bid in live and online auctions. Browse open, upcoming, and past auctions and lots. Browse fixed price retail and private sale items in search results. Quickly access your favorite auctions and lots. Manage profile, view purchases, customize your settings and view additional services.
Velle RM
Organize all your important relationship details in one private place. Track birthdays, gift ideas, and event planning for people you care about. Never forget a special occasion or thoughtful gesture again.
- Centralized relationship information
- Birthday and anniversary tracking
- Gift idea and tracking
- Event and guest list management
- Household and address organization
- Smart and manual group creation
- Private and secure data storage
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You're Early Velle is new, and the people here now are the ones who will shape it. As a founding member, you keep your founding price for as long as you stay subscribed, and you're invited into our beta circle to try new features first. Write to hello@velleapp.com and you'll hear back from the person who built it. The birthdays live in your head. The gift ideas pile up in Notes, the addresses somewhere in Contacts, the rest on a list you keep meaning to make. You hold it all because these are people you love, but it's scattered across a dozen apps, and none of them were built for this. Velle brings it into one private place: the people who matter and everything you want to remember about them, so you can show up for them the way you mean to. People, and What You'd Otherwise Forget The heart of Velle is the people themselves. Bring in who you already have from Apple Contacts, then add the things a contacts app never held: birthdays and anniversaries, interests, sizes, gift preferences, how you know them, and any note worth keeping. Every date gathers into one calm view of the days ahead, so nothing important arrives by surprise. Gifts, Given and Received Keep a running list of gift ideas for each person with a title, a link, and a budget, then follow one from idea to purchased to given. Just as important, log the gifts you receive, so when someone is generous you remember to return the thoughtfulness. Record what was given, what it cost, and how it landed. Next year starts from something real instead of a blank page. Hosting, Handled Plan the dinner, the kids' party, the holiday open house. Build a guest list from households, individuals, or groups, and track each reply as yes, no, maybe, or no response, rolled up by household at a glance ("Smith Family: 2 attending, 1 declined"). Keep a to-do list for the things around it, whether that's getting the cake recipe from Mom or ordering new tablecloths, and check off your thank-you notes once the day has passed. Households and Correspondence Velle is built around homes, not just a flat list of names. Group people into households, store a home address and a separate mailing address, and set how each household likes to be addressed, whether "The Smith Family" or "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." When it's time for cards, Velle formats the envelope so it's ready to hand off for printing. Groups That Do the Work Gather the holiday card list, the family, the friends who always get invited together. Smart groups build themselves from relationship type. Manual groups are yours to shape. Reuse them anywhere you address, invite, or gift. Private by Design No account. No cloud. No sign-in. Your relationships never reach us because they never leave your phone. Nothing to breach, nothing to sell, nothing to mine. The data is yours, and only yours. Be the one who remembers. Velle Unlimited is a subscription, billed monthly or annually. Payment is charged to your Apple Account, and the subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Velle RM at 5.0 against Sotheby's's 3.4. Velle RM also leads on ads (none vs shown). Sotheby's's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (97 vs 1). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Velle RM sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Sotheby's asks for nothing beyond the download.
Velle RM holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sotheby's has 97 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sotheby's | Velle RM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (97 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 97 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sotheby's | Oen Solutions LTD. |
Customer experience
Sotheby's
Velle RM
Bugs and requests
Sotheby's
Reported bugs
10 issues- Cannot sort auction lots
- Cannot follow, view, or bid
- App crashes on launch
- ID verification camera not focusing
- Photo upload issues
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- Saved objects not displaying correctly
- App freezes or crashes during use
- Lot details never load
- AppleTV app fails to open
- App thinks it's on an iPhone on iPad
Requested features
8 requests- Allow sorting of auction lots
- Improve search functionality
- Enable calendar integration
- Make app landscape compatible
- Simplify personalization options
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- Improve account integration
- Allow file uploads for ID verification
- Fix AppleTV app issues
Velle RM
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sotheby's
No in-app purchases
Velle RM
- Local Unlimited Partner$4.991 Month
- Local Unlimited$9.991 Month
- Local Unlimited Annual$79.991 Year









