Comparison

Smartyplants vs Tepi

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

Head to head
About

Smartyplants

Effortlessly care for your indoor plants with real-time health monitoring, intelligent watering reminders, and personalized tips. Identify plants, track their growth, and ensure they thrive, whether you're a novice or an experienced gardener.

Highlights
  • Live plant health tracking
  • Smart watering reminders
  • Personalized care tips
  • Plant identification and library
  • Growth tracking and insights
Features
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Keep every plant in your home thriving with real-time health tracking, smart watering reminders, and tailored tips – all powered by our advanced plant sensor. Whether you’re a beginner or a green-thumb pro, SmartyPlants makes plant care effortless. Key Features: • Live Plant Health Tracking – Monitor moisture, light, and temperature in real time. • Smart Watering Reminders – Get alerts based on your plant’s actual needs, not a fixed schedule. • Personalised Care Tips – Advice tailored to each species for healthier, faster growth. • Plant Library – Identify and log your plants with rich care profiles. • Growth Tracking – See your plant’s progress over time with beautiful insights. Whether it’s your first houseplant or a whole indoor jungle, SmartyPlants ensures you’ll never guess when to water, move, or feed your plants again.

About

Tepi

Features
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Tepi puts every tado° room in one place. If your home mixes tado° V3+ and tado° X, or spreads them across two tado° accounts, you know the problem: two apps, or endless switching between homes. Tepi shows every room in a single list, with the same controls, and never asks which generation you meant. LOCAL, AND NO TADO° SIGN-IN NEEDED Every room, temperature and switch works without one. Changes go straight to the valve over HomeKit, on your own network: in under a second, with no round trip through anyone's servers, and they keep working when your internet is down or tado's API isn't answering. Signing in is optional. It adds what HomeKit doesn't carry: matching rooms to tado°, device health, day-by-day history for V3+, handing a room back to its tado° schedule, and reaching your home when you're away without a HomePod or Apple TV. WHAT'S IN IT • Every room, both generations, all accounts, with current temperature, target, humidity and whether the radiator is actually heating • tado° X paired straight to Apple Home, one room per room however many devices it has • Instant control: drag the bar, nudge by half a degree, Boost or Off • Room groups: switch Upstairs off, or send the bedrooms to Eco, in one tap • Comfort and Eco: two temperatures you set once and send to every room or to a group • Quick actions: All off, Comfort, Eco and Resume from the Home Screen icon • Favourites, custom names, hidden rooms and drag-to-reorder • Link a room to its tado° room by hand when the names don't match • One tap to hand a room, a group or the whole house back to its tado° schedule • Siri and Shortcuts: a room, a group or the whole house, by voice or in a shortcut • Apple Watch: every room on your wrist, with the Digital Crown, Off, Boost, Comfort, Eco and your groups • Room history for tado° V3+, kept by tado°, so it's complete even when the app was closed • Battery, firmware and connectivity for every device TEPI ASSIST (EXPERIMENTAL, OPTIONAL) Off until you turn it on. Presence reminds you when you leave home and when you come back: one tap sets the house to Eco, or hands it back to its tado° schedule. Suggestions learn what you usually do and offer it at the right moment, as few or as many as you like. With Apple Weather on, it also suggests heating up before a cold evening. Tepi learns on your iPhone, and nothing changes until you tap. WHAT IT NEEDS Your tado° devices have to be visible in Apple's Home app. For tado° V3+ that's the Internet Bridge you already own; no hub is required. tado° X uses Matter over Thread, so your home needs Thread, usually from a HomePod, an Apple TV or another Thread border router. Tepi explains what's missing. PRIVACY No servers, no accounts, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. Your tado° data goes from tado° to your phone and nowhere else, and nothing is collected in the background. If you use Presence, your exact home location stays on your iPhone too. The only thing that ever reaches the developer is a support email, if you write one. You can attach a short summary of your setup: it's off unless you turn it on, and you see every word first. FREE, AND DELIBERATELY SMALL No subscription, no ads, no in-app purchases. Tepi is built by one person who got tired of switching between two apps to heat one house. Feedback is very welcome: hello@tepiapp.com. Tepi is an independent app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or supported by tado GmbH. tado° is a trademark of tado GmbH.

Screenshots

Smartyplants3 screens
Tepi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tepi at every 5 days against Smartyplants's every 3 weeks. Smartyplants's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smartyplants ships an update every 3 weeks, Tepi every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Smartyplants versus Tepi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartyplantsTepi
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size67 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSmartyPlants LtdThiago Regal da Silva

In-app purchases

None

Smartyplants

No in-app purchases

None

Tepi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smartyplants free?
Smartyplants is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tepi free?
Tepi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Smartyplants or Tepi have ads?
Neither Smartyplants nor Tepi shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smartyplants or Tepi?
Smartyplants ships an update every 3 weeks, and Tepi every 5 days. Most recently, Smartyplants was updated on October 7, 2026 and Tepi on October 16, 2026.

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