Macey's vs Thirst Drinks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Macey's
Streamline your grocery shopping with a digital list, weekly ad access, and recipe integration. Easily find stores, manage your purchases, and add ingredients directly to your list for a convenient shopping trip.
- Digital shopping list
- Weekly ad offers
- Store locator
- Recipe database
- Add ingredients to list
- Email shopping list
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The Macey's app has the power to super-charge your shopping experience! Download today to take advantage of a variety of useful features such as: - A handy shopping list to group future purchases together for shopping convenience! Add items from other parts of the application, or add your own custom entries. Easily check off items as you go throughout the store! Includes handy features such as emailing list contents out, or quickly editing quantities on items added to the list. - Access weekly ad offers directly on your phone, and add the offers directly to your shopping list, all with one click! - Use our store locator feature to select a home store or find the nearest Macey's location! - Check out our recipe database on the go and add ingredients directly to your shopping list with the push of a button! Features handy multi-filter search functionality to find just the dish you're craving. We appreciate your interest and feedback as we continued to develop the best possible app for you! Look out for future updates and enhancements as we continue to deliver the best possible shopping experience for our customers.
Thirst Drinks
Track your loyalty rewards, order drinks for delivery or pickup, and get exclusive promotions. Stay updated with the latest offers from your favorite beverage provider.
- Loyalty tracking
- Order delivery
- Store pickup
- Exclusive promotions
- Receive updates
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Use the Thirst app to view and track your loyalty, order delivery or store pickup, receive exclusive promos and updates, and more!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Thirst Drinks at 2.7 against Macey's's 2.1. Thirst Drinks also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Macey's's advantage is ratings volume (79 vs 12). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Thirst Drinks holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Macey's has 79 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 13% of Macey's's written reviews are positive against 20% of Thirst Drinks's.
Macey's ships an update every 2 weeks, Thirst Drinks fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Macey's | Thirst Drinks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (79 ratings) | 2.7 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 13.2% of reviews | 20.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 79 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 288 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Associated Food Stores, Inc. | Olympus Shaving Enterprises LLC |
Customer experience
Macey's
Thirst Drinks
In-app purchases
Macey's
No in-app purchases
Thirst Drinks
No in-app purchases
