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Tessie

The Tesla companion app

Tessie
No findings published
App Store rating4.8★9.7K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age4+Store age rating
Size271 MBiPhone download
CategoryLifestyle
DeveloperTessie

At a glance

Full report

Things to watch for 0

Nothing published. That is not a guarantee the app is problem-free.

Positives 0

No specific positive published.

From our automated analysis, 16 Oct 2026.

This analysis describes version 16.1.8 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-16 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 16.1.8, updated 2026-10-04.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Join over 500,000 Tesla drivers using Tessie to track, automate and protect their vehicles.

Try it free! Requires a subscription or one-time payment. Happiness guaranteed or your money back.

- Track your trips

- Track your battery and compare it to others

- Track charging and phantom drain

- Monitor and control your Tesla using AI, including ChatGPT, Claude & Grok

- Automate your Tesla using schedules and triggers

- Get notified about driving, charging, Sentry events and more

- Add a live charging view to your Lock Screen

- View real-time OBD-level diagnostics using Profiler

- Use your Apple Watch to control your Tesla

- Use your Mac or PC to control your Tesla from your web browser

- Integrate your Tesla with Alexa, Home Assistant, HomeKit and more

Plus, import your existing data from TezLab, TeslaFi, Teslascope and TeslaMate.

All data is 100% yours.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

0 published · 1 shown, not confirmed

One source only — shown, not confirmed 1

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Price keeps rising

One source only

Price keeps rising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.5% of 331 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The price of the paid tier has been raised on existing users.

Open evidence

Nothing was published as a thing to watch for in this assessment. That is not a finding that nothing is wrong with the app.

What reviewers report

331 reviews read · 1 review-based observation

331 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Price keeps rising

Shown, not confirmed

App is great, new price is outrageous — The app itself is good, no complaints and the details are insightful. The problem is the developer more than tripled the price and it just isn’t worth it. In response to what the developer wrote, I…

1★ · App Store · 2024-10-13

Worth every penny until they increased price like crazy — I don't see the real value now with a $15 monthly charge, while other similar app like Stats only charge $5. And Tessie's lifetime membership is a hefty $400!!!

1★ · App Store · 2024-09-15

Nice app but crazy expensive — The features this app has will never be worth $180/year, that’s wild. Pretty though! Nice watch integration! Bonkers price. Edit: Dev has been fleecing with high prices for months with the claim Tesla will…

2★ · App Store · 2024-08-31

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 16 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 16.1.8 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-16 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 16.1.8, updated 2026-10-04.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 16.1.8 · 2026-10-04
Control your vehicle using ChatGPT, Claude and Grok. Connect AI agents and models to your vehicles using Tessie's new MCP server. Explore global driving and charging stats. View total energy charged in Battery Health. Many new data points in Profiler. Manage connected apps and permissions in Settings > Security. Many other small improvements and bug fixes.
Version 16.0.30 · 2026-09-03
Minor bug fixes and improvements.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
tessie-apple-1496718223
Assessment date
16 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
331
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-16 from 331 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-16 Version analyzed: 16.1.83 independent signals331 reviews scannedConfidence: HighNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.77 ★ · 9,696 ratings
Version
16.1.8
Updated
4 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
4+
Size
271 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
Tessie
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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