Tejas Beads vs Barrel of Beads
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tejas Beads
Discover a wide selection of natural gemstone beads, pearls, and jewelry-making supplies. This app offers both wholesale and retail options, backed by a reputation for top quality and excellent customer service.
- Natural gemstone beads
- Pearls
- Jewelry making supplies
- Wholesale options
- Retail options
- Top quality beads
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Wholesale and retail supplier of natural gemstone beads, pearls, and jewelry making supplies. Tejas Beads has a longstanding reputation for top quality beads and great customer service.
Barrel of Beads
Discover a vast selection of seed beads and beading supplies. This app aims to make it easy to find the specific colors and shapes you need for your projects, stocking thousands of options. Visit the retail store for an even wider selection.
- Extensive seed bead selection
- Variety of beading supplies
- Thousands of colors and styles
- Retail store location
- Online shopping
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Welcome Fellow Beaders. Thank you for visiting my store. My goal is to provide you with a place to find the best selection of seed beads and beading supplies. As someone who beads myself, I know how difficult it can be sometimes to find all those fantastic colors and shapes you see in the magazines. My hope is that you'll find them here and be back again and again. I enjoy looking through all the thousands of colors available in various seed beads and would love to have every one that is made. To that end, I try to carry as many colors and styles as possible. While I try to provide as accurate images as I can, nothing can compare to viewing them in person. So, please visit my store located at 508 Diamond Hill Rd, Woonsocket, RI. I've just opened the retail location after selling at bead shows along the east coast for a few years. My hope is that the store will allow me to expand my selection even further than the over 4,000 colors/sizes/styles I currently stock. It will be an amazing journey of expansion that I hope you will share. Thanks again for visiting my site and I hope to see you at the store someday. Warmly, Kevin
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Verdict
Tejas Beads and Barrel of Beads both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 95% of Tejas Beads's written reviews are positive against 78% of Barrel of Beads's. Tejas Beads also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and ratings volume (613 vs 199). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tejas Beads against 4.8 for Barrel of Beads. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 613 and 199 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 95% of Tejas Beads's written reviews are positive against 78% of Barrel of Beads's.
Tejas Beads ships an update every 2 months, Barrel of Beads every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tejas Beads | Barrel of Beads |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (613 ratings) — better | 4.8 (199 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.2% of reviews — better | 77.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 613 — better | 199 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 187 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tejas Beads LLC | Barrel of Beads, Inc |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
Tejas Beads
No in-app purchases
Barrel of Beads
No in-app purchases
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