Vestaboard vs Leaf A Day
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
Leaf A Day
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Leaf a Day is a simple, private way to track how you're feeling — one color a day, building into a whole year you can look back on. Each day, pick the shade that matches how it felt, from Rough to Great. Over days and months, your choices grow into a "year in pixels" view, so patterns you'd never notice day-to-day become easy to see at a glance. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign up, no login. • Your days are stored on your device. We don't read them, sell them, or use them for ads. • No analytics, no tracking, no ads ever. SYNC BETWEEN YOUR OWN DEVICES Want your days on your phone and your tablet? Turn on sync and scan a QR code to link a second device. Everything is encrypted with your own sync code before it ever leaves your device. not even we can read it. A GENTLE NUDGE, IF YOU WANT ONE Turn on a daily reminder at the time that works for you. It's smart enough to skip days you've already filled in, and it never leaves your phone. Leaf a Day is a free project of the Leaf N Hope Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to mental health support and resources.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Leaf A Day at none against Vestaboard's shown. Leaf A Day also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). Vestaboard's advantage is ratings volume (141 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Leaf A Day 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 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Vestaboard ships an update every 2 months, Leaf A Day every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vestaboard | Leaf A Day |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (141 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 141 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 137 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Vestaboard, Inc. | Leaf N Hope Foundation |
Customer experience
Vestaboard
Leaf A Day
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
Leaf A Day
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Vestaboard
No in-app purchases
Leaf A Day
No in-app purchases
