Vestaboard vs Large Text
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vestaboard
Easily create and manage messages for your smart display from any location. Craft visually appealing messages, schedule them, or get inspired with pre-made content. Collaborate with others and customize display settings for a personalized experience.
- Visual message editor
- Schedule and pin messages
- Inspiration content and 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
Large Text
Transform your device's widgets into dynamic text displays. Easily showcase quotes, notes, or reminders with adaptive font scaling and full color customization. Shake your device to instantly flash vibrant text and background combinations.
- Adaptive font scaling
- Full font style customization
- Vibrant text and background colors
- Home screen widget support
- Shake to flash color feature
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Introducing Your Text Display App – Make Your Words Stand Out! Transform your iPhone and iOS widgets into dynamic text displays with our innovative app. Whether you need to display a powerful quote, a quick note, or an important reminder, this app makes it seamless and visually appealing. Key Features: Adaptive Font Scaling: No matter how many words you type, the app intelligently adjusts the font size to fill your screen perfectly. Full Customization: Choose from a variety of font styles to match your mood or message. Vibrant Personalization: Customize text and background colors to create eye-catching displays that suit your needs. Widget Support: Display large, clear text directly on your home screen widgets for quick viewing at a glance. Perfect for creating standout messages, enhancing productivity, and personalizing your device with ease. Let your words take center stage! Shake to Flash: Shake your device to instantly flash the text color and background color in vibrant, eye-catching combinations. Perfect for grabbing attention at airports, rocking out at concerts, or just having fun! Make your message impossible to miss with this playful and dynamic feature.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vestaboard at none against Large Text's 1. Vestaboard also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 60%) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Large Text's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating, ratings volume and device support 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. Large Text sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Vestaboard asks for nothing beyond the download.
Vestaboard holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 140 and 48 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Vestaboard's written reviews are positive against 60% of Large Text's.
Vestaboard ships an update every 2 months, Large Text every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vestaboard | Large Text |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (140 ratings) — better | 4.4 (48 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 140 — better | 48 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 118 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vestaboard, Inc. | 娜 张 |
Customer experience
Vestaboard
Large Text
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
Large Text
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Vestaboard
No in-app purchases
Large Text
- Remove Ads$0.99
