Tessie vs FleetCtrl
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!
FleetCtrl
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Your Tesla, live. Not a snapshot from the last time an app woke the car up: a stream, straight from your car, the whole time. FleetCtrl was built by a Tesla owner for the rest of us, around one idea: you already love this car. Here's more of it. ENHANCED SENTRY MODE Sentry Mode records. FleetCtrl can make the car react. Switch on Enhanced Sentry and the moment your Tesla notices a Sentry event, the lights flash and the car sounds off, within seconds, while a time-sensitive alert reaches your phone. The sound is your choice: the horn, or the car's own lock chime, which means whatever custom lock sound you've given your Tesla now stands guard over it. Pick lights, sound or both, set how many times the lights flash, and set quiet hours so the car keeps the peace overnight. It's optional. Leave it off and you still get the alert. CHARGING, ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN A Live Activity follows every charging session from plug-in to charged, on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. Battery, charge limit, power, amps and rate, with a range bar that fills as the charge goes in. Time remaining and the estimated completion time, so at a glance you always know when the car is ready to go. ALERTS THAT ARRIVE WHEN IT MATTERS A Sentry event, battery running low, the cabin getting hot, a software update waiting and which version of FSD it brings: each one lands the moment the car reports it. Every alert is toggleable, so you're in control of what matters to you. NEVER LOSE A SONG, WITH MUSIC HISTORY That track that came on somewhere on the freeway, the one you meant to look up and never did. FleetCtrl keeps a music history of what your Tesla has played, artwork and all. Scroll back to it, tap it, and it opens instantly and starts playing in the same app on your phone, whether that's Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube Music. LIVE TELEMETRY Everything the car reports, in real time. Battery and range, charging, speed and gear, cabin and outside temperature, self-driving, media, doors, locks, windows, tyre pressures and Sentry. The home screen shows the state of the car this second, and the live feed shows every reading the moment it arrives. CONTROLS THAT FEEL INSTANT Start with climate. A 24-hour chart shows cabin and outside temperature side by side. Set a temperature, start the climate, and watch the chart respond in real time. The right control is always within reach and the state of each one is clear at a glance, so you can see what's locked, open or on before you touch anything. Every control responds the moment you tap it and shows the car's real response. PERFORMANCE PROFILER How much horsepower is your Tesla really making? Your car never says. FleetCtrl works it out, live, from the torque and RPM of every motor. Start a session, drive, and see your peak horsepower, g-force, top speed and motor temperatures. Sessions are ranked, so your best run is always on the board and the next one has something to beat. SELF-DRIVING, BY THE NUMBERS How much of your driving does your Tesla do for you? FleetCtrl keeps score. Every day's distance, split into self-driven and human-driven, with the percentage charted day by day: a bar for how far you went, a line for how much of it the car handled. Watch the share climb as you trust it more, and see the running total of how far FSD has driven you. PRIVACY, PROPERLY FleetCtrl never collects your car's location and never asks for your phone's. Your telemetry runs the app for you, and that's all it does. GETTING STARTED Sign in, connect your Tesla account, and pair your Tesla with a tap of Approve in the Tesla app. Under a minute, all from your phone, revocable anytime. Full access is a monthly subscription, free for the first week, cancel any time in the app or your Apple Account settings. It's what keeps FleetCtrl independent and improving. Terms of Service: https://fleetctrl.app/terms FleetCtrl is an independent app, not affiliated with or endorsed by Tesla, Inc. Tesla is a trademark of Tesla, Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Tessie at 3 against FleetCtrl's 1. Tessie also leads on iOS requirement (16.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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 FleetCtrl sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Tessie | FleetCtrl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9.6K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 63.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9.6K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 258 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tessie | Gareth Hall |
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
FleetCtrl
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
FleetCtrl
- FleetCtrl Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month







