Comparison

Vestaboard vs Aplomby

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

Aplomby

Features
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Nobody gets better at speaking by reading about it. You get better by doing it, badly, until it stops being bad — and the hard part is doing it at all. Aplomby gives you a stage, a random topic and a clock, then scores how you did. Two minutes, no audience, no setup. HOW A REP WORKS Nobody gets better at speaking by reading about it. You get better by doing it, badly, until it stops being bad — and the hard part is doing it at all. Aplomby gives you a stage, a random topic and a clock, then scores how you did. Two minutes, no audience, no setup. HOW A REP WORKS Lean your iPhone against something across the room, or sit at your Mac. You get a topic in huge, distance-readable type, a 3-2-1 countdown, and the clock. Then you talk. When you stop, Aplomby analyses your delivery and hands you a score card. WHAT IT MEASURES • Pace — words per minute, against the 120–160 range that reads as confident • Filler words — every "um", "uh" and "like", counted and shown in the transcript • Pauses — the longest silence, so dead air stops being invisible • Airtime — how much of your target you actually used No need to watch yourself back, though you can. The numbers do the work. 110 LESSONS ACROSS 13 TRACKS Structure, delivery mechanics, voice, body and presence, nerves, content craft, persuasion, Q&A under pressure, conversation, dating, work communication, occasions, and media. Each lesson is a three-minute read with one key takeaway, the mistakes people actually make, a phrase worth swapping, and a short quiz. Lessons that train a measurable skill hand you straight into a focused drill. 59 SCENARIOS YOU'LL ACTUALLY FACE Choose-your-response dialogues drawn from real rooms: the networking opener, the hard feedback, the passive-aggressive colleague, the salary conversation, the interview you want. Every option comes back with a coach's note explaining why it lands or doesn't — and answers are scored on a three-tier scale, because most real answers are neither right nor wrong. PEOPLE Add someone you actually have to talk to. Tick what you already know about them, and Aplomby writes you an opening, a way into the work, and the ground to stay off — then lets you rehearse the conversation as a playable dialogue. WATCH THE LINE CLIMB Score, pace and filler trends over time. A twelve-week consistency grid. Every session you have recorded, kept and searchable. Twelve badges, all of them earned on the stage. BUILT AS A HABIT Today's Mix gives you one lesson, one scenario and one stage rep a day — small enough to finish before breakfast. Set a daily reminder and keep the streak alive. PRIVACY No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no trackers, no third-party SDKs of any kind. Aplomby makes no network requests at all. Your recordings are stored on your device and nowhere else, and you can delete them all in one tap. Transcription runs on your device or it does not run: where a device cannot do it locally, Aplomby scores your timing instead of sending your audio anywhere. APLOMBY PRO Aplomby includes a full practice a day, the whole first Learn track, and three scenarios. Pro lifts the daily limit and opens the rest: all 110 lessons, all 59 scenarios, your complete history, and the pressure modes — curveballs, twists and drill focus. Available monthly, yearly, or as a single lifetime payment. Aplomb: noun — composure under pressure. It isn't a talent. It's reps. Terms of Use: https://kk-studio.ch/terms Privacy Policy: https://kk-studio.ch/privacy

Screenshots

Vestaboard3 screens
Aplomby4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vestaboard at none against Aplomby's 3. Aplomby's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Aplomby sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Vestaboard asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Vestaboard ships an update every 2 months, Aplomby fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Vestaboard versus Aplomby: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVestaboardAplomby
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (141 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings141 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size137 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVestaboard, Inc.Kanchalika Kongyong

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

Aplomby

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Vestaboard

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Aplomby

Subscriptions2
  • Aplomby Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Aplomby Pro Yearly7 Days trial$49.991 Year
One-time1
  • Aplomby Pro Lifetime$199.00

Questions

Is Vestaboard free?
Vestaboard is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aplomby free?
Aplomby is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Vestaboard or Aplomby have ads?
Vestaboard shows ads; Aplomby does not.
Which is updated more often, Vestaboard or Aplomby?
Vestaboard ships an update every 2 months, and Aplomby fortnightly. Most recently, Vestaboard was updated on November 7, 2026 and Aplomby on November 6, 2026.

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