Macro App vs Vellum Assistant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Macro App
This comprehensive workspace integrates email, messaging, notes, tasks, PDF viewing, diagram creation, file storage, and code editing. It also features integrated LLMs that understand your content.
- Integrated email and messaging
- Note-taking and task management
- PDF viewer and diagram creator
- File storage and code editor
- Context-aware LLM assistance
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Macro is a workspace offering email, messaging, notes, tasks, pdf, diagrams, file storage, and code-editing—all alongside LLMs that have context on everything you touch.
Vellum Assistant
This AI assistant learns your work habits and thought processes to help you stay on top of tasks. It syncs across devices, providing quick summaries of communications and access to past notes. Over time, it becomes an indispensable teammate.
- Learns user work habits
- Syncs across Mac, iPhone, and web
- Summarizes Slack, email, and meetings
- Remembers forgotten tasks and follow-ups
- Accesses past notes and thoughts
- Improves with continued use
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vellum is your personal AI for work and life. It learns how you think, remembers what matters, and helps with the things you care about. With vellum, you're always in control: • Choose where your data lives: vellum Cloud or your own self-hosted vellum • Use any model, bring your own API key, or use vellum-optimized models • Decide what your assistant can access and remember Talk, text, or show vellum what you see with your camera, then use it to: • Catch up on email, Slack, and meetings • Remember follow-ups, tasks, and important details • Plan your day, trips, meals, or workouts • Find old notes, files, and saved links • Think through work and personal decisions • Get help with whatever is in front of you One assistant across iPhone, Mac, and web. Always caught up on what matters to you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Macro App at 4.3 against Vellum Assistant's 4.0. Macro App also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Vellum Assistant's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
Macro App holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 18 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Macro App's written reviews are positive against 73% of Vellum Assistant's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Macro App ships an update fortnightly, Vellum Assistant every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Macro App | Vellum Assistant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (15 ratings) — better | 4.0 (18 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Macro | Vocify Inc. |
Customer experience
Macro App
Vellum Assistant
In-app purchases
Macro App
No in-app purchases
Vellum Assistant
No in-app purchases
