HUUM vs Vestaboard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HUUM
Control your sauna remotely with this app. Schedule heating times and receive notifications when your sauna reaches the desired temperature, ensuring a perfectly heated experience upon arrival.
- Remote sauna heating
- Scheduled heating times
- Calendar bookings
- Temperature notifications
- Mobile control
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Your sauna, ready when you are. The HUUM app puts full control of your sauna in your pocket. Heat it up on your way home, fine-tune the temperature from the bench, and keep an eye on every session wherever you are. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Start, stop, and adjust your sauna remotely • Set the exact target temperature and session duration • Schedule sessions by day, time, and temperature, including recurring bookings • Watch live status, current and target temperature, and heating progress • Manage multiple saunas from a single view • Track your sauna hours and browse your full session history • Get clear, real-time alerts for doors, connection, and safety BUILT FOR SAFETY Remote start is enabled only when your sauna's safety is confirmed through the UKU control panel, so you stay in control at all times. Works with HUUM saunas equipped with the UKU controller and a Wi-Fi connection. Less fiddling. More leil.
Vestaboard
Easily create and manage messages for your smart display from any location. Craft visually appealing messages, schedule them, or get inspired with pre-made content. Collaborate with others and customize display settings for a personalized experience.
- Visual message editor
- Schedule and pin messages
- Inspiration content and 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Vestaboard at 71% against HUUM's 11%. Vestaboard also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.3) and ratings volume (141 vs 29). HUUM's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Vestaboard holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 141 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 11% of HUUM's written reviews are positive against 71% of Vestaboard's.
HUUM ships an update monthly, Vestaboard every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HUUM | Vestaboard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (29 ratings) | 4.6 (141 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 10.6% of reviews | 70.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 141 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 123 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HUUM | Vestaboard, Inc. |
Customer experience
HUUM
Vestaboard
User reviews
HUUM
From 29 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✅ Basic functionality works when stable
- 🎯 Simple on/off controls
- 📱 Remote control capability (when functioning)
- ⏱️ Scheduling feature available
- 🌡️ Temperature adjustment possible
Room to improve
- 🐛 Extremely unreliable and buggy
- ❌ Frequent app crashes and freezes
- 🔌 Constant WiFi connectivity issues
- ⏱️ Long response delays (2-3 minutes)
- 🌍 Random language switching problems
Vestaboard
From 141 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- ✨ Amazing product and looks
- 👍 Easy to use app interface
- 🤩 Entertaining and fun to use
- 💡 Great for office communication
- 💖 Inspires creativity and delights users
Room to improve
- 🐛 App updates cause issues (mute functionality)
- 🐛 Sending new messages doesn't work
- 🐛 App is not super responsive
- 🐛 App takes a long time to load or errors out
- 🐛 Manual editor is painfully clunky
Bugs and requests
HUUM
Reported bugs
21 issues- App randomly switches to Estonian/Finnish/Swedish
- Temperature control stops working after updates
- Scheduler/timer functionality broken
- Remote start feature randomly disables
- App won't open or becomes unresponsive
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- Login loops and credential rejection
- Door sensor falsely reports 'door open'
- Sauna turns off mid-heating without reason
- Light controls unresponsive or delayed
- Calendar/scheduling closes app
- Password reset emails don't work
- App incompatible with latest iOS versions
- Notifications not working on newer phones
- Sauna ID retrieval issues
- Temperature scroll functionality broken
- Auto-start toggle disabled but still visible
- Unexpected €420-500 charges during setup
- App logs out on every action
- Duplicate commands cause unexpected behavior
- Modal pages get stuck and freeze app
- Repeat scheduling function inaccurate
Requested features
12 requests- Apple Watch app support
- Dynamic Island integration
- Temperature reached notifications
- Ability to cancel/edit bookings
- Google Home/Alexa integration
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- Better visual feedback for on/off status
- In-app help documentation and instructions
- Language selection button always visible
- Advanced statistics and analytics
- User community map feature
- Persistent language preference storage
- Confirmation dialogs for critical actions
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
In-app purchases
HUUM
No in-app purchases
Vestaboard
No in-app purchases
