Aether Auctions vs Augusta Auctions
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Aether Auctions
Participate in live auctions and manage your bidding activity directly from your mobile device. Browse upcoming sales, save favorite items, and place bids remotely. Receive timely reminders to ensure you never miss an opportunity.
- View auction calendar
- Search and save favorite lots
- Register for sales
- Receive bid reminders
- Place absentee bids
- Bid live
- Track bidding activity
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The new Aether Auctions app lets you view our auction calendar and bid live in our auctions from your mobile device. Participate in our sales wherever you are using your mobile device and by gaining access to the following features:- - View calendar of past and future sales - Search lots - Save favorite lots - Register for upcoming sales - Receive reminders to ensure you never miss a chance to bid in a sale - Leave absentee bids - Bid live - Track your bidding activity
Augusta Auctions
This app connects buyers and sellers of rare fashion items and museum deaccessions. It represents institutions and individuals, ensuring textile treasures are marketed globally to serious buyers in the fashion, museum, film, and textile worlds.
- Auctioning museum deaccessions
- Selling rare fashion items
- Global marketing for consignors
- Targeted marketing programs
- Online and in-person bidding
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Augusta Auctions represents museums, historical societies, universities and other institutions bringing to market museum deaccessions and patron donations, with sale proceeds earmarked to benefit their permanent collections. Our company also represents individuals and select estates in the auction of rare fashion items. Consignors, both institutional and individual, are assured that their textile treasures will be treated with respect and will benefit from our targeted marketing programs directed to our customer base around the globe. Serious buyers from the international fashion, museum, film and textile worlds travel each year to New York City, Vermont and Massachusetts to attend our specialty auctions. Consigned lots benefit from lively bidding online or at our various sale venues.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Augusta Auctions at 5.0 against Aether Auctions's 4.0. Augusta Auctions also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 13 months). Aether Auctions's advantage is ratings volume (4 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Augusta Auctions holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively.
Aether Auctions ships an update every 13 months, Augusta Auctions every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Aether Auctions | Augusta Auctions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 55 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Aether Auctions plus Appraisals, LLC. | International Auction Partners, Inc |
Customer experience
Aether Auctions
Augusta Auctions
In-app purchases
Aether Auctions
No in-app purchases
Augusta Auctions
No in-app purchases
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