Tessie vs Riverkin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tessie
Enhance your Tesla ownership with advanced tracking, AI-powered control, and automation features. Monitor trips, battery health, charging, and receive real-time notifications. Integrates with smart home devices and offers web and Apple Watch control.
- Trip tracking
- Battery health monitoring
- AI-powered vehicle control
- Automation with schedules and triggers
- Real-time notifications
- Apple Watch and web browser control
- Smart home integrations
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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!
Riverkin
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Riverkin draws your family as a river. Everyone stands at the year they were born and every line runs from parents to children, so a whole family reads in one look: who came when, who overlapped, who is still here. Someone in your family has usually done the typing already. Riverkin keeps a family in a single file. Send it by AirDrop, mail or message, or hold your screen up to the phone across the table and let it read the codes. Opening a file adds the people you were missing and fills in the dates you did not have — and where two copies disagree, it asks you rather than quietly overwriting anything. EVERYONE AT THEIR YEAR Drag along the years and the river shows who was alive in that one. Turn the phone sideways for the whole family on a single screen. Each branch of the family has its own colour, and a person's page is tinted with the colour of their own line. HOW YOU ARE RELATED Say who you are, and every person carries their tie to you: your first cousin two generations younger, your half-sister, your stepfather, your partner's aunt. None of it is stored. Every tie is walked from the parents each time it is shown, so it stays right the moment you correct something. BIRTHDAYS Today tells you whose birthday it is and what is coming in the next fortnight, with ages worked out for you. Reminders arrive on the morning itself. MORE THAN ONE FAMILY Keep your mother's side and your father's side as separate families and switch between them. Step-parents and the families they bring with them have a place too. EVERYBODY, FOUND Search a name, a town, an e-mail address or a year. Call, message, mail or find your way to anyone whose details you have written down. YOURS ALONE Riverkin runs entirely on your phone. There is no account to make, no sign-in, nothing uploaded and no server anywhere — it does not use the internet at all. Lock it behind Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode, and it covers itself when you swap apps. IN ENGLISH AND IN DUTCH Every screen, every date and every word for a relative, including the ones English runs together and Dutch keeps apart. On iPhone and on iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Riverkin at none against Tessie's 10. Tessie's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Tessie sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Riverkin asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tessie ships an update weekly, Riverkin every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tessie | Riverkin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9.7K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 63.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9.7K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 259 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tessie | Ram Steenhaut |
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
Riverkin
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tessie
- Legacy14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Legacy14 Days trial$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$49.991 Year
- Basic14 Days trial$69.991 Year
- Pro14 Days trial$129.991 Year
- Legacy (Lifetime)$199.99
Riverkin
No in-app purchases









