Tertulia vs Dewey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Book recommendations from social media, podcasts, and web
- Reading list tracking
- Seamless book purchasing (US only)
- Bookstore membership benefits
- Discover trending books
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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.
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.
- AI-powered book discussions
- Digitize physical book notes
- Memory retention lessons
- Reading habit tracking
- Reading taste mapping
- Discover reading identity
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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/
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Dewey sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Tertulia asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
| Parameter | Tertulia | Dewey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (509 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 509 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 61 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tertulia, Inc. | Glenn Harris |
Customer experience
Tertulia
Dewey
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
Tertulia
No in-app purchases
Dewey
- Dewey Premium Monthly$5.991 Month
- Dewey Premium Annual$59.991 Year









