Comparison

Tertulia vs Dewey

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

Head to head
About

Tertulia

Discover your next favorite book with curated recommendations from across the web. Organize your reading lists and purchase books seamlessly. Enjoy the best bookstore membership for passionate readers.

Highlights
  • Book recommendations from social media, podcasts, and web
  • Reading list tracking
  • Seamless book purchasing (US only)
  • Bookstore membership benefits
  • Discover trending books
Features
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Welcome booklovers! Tertulia is a one-stop shop for finding your next great read, keeping track of your reading lists and purchasing books with the best bookstore membership for avid readers. Tertulia serves up book recommendations from across social media, podcasts, and the web — all in one app which incorporates seamless book purchasing (US only). If a book has moved someone enough to get them talking, you can find it, buy it, and share it on Tertulia.

About

Dewey

Engage in deep conversations about any book with AI personas, digitize your notes and highlights from physical pages, and build lasting reading habits. Discover your reading identity and map your literary tastes.

Highlights
  • AI-powered book discussions
  • Digitize physical book notes
  • Memory retention lessons
  • Reading habit tracking
  • Reading taste mapping
  • Discover reading identity
Features
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Dewey is the reading companion for people who want more from every book: a real conversation, a home to document what mattered, and the tools to actually remember it. TALK THROUGH ANY BOOK Ever finish a book and wish you had someone to think it through with? Choose a persona: a Literary Critic, a Professor, a well-read Friend, or the Editor (The Writing Room) and discuss any book in your library. Ask about themes and characters, push back on an argument, or take a finished book apart to see how it was built. Every conversation is shaped by the exact book you're reading and designed to fo deep on whatever sticks out to you! Beware the virtual author might disagree with you! SNAP A PHOTO-CAPTURE EVERYTHING Photograph a page and Dewey pulls your highlights and handwritten notes into clean, editable text. Save quotes and add reflections chapter by chapter. Your best thinking for all of your books for the first ever lives in one Notebook. Dewey is built to be an additive tool, we still expect you to still highlight and write margin notes in your physical book, we just centralize your ideas so they're accessible at any time. REMEMBER WHAT YOU READ You're not alone- so many times we often find ourselves saying "I can't remember anything of what I read" with most books fading within days of finishing it. Dewey's daily memory lessons teach the science of retention (i.e. the forgetting curve, spaced repetition, active recall etc.) so what you read actually sticks. MAP YOUR TASTE Rate every finished book by craft and impact and watch your whole library arrange itself on your Reading Map. BUILD A READING HABIT Track a daily reading streak, log the days you read on a calendar, and watch your year add up and see how many books you finished, pages read, genres explored etc.. DISCOVER YOUR READING IDENTITY Your habits reveal more than you think. See your Reading DNA, the themes you return to, your reading personality etc. all drawn from the books you read and the notes you take. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Tertulia4 screens
Dewey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tertulia at none against Dewey's 2. Tertulia also leads on ratings volume (509 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Dewey's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads and device support 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. Dewey sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Tertulia asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dewey holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tertulia has 509 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tertulia versus Dewey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTertuliaDewey
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (509 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews67.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings509 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB61 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperTertulia, Inc.Glenn Harris

Customer experience

Tertulia

All ratings507 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral1.6%
Negative4.3%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive67.2%
Neutral8.2%
Negative24.6%

Dewey

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Tertulia

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Frequent crashes and freezes
  • Login and account issues
  • Disappearing user book lists
  • Inconsistent pricing and shipping information

Requested features

4 requests
  • iPad app version
  • Ability to rate and review books read
  • Improved personalized recommendations
  • Smoother scrolling and list management

Dewey

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Tertulia

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Dewey

Subscriptions2
  • Dewey Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Dewey Premium Annual$59.991 Year

Questions

Is Tertulia free?
Tertulia is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dewey free?
Dewey is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tertulia or Dewey?
Dewey is rated higher. Tertulia averages 4.7 out of 5 from 509 ratings, while Dewey averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Tertulia or Dewey have ads?
Neither Tertulia nor Dewey shows ads.

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