Comparison

PS Deals vs DripCast

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

Head to head
About

PS Deals

Track prices for PlayStation games and add-ons across multiple regions. Receive instant notifications for price drops and set desired price alerts. Compare prices with other marketplaces and access detailed game information.

Highlights
  • PlayStation game price tracking
  • Instant price drop notifications
  • Desired price alerts
  • Price comparison with marketplaces
  • Detailed game information
  • Multi-region support
  • Add-on tracking
Features
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PS Deals is a unique PlayStation games price tracker in the official PlayStation Store. With instant price drop notifications! Track prices, buy games cheaper or get them for free with PS Deals app - a must have for any gamer! Even better, access all information in one place - price history, reviews, ratings, cheats, screenshots, what’s inside, release dates for every game and add-on. Still reading? Ok, lets cover the most important features: - All PSN Games & Deals PS Deals contains all available PlayStation Stores games & add-ons with up-to-date prices. Find out even hidden discounts! 47 countries currently supported. Platforms: PS5, PS4, PS3, PS Vita, PSP. - Price drop Notifications Subscribe and receive price drop notifications for all your favorite games and add-ons. Earlier than others… much earlier ;) - All about Games PS Deals features detailed PlayStation games information with video reviews, ratings, price history and statistics, cheats, screenshots, what’s inside, release dates and much more - Marketplaces Compare PlayStation Store prices with other marketplaces like Amazon. - Desired Price (available with Premium Subscription) Set the desired price for game/add-on and receive notifications only when it passes the threshold. - Compare Prices Compare prices for bundles, single games, special editions in one or multiple regions from single game's page. - Detailed Price Stats (available with Premium Subscription) Check highest/lowest/average prices, full price history, how many times and when the game (or add-on) was on sale. We will also give our suggestions if you should buy it now based on all stats we carefully gather. - Multi-regions (available with Premium Subscription) Track all discounts and explore new games from different PlayStation regions in one feed. 
No stores switching needed. - Add-Ons PS Deals supports add-ons with the same powerful functionality as for single games and bundles - be notified about price drops, explore new add-ons for your favorite PlayStation games and get detailed description! - What's inside See what additional content included with the game purchase. - And many more Metacritic reviews, Games Collections, News, PlayStation Plus freebies, PlayStation Extra Subscription games, PS+ Premium games, upcoming releases... ------- Platforms: - PlayStation 5 - PlayStation 4 - PlayStation VR - PlayStation 3 - PlayStation Vita - PSP ------- 47 Countries Supported: - United States - Argentina - Australia - Austria - Belgium - Brazil - Bulgaria - Canada - Chile - Czech Republic - Denmark - Germany - Greece - Spain - Finland - France - Hong Kong - Hungary - Iceland - India - Indonesia - Ireland - Israel - Italy - Japan - Korea (South) - Malaysia - Mexico - Netherlands - New Zealand - Norway - Poland - Portugal - Romania - Russia - Saudi Arabia - Singapore - Slovakia - South Africa - Sweden - Switzerland - Taiwan - Thailand - Turkey - Ukraine - United Arab Emirates - United Kingdom ------- Unlock all features with PS Deals Premium Subscription: Add-ons, Multi-region Feed, Multi-region Notifications, Price Stats, Price Comparison, Desired Price and Ads removal 1-Month Premium - $4.99 3-Month Premium - $11.99 12-Month Premium - $29.99 ------- Price may vary by location. Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. ------- Privacy Policy: https://psdeals.net/privacy Terms of Service: https://psdeals.net/terms

About

DripCast

This news app delivers personalized daily briefings that can be read or listened to. It adapts to your interests, offering trending stories and special event coverage. Enjoy a seamless experience switching between text and audio formats.

Highlights
  • Personalized daily news briefings
  • Switch between reading and listening
  • Adaptive feed based on interests
  • Trending stories in real-time
  • Special event coverage
  • Includes horoscopes, history, and weather
Features
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DripCast — The News You Can't Live Without. Read or Listen. Switch between the two without missing a beat. You're the person who reads the headlines at breakfast, refreshes them at lunch, and falls asleep to a podcast. News isn't a habit for you — it's a heartbeat. DripCast was built for exactly that obsession — and it meets you however the moment finds you. Got a free minute and a screen? Read every word. Hands full on the commute, at the gym, doing the dishes, walking the dog? Press play and listen. Same stories, same feed — two ways to dive in, and you choose in the moment. This is news that pours in like a steady drip — short, sharp, and impossible to put down. YOUR DAILY DRIP Every single day, DripCast hand-pours a fresh briefing made for you. The biggest stories. The deepest context. No noise, no clutter, no 14 open tabs. Just press play and let the day's most important news flow straight into your ears — beautifully narrated, intelligently summarized, always up to date. READ IT, HEAR IT, OR BOTH Every Drip works two ways, perfectly in sync. Read the full story now, then tap play and pick up exactly where you stopped — in crystal-clear, natural-sounding audio. Started listening on your walk? Open the app later and the text is right there, ready to finish with your eyes. Switch channels mid-story and never lose your place. Reading and listening aren't either-or — they're one seamless experience that bends to YOUR day. FROM HEADLINE TO HEADPHONES The world moves fast, and so do we. Breaking stories are fetched, summarized, and ready in your queue — clean, concise, and stripped of the fluff. You get the signal, never the noise. BUILT AROUND WHAT YOU LOVE Politics, tech, business, sports, science, culture, world affairs — follow the topics that move you and skip the ones that don't. The more you listen, the smarter your feed gets. DripCast learns your taste and keeps the stories you crave flowing. TRENDING, RIGHT NOW See what the world can't stop talking about. Our Trending feed surfaces the conversations breaking out across the globe in real time, so you're never the last to know — you're the first. SPECIAL DRIPS FOR THE BIG MOMENTS Major event unfolding? A World Cup, an election, a story the whole planet is watching? DripCast serves up dedicated Special Drips that keep you locked in from kickoff to final whistle, headline to history. A LITTLE SOMETHING EXTRA Start your day with more than the headlines. Get your horoscope, a "This Day in History" moment, your local weather, and other daily delights woven right into your Drip. It's the full morning ritual — informative, personal, and genuinely yours. WHY YOU'LL BE HOOKED • Fresh news delivered every day, automatically • Natural, podcast-quality narration — not robotic text-to-speech • A feed that adapts to YOU, not the other way around • Real-time trending stories from around the world • Special coverage for the events that matter most • Horoscopes, history, weather, and more in one place • Read or listen — switch between the two anytime • Pick up right where you left off, on either channel • Clean, beautiful, distraction-free design • Queue up stories and play them back-to-back MADE FOR THE WAY YOU LIVE Perfect for the commute, the treadmill, the kitchen, the carpool line — every spare moment your mind is hungry. Read when you can, listen when you can't. DripCast keeps you informed wherever life takes you. NEWS LOVERS, THIS IS YOUR APP You don't just want to know what's happening — you NEED to. You're the friend who breaks the story at dinner, the one who saw it coming, the person everyone texts to ask "is this real?" DripCast keeps you sharper, faster, and more in-the-know than everyone in the room. The news never stops. Now you never have to either. Download DripCast and turn every spare moment into your daily drip of everything worth knowing. Your world — read or listen. One Drip at a time.

Screenshots

PS Deals4 screens
DripCast4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DripCast at none against PS Deals's 10. DripCast also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). PS Deals's advantage is ratings volume (12K vs 1). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. PS Deals sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.49 per month. DripCast asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

DripCast holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PS Deals has 12K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
PS Deals versus DripCast: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPS DealsDripCast
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (12K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings12K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB52 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperIRONPAWDripCast, LLC

Customer experience

PS Deals

All ratings11,789 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral2.7%
Negative1.8%
Written reviews952 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral6.8%
Negative22.6%

DripCast

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

Bugs and requests

PS Deals

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Platform selection screen not working
  • Inability to restore premium subscription
  • Incorrect or outdated game pricing information

Requested features

5 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Ability to import PlayStation Store wishlist
  • More granular price filtering and sorting
  • Expanded platform support (Switch, Xbox, etc.)
  • Improved notification system for price drops

DripCast

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

PS Deals

Subscriptions7
  • Premium Subscription$2.491 Month
  • Premium Subscription$2.991 Month
  • Premium Subscription$4.991 Month
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  • Premium Subscription3 Days trial$11.993 Months
  • Premium Subscription$11.991 Year
  • Premium Subscription3 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Premium Subscription3 Days trial$29.991 Year
One-time3
  • 12-Month Premium Subscription$14.99
  • Premium$23.99
  • Premium$29.99
None

DripCast

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PS Deals free?
PS Deals is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DripCast free?
DripCast is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PS Deals or DripCast?
DripCast is rated higher. PS Deals averages 4.8 out of 5 from 12K ratings, while DripCast averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do PS Deals or DripCast have ads?
PS Deals shows ads; DripCast does not.

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