Vestaboard vs Fellow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vestaboard
This app allows you to remotely connect and control a smart messaging display. Easily craft, send, schedule, and curate messages, or collaborate with others. It offers inspiration with templates and content picks, and helps manage your display's settings for a personalized experience.
- Visual message editor
- Instant and scheduled sending
- Inspiration with templates
- Message history and drafts
- Remote collaboration
- Quiet hours and time zone settings
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Connect and control your Vestaboard from anywhere with the Vestaboard mobile app. Whether you're sending a quick note or curating a moment of inspiration, the app makes it easy and fun to manage your Vestaboard. Key features: - Craft beautiful messages with the intuitive visual editor - Send instantly, schedule for later, or pin a message to display longer - Get inspired with daily content picks and ready-to-use templates - Browse, edit, and favorite past messages or start fresh with new drafts - Invite others to collaborate and manage your Vestaboard remotely - Set quiet hours and time zone preferences to fit your routine Vestaboard is a stunning smart messaging display, inspired by the classic split-flap signs of European train stations and reimagined for the modern home or workspace. Use it at home to share inspiration, stay organized, and connect with loved ones, or bring it to work to engage teams, welcome guests, and keep everyone in sync. Ideal for offices, retail spaces, hospitality, education, healthcare, and more. Learn more at vestaboard.com. Need support? Visit vestaboard.com/help
Fellow
Enhance your coffee brewing experience by connecting your smart coffee maker. Create custom brew profiles, schedule brews, and fine-tune every variable for perfect results. Access educational content to master your espresso craft.
- Create custom brew profiles
- Schedule brews in advance
- Fine-tune brewing variables
- Access guided educational content
- Improve espresso technique
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Connect your Fellow Aiden or Espresso Series 1 to unlock the full experience and stay up to date with the latest features. Aiden - Brew exceptional coffee with precision and ease. Create, edit, and share custom brew profiles Schedule brews in advance Fine-tune every variable for perfect results Combining precision, control, and speed, Aiden delivers pour-over quality coffee at the press of a button. Espresso Series 1 - Master your espresso craft. Access guided educational content Learn how to dial in your machine Improve your technique and consistency Profile syncing and Drops for Espresso Series 1 coming soon.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Vestaboard at 71% against Fellow's 10%. Vestaboard also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.0). Fellow's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Vestaboard holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 141 and 67 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Vestaboard's written reviews are positive against 10% of Fellow's.
Vestaboard ships an update every 2 months, Fellow every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vestaboard | Fellow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (141 ratings) — better | 2.0 (67 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews — better | 10.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 141 — better | 67 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 137 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vestaboard, Inc. | Fellow |
Customer experience
Vestaboard
Fellow
User reviews
Vestaboard
From 141 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Amazing product and looks
- 👍 Easy to use app interface
- 🤩 Entertaining and fun to use
- 💡 Great for office communication
- 💖 Inspires creativity and delights users
Room to improve
- 🐛 App updates cause issues (mute functionality)
- 🐛 Sending new messages doesn't work
- 🐛 App is not super responsive
- 🐛 App takes a long time to load or errors out
- 🐛 Manual editor is painfully clunky
Fellow
From 67 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Seamless app pairing
- ✅ Firmware updates work well
- 🔍 Helpful profile management
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connectivity issues
- 🤔 Limited app functionality
- 😕 Usability concerns
- ⏱️ Frequent sign-outs
Bugs and requests
Vestaboard
Reported bugs
9 issues- Mute for a period of time functionality is inoperable after update
- Sending new messages to the board simply doesn’t work
- App update forces updates when there aren’t any
- Unable to set time zone or make changes to quiet hours
- Device will not connect to internal WiFi
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- App crashing upon opening
- App takes at least a full minute to load or runs into an error
- Bluetooth keyboard doesn't work in manual editor on Android
- Pairing with WiFi issues out of the box
Requested features
9 requests- Option to switch off WiFi module for power saving
- More specific controls for sending messages by time
- Include Vestaboard+ in initial hardware purchase
- Add iCal support
- More basic tools for text editing (preview, alignment control)
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- Improve manual editor for better text control
- Support for French applications/language
- Ability to center text
- More creative control beyond limited templates
Fellow
Reported bugs
3 issues- App unable to connect to WiFi
- Bluetooth pairing problems
- Inconsistent device visibility
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to brew by grams of coffee
- Scheduling and remote start features
- Custom recipe input and management
In-app purchases
Vestaboard
No in-app purchases
Fellow
No in-app purchases
