Last updated: 26 August 2026.
30-Second Verdict
The Wolkenkraft Vita wins — 6.5 to 6.3 — and it wins six of the seven categories, which is a far bigger gap than two-tenths makes it sound. For £9 more you get better materials, USB-C, vibration feedback, five presets instead of three, and 18 fewer grams. The Aura keeps exactly one thing the Vita can't take: a 2600mAh battery in a pen body, and the pen shape that goes where nothing else goes.
Wolkenkraft Vita: 6.5/10 | £78.00 Flowermate Aura: 6.3/10 | £69.00
Buy the Wolkenkraft Vita if: - You want the lightest named-brand vaporiser sold — 72g, 100mm, no asterisks - You want materials that don't have a countdown on them: aluminium, stainless steel, PEEK with a ceramic filter - USB-C and pass-through charging matter to you in 2026 (they should) - You want five presets and a vibration alert rather than three presets and a colour code
Buy the Flowermate Aura if: - Battery is your bottleneck: 2600mAh and 6–8 sessions versus 1600mAh and 5–7 - You want a bigger bowl — 0.3g against the Vita's ~0.15g — and fewer reloads per evening - Pen-shape stealth is the actual mission, and a handbag pen slot is the actual destination - You want herb, concentrate and oil pods in the box for £69 and will accept the trade-offs whole
Quick Specs Face-Off:
| Wolkenkraft Vita | Flowermate Aura | |
|---|---|---|
| Weight / size | 72g, 100mm | ~90g, pen-shaped |
| Bowl | ~0.15g stainless steel | ~0.3g stainless steel |
| Heat-up | 25–30s | 30–45s |
| Temps | 5 presets (180/190/200/210/220°C) | 3 presets (~185/195/215°C) |
| Battery | 1600mAh sealed, 5–7 sessions, USB-C + pass-through | 2600mAh sealed, 6–8 sessions, Micro-USB (~3 hrs) |
| Mouthpiece | PEEK with ceramic filter | Plastic (cracks) |
| Warranty | 2–3 years (Germany) | 2 years (China) |
| Price | £78.00 | £69.00 |
The Hook
Every allotment has two watering cans, and nobody plans it that way.
The first is the little galvanised one. A litre and a half, maybe two, steel, a brass rose on the spout, heavier than it needs to be for what it holds. It lives on the shelf inside the shed door. You refill it four times to do one row, and you never mind, because it pours where you point it and it will outlive you. Somebody's dad bought it in 1994 and it looks exactly the same now as it did then, which is to say: fine.
The second is the big plastic one. Five litres, bright green, £4.99 from the garden centre, bought in a hurry the year the good one was on the wrong site. It carries three times the water. It also sloshes, the rose clogs, and one August the handle splits along the moulding seam and you carry it two-handed for the rest of the season, because it still works and you're not going to town over a fiver.
The Wolkenkraft Vita is the galvanised can. The Flowermate Aura is the plastic one. Both of them water the pots by the back door. Neither of them waters the plot — that's what a hose and a standpipe are for, and in vape terms that's a device costing three times either of these.
I called the Vita a Casio F-91W in its review and the Aura a BIC Cristal in its own. Both of those still stand, and both of them were describing the same virtue from different angles: these are cheap tools you don't think about. What matters for this pairing is the bit the individual reviews couldn't say — that they are two answers to one question, £9 apart, and one of them is better answered at basically every point except the tank.
One of them scores higher. It's the small one. The gap is smaller than it should be.
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Vapour Quality
Winner: Wolkenkraft Vita. 5.5/10 versus 5.0/10 — and I want to be plain that neither of those numbers is a compliment.
Both are pure conduction through a stainless steel chamber. Neither has a convection assist. Both take a strain and hand you back its general character with the individual terpenes rubbed off, and both reviews said so in almost the same words. If you have ever drawn on a convection device and thought "oh, that's what pine smells like", nothing in this comparison will give you that back.
What separates them is the last two inches of airpath. The Vita finishes with a PEEK mouthpiece and a ceramic filter: no synthetic taste, a subtle cooling effect, and an insulated airpath that keeps vapour cooler than 72 grams of aluminium has any right to. The Aura finishes with plastic, and the Aura's review was honest about what that costs — a faint synthetic warmth sitting behind the flavour, "the sort of thing you notice once and then try to forget", plus a mouthpiece that gets unpleasantly hot from draw three onwards. That's not a rounding error. That's the difference between a rose you can point and one that dribbles down your wrist.
The Vita also has more places to stand. Five presets from 180 to 220°C against the Aura's three, and the Aura's gap is the awkward one: if ~195°C is too hot and ~185°C isn't enough, there is no middle, and its own review said experienced users will feel the restriction. On both devices the temperature choice is doing more work than usual, which is the argument for reading the temperature guide before you buy either.
The Aura's counter is chamber size: 0.3g against ~0.15g. Twice the flower per load means longer sessions and fewer reloads, and conduction devices like a full chamber. It also means stirring mid-session for an even cook, which the Vita's microscopic bowl never asks of you.
Peak draw: Vita, by a nose and a mouthpiece. Draws three onwards: Vita, by more, because that's when the Aura's plastic starts warming up. Neither is a flavour device. One of them is a slightly less apologetic one.
The Strain Test, Side by Side
Here's the honest bit, up front: neither of these devices has run the site's control pair. Jack Herer and Wedding Cake go through everything I review so the strain is fixed and the device is the variable — but both of these were tested in June on what was in the jars, and neither review carries the controls. I'm not going to invent them. What I can do is line up the terpene families and read across, because between them the four strains cover both halves of what the control pair tests. Full workings on how scoring is done live in the methodology.
The fragile, pine-and-citrus side — the Jack Herer job — is barely represented on either card, and that itself is the finding. The nearest thing to Jack's terpinolene-pinene structure on either device is the Aura's Noidecs T10:C10, where pinene arrived first at preset 1 as "a clean, piney freshness that's subtle through plastic but present" — note the qualifier, because it's doing all the work in that sentence. On the Vita side the closest analogue is the limonene lift in both its test strains: the Sherblato's "gentle citrus lift" at 190°C, and the mild citrus that came through the Shiatsu Kush's myrcene at preset 1. In both cases the delicate note is detectable and never resolved. That is what the Vita's review meant by "general strain character without individual terpene definition" and what the Aura's meant by "you get the general character of a strain without the individual notes". Two reviews, two devices, the same sentence. If your jar is a terpinolene sativa with a citrus top that you actually want to hear, neither of these is the device, and the difference between them at that job is not worth arguing about.
The sweet, dessert, caryophyllene-and-myrcene side — the Wedding Cake job — is where both devices were actually tested, and where they both work. The Vita took Sherblato (caryophyllene, limonene, linalool, humulene — berry sherbet over creamy gelato, earthy cookie finish) and produced muted-but-present berry sweetness at 190°C, a creamy Gelato-parent body at 200°C, and a flat earthy cookie finish at 210°C. The Aura took Papaya (myrcene, linalool, caryophyllene — tropical sweetness, mango, earth) and produced recognisable fruit at ~185°C, deepening sweetness with a lavender linalool layer underneath at ~195°C, and flat extraction at ~215°C. Same shape, same arc, same conclusion in both reviews, arrived at independently: choose big, sweet, terpene-heavy flower for a conduction pocket device, because it survives the extraction method. The one comparative note that follows is the mouthpiece again — the Aura's own review admits Papaya's sweetness was partly working to "mask the plastic mouthpiece's flavour contribution". The Vita's PEEK isn't asking its flower to cover for it.
The call: on the evidence both reviews actually gathered, these two devices sit in the same drawer of the same shed. Both handle dessert and kush profiles adequately. Both flatten fragile top notes. The Vita's edge is real but narrow — cleaner terminal airpath, a cooler draw, more rungs on the temperature ladder — and it is nothing like the edge it holds in build, charging or value. Flavour is not why you buy either of these. It's just the reason you'll own something else as well.
A note for the record: when the control pair goes through both of these, this section gets rewritten. Until then, treat the above as terpene-family reading, not a like-for-like lap chart.
Design & Build
Winner: Wolkenkraft Vita, and this is the widest gap on the card. 7.5/10 versus 5.0/10.
The Vita is 72 grams of milled aluminium with a properly machined stainless steel chamber and a PEEK mouthpiece — medical-grade polymer, the stuff of dental implants and surgical instruments — with a ceramic filter behind it. At £78 those materials punch two weight classes above the price. It's made in Germany with a two-to-three-year warranty. The one honest unknown is that PEEK is newish in vape applications and nobody has long-term data on how it behaves after a thousand heat cycles; my week with it says nothing about year three.
The Aura's plastic mouthpiece is not an unknown. It cracks. Its review is unambiguous — not might, will; Jake's lasted a week, forum reports run weeks to months — and the consensus is that the material simply isn't durable enough for a part that gets heated repeatedly. The herb pod's gasket also loosens after three to six months; you'll feel the wobble before it seals badly. The metal body underneath all that is genuinely better than £69 suggests: slim, clean, unbranded from a distance, and it takes pocket carry without scratching. It's the moulding seam that goes, exactly like the green can's handle.
Winner: Vita, without qualification. One of these has a consumable you didn't know you were buying.
Battery & Charging
Winner: Flowermate Aura — its one clean win on the whole card. 7.0/10 versus 6.0/10.
2600mAh in a 90-gram pen body is a genuinely impressive piece of packaging, and it delivers 6–8 sessions at preset 2 against the Vita's 5–7. In a device this size that's a full evening or a weekend day out, and it's more capacity than several dearer pocket vapes carry.
Then it charges over Micro-USB. In 2026. Three hours, through a port the industry abandoned years ago, using a cable that is becoming an archaeological find in most houses. Pass-through isn't recommended either. The Vita's 1600mAh is the smaller tank and its own review calls it adequate rather than generous — but it's USB-C, it's full in under two hours, and it supports pass-through, so it can be used while plugged in. That's the whole argument in one line: the Aura holds more water and takes three hours at the tap; the Vita holds less and never stops you using it.
Neither battery is replaceable. Both are sealed. Whichever you buy, the battery is the clock on the device.
Ease of Use
Winner: Wolkenkraft Vita. 8.0/10 versus 7.0/10.
Both are five-clicks-on, one-button, no-app, no-screen devices with auto-shutoff, and both are about as complicated as a hose reel. The difference is feedback. The Vita vibrates when it reaches temperature, so you know it's ready without looking at it, and its LEDs confirm which of five presets you're on. The Aura gives you three colours — green, blue, red — and no vibration, and its own review's Mum test caught the flaw precisely: she pressed the button five times unprompted, then asked which colour she was supposed to want. Simple in theory, ambiguous in practice.
That ambiguity is a small thing right up until it isn't — low executive function, dark cinema, someone else's kitchen. A buzz in the palm needs no interpretation. A blue light needs a manual.
Cleaning & Maintenance
Winner: Wolkenkraft Vita. 6.0/10 versus 5.0/10, and neither is a triumph.
Both are standard conduction cleanup: brush the stainless chamber every couple of sessions, ISO the removable bits periodically. The Vita's tiny bowl means less residue per session, and early indications are that PEEK resists resin better than plastic does. Nothing clever — no ECA-style self-cleaning here — but nothing that stings, either.
The Aura's problem is that cleaning is where the crack usually arrives. The plastic mouthpiece needs a brief, lukewarm ISO soak — too hot or too long and you accelerate the degradation you're already braced for — while too little cleaning packs resin into a narrow airpath. Its review captured the mood better than any score can: I'm always aware the crack is coming. Maintenance you perform nervously is worse maintenance.
Portability
Winner: Wolkenkraft Vita. 10/10 versus 9.0/10 — the Vita's only perfect score, and one of very few on this site.
72 grams and 100mm. It is the lightest named-brand vaporiser you can buy: lighter than the Aura by 18g, lighter than a PAX Mini 2 by 17g, lighter than anything I've tested that has a brand and a warranty. It's shorter than a credit card is wide. It doesn't protrude from any pocket, and at a glance it reads as a USB stick or a power bank.
The Aura's 9 is not a criticism, it's a shape argument. Ninety grams is nothing, and pen form goes places a small slab doesn't: a shirt pocket, a handbag pen slot, behind an ear if you were the sort. Sarah has kept one in the pen pocket of her handbag for months without anyone noticing, which is documented in its review and remains the single most persuasive fact about the device. Two flavours of invisible: the Vita disappears by mass, the Aura by silhouette.
Value for Money
Winner: Wolkenkraft Vita, and it's the section that decides the match. 8.0/10 versus 6.0/10, with the price gap running the wrong way for the winner — the Vita is the dearer device by £9.
Nine pounds. That is the entire premium, and here is what it buys: an aluminium body over a plain metal one, PEEK and ceramic over cracking plastic, USB-C and pass-through over three-hour Micro-USB, five presets over three, vibration feedback over a colour code, German assembly with up to three years of warranty over two, and eighteen grams off. Nine quid is the difference between a can you keep and a can you replace.
The Aura's counter-argument is the box: herb, concentrate and oil pods included at £69, which nothing else at the price does, plus that 2600mAh cell. If you genuinely want all three pods, that's real money's worth. But its own review already ran the ownership maths and didn't flinch — at £5–10 a mouthpiece every few months, the Aura's total cost of ownership creeps up, and its "£69 is honest money" line comes with the caveat that it isn't cheap enough to be throwaway or dear enough to be an investment. An awkward middle. The Vita is the same awkward middle with better parts in it.
Score Comparison
| Category | Wolkenkraft Vita | Flowermate Aura |
|---|---|---|
| Vapour Quality | 5.5/10 | 5.0/10 |
| Design & Build | 7.5/10 | 5.0/10 |
| Battery & Charging | 6.0/10 | 7.0/10 |
| Ease of Use | 8.0/10 | 7.0/10 |
| Cleaning & Maintenance | 6.0/10 | 5.0/10 |
| Portability | 10/10 | 9.0/10 |
| Value for Money | 8.0/10 | 6.0/10 |
| Overall | 6.5/10 | 6.3/10 |
Read the card and the two-tenths looks like a typo. Six categories to one, including a two-and-a-half-point rout in build and a two-point rout in value — and the overall gap is 0.2. That's what happens when both devices are limited by the same physics: conduction through steel with no convection assist puts a ceiling over the pair of them, and the vapour score is the heaviest single weight in the calculation. The Vita wins the argument comfortably and wins the scoreboard narrowly, and the argument is the honest one.
Who Should Buy Which
Buy the Wolkenkraft Vita if you want the best-built ultra-portable under £80, full stop. You're carrying it because it's weightless, not because it's clever. You want a device you can hand to a beginner, a nervous first-timer or a medical patient who needs one button and a buzz — its review called it the most Mum-friendly device in the lineup and I stand by that. You want a charging port that exists in 2026, a mouthpiece with no countdown on it, and five rungs on the ladder instead of three. You've accepted that ~0.15g means reloading, and you consider that a fair price for 72 grams.
Buy the Flowermate Aura if the pen shape or the battery is the actual requirement. You need a device that reads as an e-cig from two metres and a biro from five. You need 6–8 sessions between charges because charging opportunities are scarce. You want the 0.3g bowl so an evening is one load, not three. You want concentrate and oil pods included rather than bought. And you've read the mouthpiece paragraph, accepted it as a running cost, and moved on — which is a legitimate position at £69, just not an uninformed one.
The wrong buyer for the Vita is anyone making it their only device: it's a pocket companion to a proper home vape, and its own review says exactly that. The wrong buyer for the Aura is anyone who'll be annoyed by a consumable — because annoyance is the one thing the Aura reliably produces at full strength.
How I Actually Choose
The shed decides, not the spreadsheet.
The Vita has been in a jacket pocket since it arrived, and the reason is unglamorous: I don't notice it, so I don't leave it behind. Quick errands, dog walks, the twenty-minute gap between two things where a proper device would be a whole production. Preset 2, ~0.15g, three or four draws, done. Its review admitted the Smono No.3 is better in every way except portability, and that remains true and remains irrelevant, because the Smono is at home on the desk and the Vita is in the coat by the door.
The Aura, in this house, is not really my device. Sarah uses it — at her mum's, in the pen pocket, months of it, nobody the wiser — and the Aura review's bio said the quiet part already: it's the device I recommend least and the one my partner uses most. Nothing since has changed that. She doesn't want convection, or degree control, or a mouthpiece made of surgical polymer. She wants a thing that sits next to a lipstick and raises no questions.
Mum came over on her monthly visit and I had both on the kitchen table. She picked the Vita up, said nothing much, and put it in her cardigan pocket while the kettle boiled. Two hours later she found it while making a second brew and announced, genuinely startled, "I've been carrying your vape around." That is the whole review, delivered by an unpaid tester over a cup of tea. Nobody has ever carried an Aura around by accident, because the pen shape means you always know it's a pen. Nobody carries a five-litre plastic can round the allotment without noticing either.
Between the two, on a normal week, the small steel one wins on frequency and the plastic one wins on the two occasions a month when shape beats everything. That's not a score. That's a shed.
The Verdict (The Bookend)
Nobody keeps two watering cans because they're indecisive. They keep two because the jobs are different sizes.
The galvanised one is the one you'd buy again. Two litres, a rose that stays clear, a handle that will never split, and the certainty that in fifteen years it will be doing exactly this. It makes you refill more often and you don't resent it, because everything else about it is settled. That's the Wolkenkraft Vita: 6.5 to 6.3, six categories out of seven, £9 dearer and worth every one of them — the lightest named-brand vape you can buy, built out of materials that have no business being at this price.
The green plastic one carries more water and cost a fiver, and there is a specific corner of the plot where its long spout is the only thing that reaches. That's the Flowermate Aura: 2600mAh, a 0.3g bowl, three pods in the box, and a pen silhouette that genuinely goes where nothing else goes — with a handle that will split, on a schedule, and you'll carry it two-handed and keep using it anyway.
If you're buying one pocket vaporiser under £80, buy the Vita. If your requirement is literally the pen shape or literally the battery, buy the Aura knowingly and budget for mouthpieces. And if you're buying your only vaporiser — neither. Get the hose.
FAQ
Wolkenkraft Vita vs Flowermate Aura — which should I buy? The Vita for almost everyone: it scores higher (6.5 vs 6.3), wins six of seven categories, weighs 18g less, charges over USB-C with pass-through, and has a mouthpiece that isn't a consumable. It costs £9 more (£78.00 vs £69.00). Buy the Aura only if the pen form factor or the 2600mAh battery is specifically what you're paying for.
Is £9 really worth it? Yes, and it's not close. Nine pounds buys PEEK and ceramic instead of cracking plastic, USB-C and pass-through instead of three-hour Micro-USB, five presets instead of three, vibration feedback instead of a colour code, and German assembly. The Aura's replacement mouthpieces alone — £5–10 every few months — erase the saving inside a year.
Which one has better battery life? The Aura: 2600mAh and 6–8 sessions against the Vita's 1600mAh and 5–7. But it takes about three hours over Micro-USB and pass-through isn't recommended, while the Vita is full in under two hours over USB-C and can be used while charging. More capacity, worse charging.
Does the Aura's mouthpiece really crack? Yes. It's the single most documented issue with the device and its review treats it as a when, not an if — Jake's went in a week, forum reports run weeks to months. Treat it gently, clean it lukewarm, and budget for spares. The Vita's PEEK mouthpiece has no such reputation, though PEEK is new enough in vape use that nobody has long-term durability data on it either.
Which is better for a complete beginner? The Vita. One button, five presets, and a vibration alert that tells you it's ready without you having to interpret anything. The Aura is just as simple in theory, but its three-colour LED system is genuinely ambiguous — Mum pressed the button correctly without instruction and then had to ask which colour she was supposed to want.
Is either of these good enough for flavour? No, and neither review pretends otherwise — 5.5 and 5.0 respectively. Both are pure conduction through a stainless chamber with no convection assist, and both flatten delicate citrus and pine notes into general strain character. Buy sweet, terpene-heavy flower for either. If flavour is your priority, spend the money on a convection device instead.
Can I use them for concentrates? The Aura, yes — herb, concentrate and oil pods come in the box, which is its genuine unique selling point at this price. The Vita is a dry-herb device only. If triple-use matters to you, that's the one reason to pick the Aura that has nothing to do with shape or battery.
About Dennis M.
Dennis M. has been reviewing vaporisers and vaping daily for the best part of a decade. He works in IT, has ADHD, and uses cannabis for chronic pain management. He lives in Manchester with his partner Sarah, who owns the Aura in this comparison in every sense that matters and has never once asked what PEEK is.
Dennis does not have an allotment. He has six pots by the back door, two watering cans, and strong opinions about both, which he accepts is a disproportionate ratio.
A note on spelling: 'vaporizer' is the de facto international spelling, but I've stuck with the British 'vaporiser' throughout this blog.
Questions, corrections, or a device you want tested? dennis@herbvape.co.uk
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Strains Used: Neither device has yet run the site's control pair (Jack Herer and Wedding Cake), so this comparison reads across terpene families rather than a like-for-like lap chart. Wolkenkraft Vita: Sherblato — hybrid, 20–24% THC, caryophyllene/limonene/linalool/humulene, sweet berry sherbet with creamy gelato and earthy cookie finish; Noidecs T15 Shiatsu Kush — indica medical, 15% THC, myrcene/caryophyllene/limonene, earthy kush with mild citrus. Flowermate Aura: Papaya — indica hybrid, 20–25% THC, myrcene/linalool/caryophyllene, tropical sweetness with mango and earthy undertone; Noidecs T10:C10 — balanced medical, 10% THC / 10% CBD, myrcene/caryophyllene/pinene, mild earthy herbal with gentle sweetness. Strain effects vary by individual, batch and consumption method.
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