Tessie vs Motion Beats
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tessie
Enhance your Tesla ownership with detailed tracking, powerful automations, and real-time diagnostics. Monitor trips, battery health, charging, and receive important event notifications. Integrate with smart home systems and control your vehicle from various devices.
- Trip tracking
- Battery health analytics
- Charging and phantom drain tracking
- Live charging view
- Automations with schedules and triggers
- Event notifications
- Real-time OBD diagnostics
- Cross-platform control (Apple Watch, Web)
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Join over 500,000 Tesla drivers using Tessie to track, automate and protect their vehicles. Try it free! Requires a subscription or one-time payment. Happiness guaranteed or your money back. - Track your trips - Track your battery and compare it to others - Track charging and phantom drain - Monitor and control your Tesla using AI, including ChatGPT, Claude & Grok - Automate your Tesla using schedules and triggers - Get notified about driving, charging, Sentry events and more - Add a live charging view to your Lock Screen - View real-time OBD-level diagnostics using Profiler - Use your Apple Watch to control your Tesla - Use your Mac or PC to control your Tesla from your web browser - Integrate your Tesla with Alexa, Home Assistant, HomeKit and more Plus, import your existing data from TezLab, TeslaFi, Teslascope and TeslaMate. All data is 100% yours. View it, use it, export it or delete it. Tessie is built from the ground up for security using industry-leading best practices. Terms: tessie.com/terms Have questions or need help? Chat with us at support@tessie.com!
Motion Beats
Experience realistic engine sounds that dynamically change with your movement. Simply start the engine and move to hear the sound respond to your speed and acceleration using your phone's sensors. Explore a variety of unique sound styles, from petrol engines to spaceships.
- Motion-based engine sound simulation
- Reacts to speed and acceleration
- Uses phone's built-in sensors
- Variety of sound styles
- Single purchase for all sounds
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Motion Beats is a beautiful and minimalistic motion-based engine sound simulator. The app plays engine sounds that react to speed and acceleration — using only the phone’s built-in sensors. No external devices needed — only access to location services. First, press the Start Engine button. Then, start moving — and the sound will follow. Choose from a variety of sound styles: • Petrol Engine • V8 2.9L Biturbo • V8 4L Biturbo • Digital • Spaceship • Electroship • Diesel Engine • Heavy Truck • Horse • Jet Airplane • Heartbeat • Racing Radio sound modifier for a more immersive experience • The petrol engine sound is available for free • Get all sounds with a single purchase — no subscriptions
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Verdict
Tessie and Motion Beats both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Motion Beats's written reviews are positive against 64% of Tessie's. Tessie's advantage is ratings volume (9.7K vs 5) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Tessie sells 15 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Motion Beats sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Tessie against 4.8 for Motion Beats. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tessie has 9.7K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 64% of Tessie's written reviews are positive against 100% of Motion Beats's.
Tessie ships an update weekly, Motion Beats every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tessie | Motion Beats |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9.7K ratings) | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9.7K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 258 MB | 76 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tessie | Dmitrii Tseiler |
Customer experience
Tessie
Motion Beats
Bugs and requests
Tessie
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inaccurate weather data
- Missing trip and charging history
- Unreliable Apple Watch integration
Requested features
4 requests- Charging schedule and preconditioning options
- More customization and widget support
- Sentry mode camera access
- Improved Apple Watch reliability
Motion Beats
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tessie
- Legacy14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Legacy14 Days trial2 variants$4.991 Month
- Legacy1 Month trial$4.991 Month
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- Basic14 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Pro14 Days trial$12.991 Month
- Pro14 Days trial$14.991 Month
- Legacy14 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Tessie14 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Legacy14 Days trial$49.991 Year
- Tessie1 Month trial$69.991 Year
- Basic14 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Pro14 Days trial$129.991 Year
- Pro14 Days trial$149.991 Year
- Legacy (Lifetime)$199.99
- Tessie$399.99
Motion Beats
- All Sounds Lifetime$14.99
