Comparison

Vestaboard vs Spicy Tomato

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Visual message editor
  • Instant and scheduled sending
  • Inspiration with templates
  • Message history and drafts
  • Remote collaboration
  • Quiet hours and time zone settings
Features
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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

About

Spicy Tomato

This app helps you meticulously track your plants from seed to harvest. Log care activities, set reminders for watering and feeding, and monitor your indoor grow environment. It syncs across all your Apple devices, offering a comprehensive garden journal.

Highlights
  • Track plants from seed to harvest
  • Log care activities with photos
  • Set watering and feeding schedules
  • Configure indoor grow environments
  • Syncs across all Apple devices
  • Siri and Shortcuts support
Features
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Spicy Tomato is a plant grow journal for your whole garden — and every Apple device you own. Track each plant from seed to harvest, log care in seconds, and never miss a watering again. TRACK EVERY STAGE Follow your plants through germination, seedling, vegetative, flowering, harvest, drying, curing, and storage. Give every plant a nickname, a species, and species-type tags — including your own custom types — so your library stays organized as it grows. LOG CARE IN SECONDS Record watering, nutrients, trimming, training, transplanting, and more with a couple of taps. Attach photos to build a visual journal of every grow, and review your history to see exactly what worked. STAY ON SCHEDULE Set recurring watering and feeding schedules with reminders, so nothing slips. Siri and Shortcuts support lets you check what's due and look up your plants hands-free. DIAL IN YOUR ENVIRONMENT Configure indoor grow environments with tent dimensions, light type (LED, HPS, CFL, and more), wattage, and color temperature — and keep every plant assigned to its space. EVERYWHERE YOU GROW Native apps for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro, with iCloud sync keeping everything up to date. Quick-log from your wrist, review your garden on the big screen, or manage your plants in full spatial view. There's even an iMessage sticker pack to share plant-themed stickers with friends. FREE TO START Track up to 5 plants and one environment for free. Spicy Tomato Premium — a yearly subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase — unlocks unlimited plants and environments. Whether you're growing tomatoes on a balcony or running a full indoor tent, Spicy Tomato keeps your grow organized from seed to jar. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Vestaboard3 screens
Spicy Tomato4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vestaboard at none against Spicy Tomato's 2. Vestaboard also leads on ratings volume (141 vs 1). Spicy Tomato's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Spicy Tomato sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per year. Vestaboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spicy Tomato holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Vestaboard has 141 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vestaboard ships an update every 2 months, Spicy Tomato every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Vestaboard versus Spicy Tomato: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVestaboardSpicy Tomato
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (141 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings141 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size137 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVestaboard, Inc.Rayan Khan

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

Spicy Tomato

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Vestaboard

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Spicy Tomato

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Yearly$0.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium Lifetime$4.99

Questions

Is Vestaboard free?
Vestaboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spicy Tomato free?
Spicy Tomato is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Vestaboard or Spicy Tomato?
Spicy Tomato is rated higher. Vestaboard averages 4.6 out of 5 from 141 ratings, while Spicy Tomato averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Vestaboard or Spicy Tomato have ads?
Vestaboard shows ads; Spicy Tomato does not.
Which is updated more often, Vestaboard or Spicy Tomato?
Vestaboard ships an update every 2 months, and Spicy Tomato every 3 weeks. Most recently, Vestaboard was updated on November 7, 2026 and Spicy Tomato on November 9, 2026.

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