Comparison

Tailscale vs Poeto

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tailscale

Securely connect devices, users, and workloads with a mesh VPN built on WireGuard. It brings identity to network access, enabling Zero Trust principles across diverse environments. Modernize your network for homelabs, businesses, and cloud infrastructure.

Highlights
  • Secure mesh networking
  • Identity-based access control
  • Zero Trust security
  • WireGuard-based VPN
  • Homelab and business VPN
  • Cloud and workload connectivity
  • Hardware-agnostic overlay network
Features
Currently charting
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Securely connect people, workloads, and even AI agents to anything on the internet with Tailscale, the secure connectivity platform built on WireGuard®. Tailscale brings identity to the network layer so you can control access based on users, groups, tags, and devices instead of IP addresses, applying Zero Trust principles end-to-end across every environment. Tailscale transforms your existing network from a legacy hub and spoke model to a modern, lightweight, and responsive mesh networking architecture that eliminates single points of failure and delivers better performance, scalability, and security for your end users, devices, and remote resources. Tailscale can be used for your Homelab VPN and connectivity, Business VPN, Workload Connectivity across clouds, Kubernetes clusters, regions, and environments, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Edge & IoT, CI/CD, and Securing AI – all on the same platform. Replace legacy VPNs, connect workloads across on-prem and cloud infrastructure providers, power Zero Trust initiatives, and make remote access secure by simplifying software-defined networking and security operations. Modernize your home, your organization, and your enterprise networking at scale with Tailscale. Tailscale is hardware-agnostic, so you can make decisions about your hardware independently from decisions about your network. Tailscale creates an overlay network, using your existing network, so you can incrementally deploy Tailscale without needing new network switches or to change your network architecture. Tailscale integrates with 100+ technologies and dozens of identity providers, and is available on a wide range of platforms — including Apple’s macOS, iOS, and tvOS — so you can securely connect from wherever you work.

About

Poeto

This keyboard app simplifies typing in Esperanto by providing quick access to special characters and an autocomplete lexicon. It offers a secure, fast, and user-friendly experience, functioning like a standard system keyboard with added Esperanto support. It also includes both light and dark modes for user preference.

Highlights
  • Easy access to special Esperanto characters
  • Autocomplete lexicon
  • Secure on-device processing
  • Fast performance
  • Light and dark modes
  • User-friendly interface
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Mi desegnis ĉi tiun klavaron por faciligi la tajpadon en esperanto. Ĝi provizas facilan aliron al specialaj signoj (ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ, kaj ŭ), kaj ankaŭ aŭtokompletan leksikonon. Ĝi subtenas ambaŭ mallumajn kaj mallumajn reĝimojn. Poeto-klavaro estas: - Sekura: Poeto ne postulas plenan aliron, do ĉio, kion vi tajpas, iras rekte al la aplikaĵo, kiun vi uzas kaj nenie aliloke. - Rapida: ĉiu prilaborado okazas sur la aparato, kaj la aplikaĵo estis vaste profilita - Facila uzebla: funkcias same kiel la sistema klavaro, sed kun speciala esperanta signaro --- I designed this keyboard to make typing in Esperanto easier. It provides easy access to special characters (ĉ, ĝ, ĥ, ĵ, ŝ, and ŭ), as well as an autocomplete lexicon. It supports both light and dark modes. Poeto keyboard is: - Secure: Poeto does not require full access, so anything you type goes directly to the application you're using and nowhere else. - Fast: all processing happens on the device, and the application has been extensively profiled - Easy to use: works just like the system keyboard, but with a special Esperanto character set

Screenshots

Tailscale3 screens
Poeto3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Poeto at 100% against Tailscale's 61%. Poeto also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and monetization model (free vs freemium). Tailscale's advantage is ratings volume (747 vs 15) and chart position (#78 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Poeto holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tailscale has 747 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 61% of Tailscale's written reviews are positive against 100% of Poeto's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Tailscale versus Poeto: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTailscalePoeto
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (747 ratings)4.9 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings747 — better15
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNo—
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
Best chart rank#78 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TV — better—
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTailscale Inc.Tom Heinan

Customer experience

Tailscale

All ratings747 ratings
Positive83.8%
Neutral3.2%
Negative13.0%
Written reviews450 reviews
Positive60.9%
Neutral10.9%
Negative28.2%

Poeto

Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Tailscale

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Inability to connect or authenticate
  • Exit node feature not working as expected
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching networks
  • App getting stuck in a loading state

Requested features

5 requests
  • On-demand VPN connection
  • Ability to switch between multiple accounts
  • More granular control over exit nodes
  • Integration with other networking tools
  • Dark mode option

Poeto

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Tailscale

No in-app purchases

None

Poeto

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tailscale free?
Tailscale is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Poeto free?
Poeto is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tailscale or Poeto?
Poeto is rated higher. Tailscale averages 4.4 out of 5 from 747 ratings, while Poeto averages 4.9 from 15 ratings.

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