Comparison

Beehive Connections vs Tintello

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

Head to head
About

Beehive Connections

Discover native Utah plants to replace lawns, plan your garden with a visual tool, and find local rebates for water conservation. Identify species, track environmental impact, and connect with other gardeners.

Highlights
  • Native plant database with bloom times and water needs
  • Visual garden planner with scoring
  • Rebate finder for turf removal and water conservation
  • Species identification via iNaturalist
  • Water savings calculator
  • Community garden sharing and tips
Features
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Beehive Connections helps Utah gardeners replace water-hungry lawns with native plants that support local pollinators. PLAN YOUR GARDEN Browse 79 verified Utah native plants with bloom times, water needs, and pollinator ratings backed by National Wildlife Federation data. Use the visual garden planner to design your space and get a real-time score from A+ to F. FIND REBATES Access 20 real turf removal and water conservation rebate programs across the Wasatch Front, including state and water district programs worth up to $3 per square foot. LEARN AND IDENTIFY Identify species with iNaturalist integration. Learn which plants support the most butterflies, moths, and specialist bees. Explore 49 Utah noxious weeds with identification info and reporting links. SAVE WATER Calculate your water savings when switching from traditional lawn to native landscaping. Track your environmental impact over time. CONNECT Join your neighborhood on the map. Share garden progress and exchange tips with nearby gardeners. Earn badges for building pollinator-friendly habitats. Built for Utah. Every plant, rebate, and nursery in the app is verified and local.

About

Tintello

Engage in a calm daily practice focused on colors and their origins. Explore over 700 colors with fascinating stories and discover curated palettes. This app offers a mindful experience without timers or pressure, perfect for a few minutes of focused attention.

Highlights
  • Daily color practice
  • Color origin stories
  • Themed color palettes
  • Mindful attention exercises
  • No timers or scores
  • Vocabulary building
Features
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Tintello is a calm daily practice built around color and curiosity. You look at a color name, choose from four swatches, and find out where that color came from and why it matters. No timers. No scores. No streak pressure. Just a few minutes of focused attention and a growing vocabulary for something most people never slow down to notice. --- WHY IT SETTLES YOU DOWN Behavioral researchers have long observed that brief, absorbing tasks, ones that occupy attention at a level matched to skill, without time pressure or competition, shift the mind toward a calmer state. Mindfulness research supports the same mechanism: slow, deliberate attention to sensory detail quiets the kind of mental chatter that drives daily stress. Tintello is designed around that. The pace is yours. The stakes are low. The engagement is real. --- 700+ COLORS WITH REAL STORIES Every color in Tintello comes from somewhere. Cobalt is named after a goblin that German miners blamed for poisoning their ore. Vermilion fueled the Renaissance. Saffron costs more per gram than gold. After each answer, you get the lore: a short fact drawn from art history, etymology, natural science, or cultural context. Three to five facts per color. The kind of things that make you look at the world differently afterward. --- 200+ PALETTES. EACH ONE A WORLD. Every color belongs to a themed palette built around a place, a season, a cuisine, a mood, or an architectural tradition. Venice. High Desert. Raku Ceramics. Parisian Cafes. Coastal Japan. The Dead Sea at Dusk. Browse 200+ palettes organized by theme and mood. Pick what calls to you. Take your time. --- A SMALL RITUAL THAT EARNS ITS PLACE A new palette waits each morning. Ten colors, a few minutes, no pressure. The kind of thing you can fold into a morning routine, a lunch break, or the quiet before sleep, and actually look forward to. --- Download Tintello. Find out how many colors you already know, and how many have been waiting for you to notice them.

Screenshots

Beehive Connections4 screens
Tintello4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Beehive Connections at 3 against Tintello's 1. Beehive Connections also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Beehive Connections against 5.0 for Tintello. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Beehive Connections versus Tintello: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeehive ConnectionsTintello
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB48 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMARCUS LANE PENGUEPaul Gedeon

Customer experience

Beehive Connections

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tintello

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

In-app purchases

None

Beehive Connections

No in-app purchases

None

Tintello

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Beehive Connections free?
Beehive Connections is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tintello free?
Tintello is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Beehive Connections or Tintello?
Beehive Connections and Tintello are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Beehive Connections or Tintello have ads?
Neither Beehive Connections nor Tintello shows ads.

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