Velo Antwerpen vs Bold Smart Lock
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Velo Antwerpen
Access a network of shared bicycles throughout the city for convenient travel. Purchase day, week, or annual passes to enjoy 30-minute rides, with options to find bikes and return them at numerous stations. The app helps you manage your subscription and report any issues.
- City-wide shared bike access
- Day, week, and annual passes
- 30-minute ride inclusion
- Find bikes and free slots
- Route mapping
- Subscription management
- Report defects
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Travel smoothly through Antwerp: Everywhere in the city there is a shared bike waiting for you! Use Velo for a day (€5), a week (€12), or take an annual subscription (€58). All your 30-minute rides are included. After each ride, return a bike to one of the more than 300 Velo stations in Antwerp. After 5 minutes, you can borrow a bike again at any Velo station. Download the Velo app, so you always have Velo in your pocket: • Consult the rates and read how it works. • Buy a day pass, week pass or annual subscription. • Find a bike or free slot nearby & map out your route. • Get help taking or returning a bike in a station or report a defect. • Annual subscription? Borrow bikes, manage your subscription and receive a confirmation after every ride. Customer service is available every day on 0032 (0)3 206 50 30. Email: info@velo-antwerpen.be www.velo-antwerpen.be
Bold Smart Lock
Transform your smartphone into a digital key for seamless entry and exit. Grant temporary or permanent access to guests, family, or service providers with customizable virtual keys. Enjoy enhanced security and a simplified daily routine.
- Smartphone as a digital key
- Automatic door unlocking/locking
- Virtual key sharing
- Customizable access permissions
- High-level security
- Easy cylinder replacement
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With Bold, your smartphone is your key. Enter and leave your house with your phone in your pocket; Bold will (auto) unlock and lock your door as you come and go. Having guests over? Share virtual keys with whomever, whenever. Invite people with the Bold app and activate or deactivate their virtual key. You are the digital key master: give your spouse permanent access, let the plumber in Monday morning and the cleaning lady every Friday afternoon. You decide! With the highest level of security (think of digital banking-security), your house is safer than ever before. By just replacing the cylinder, burglars will be unable to enter your house using the common techniques. Bold's simple and elegant design makes your front door look better, your house safer and your life easier.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Velo Antwerpen at free against Bold Smart Lock's paid. Velo Antwerpen also leads on rating (4.4 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (52 vs 5). Bold Smart Lock's advantage is review sentiment (55% vs 40%) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Velo Antwerpen holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Velo Antwerpen has 52 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 40% of Velo Antwerpen's written reviews are positive against 55% of Bold Smart Lock's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Velo Antwerpen ships an update every 5 weeks, Bold Smart Lock every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Velo Antwerpen | Bold Smart Lock |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (52 ratings) — better | 4.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 54.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 52 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BAUER MEDIA OUTDOOR INTERNATIONAL LIMITED | Sesam Solutions BV |
Customer experience
Velo Antwerpen
Bold Smart Lock
In-app purchases
Velo Antwerpen
No in-app purchases
Bold Smart Lock
No in-app purchases
