Tipple vs Eat Drink Cheap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tipple
Get your favorite alcoholic beverages delivered to your door within 30 minutes. This app offers a wide selection of wines, beers, spirits, and bar accessories, all sourced from local independent shops. Enjoy fast delivery, special offers, and easy reordering.
- Alcohol delivery in 30 minutes
- Wide selection of wines, beers, and spirits
- Support local independent bottle shops
- Real-time order tracking
- Personalized gift orders
- Order history for fast reordering
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Need alcohol delivered fast? We got you. Tipple brings the bottle shop to you with a huge selection of alcohol delivered on demand in 30 mins. Best of all, every Tipple alcohol delivery comes direct from your local independent bottle shop, helping you to support local business with every order. All your faves in one place: • Boutique, international and specialty wines • Craft, local and imported beer & cider • Specialty spirits, bar staples and premix faves • Bar accessories, mixers and snacks Why you’ll love Tipple: • Save with free delivery promos, specials and value bundles • Discover something new with curated collections • Delivered fast in 30 mins with real-time order tracking • Reorder your faves fast from your order history • Surprise your mates with personalised gift orders • Plus a whole lot more! So the next time you need alcohol delivered, just Tipple it!
Eat Drink Cheap
Discover local pub specials, happy hours, and events based on your location or browse a map for nationwide offers. Filter by food, drinks, or events to find exactly what you're looking for.
- Location-based specials
- Map browsing
- Filter by food, drinks, events
- Search by suburb
- Nationwide offers
- Weekly verified offers
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The long-awaited v2 brings you a list of specials based on your location along with the ability to browse a map to see everything available anywhere. Filter by food (steak night, parma, bottomless, burgers etc), drinks (happy hour, pints, cocktails etc) or events (trivia, comedy, bingo) or dig deeper in to specific specials and limit to what's active right now. You can also search for a suburb and get a list in the location or switch instantly to map for planning for the future. We are Australia's most updated pub specials with more than 7,000 weekly offers nationwide verified every 3 months. You can be sure our results are the most updated, the most accurate and the easiest to find. We've been promoting venues for more than a decade and our web platform is the most comprehensive list in the land.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Tipple at every 3 weeks against Eat Drink Cheap's every 22 months. Tipple also leads on ratings volume (25 vs 1). Eat Drink Cheap's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Eat Drink Cheap holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tipple has 25 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Tipple's written reviews are positive against 60% of Eat Drink Cheap's.
Tipple ships an update every 3 weeks, Eat Drink Cheap every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tipple | Eat Drink Cheap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.8% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tipple Group Operations | Samuel Weller |
Customer experience
Tipple
Eat Drink Cheap
Bugs and requests
Tipple
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes and freezes
- App reopens automatically
- Cannot locate user
- Login issues
- Account verification pending issues
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- App slow regarding real time updates
Requested features
5 requests- Option to disable substitutions
- More transparent delivery area information
- Improved ID verification process
- Automated data entry for drivers
- Disable promotional push notifications while keeping driver updates
Eat Drink Cheap
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tipple
No in-app purchases
Eat Drink Cheap
No in-app purchases
