Macey's vs Rowe Beef
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Macey's
Organize your grocery trips with a smart shopping list, access weekly deals, find store locations, and discover recipes. Easily add ingredients from recipes to your list and manage quantities for a convenient shopping experience.
- Customizable shopping lists
- Weekly ad offers integration
- Store locator
- Recipe database with ingredient addition
- Quantity editing
- Email shopping list contents
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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.
Rowe Beef
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Our mobile app lets you search our complete product catalog, manage and update your ordering guide, and buy what you need at the moment you need it. It’s part of our commitment to giving you an ordering experience you’ll love. Select benefits include: - No-headache ordering: access our full catalog & re-order easily - Keep everything together: delivery days, cutoff times, and order updates, all in one - place - Get in touch anytime: communicate directly with your Rowe Beef rep in the app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Rowe Beef at none against Macey's's shown. Rowe Beef also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Macey's's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 7 months). On price 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.
Macey's ships an update fortnightly, Rowe Beef every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and May 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Macey's | Rowe Beef |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (81 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 13.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 299 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Associated Food Stores, Inc. | Pomegranate Technologies, Inc. |
Bugs and requests
Macey's
Reported bugs
36 issues- Request times out when creating account
- Order canceled randomly after checkout
- Checkout button glitches and returns to home page
- Cart deleted after multiple checkout attempts
- Cannot find Pharmacy access
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- Cannot accept new terms on iPhone
- App does not save registration information
- App redirects to a clunky website for delivery orders
- App is unresponsive and cannot be interacted with
- Cannot scroll down to agree to terms when creating an account
- App is larger than the display window, preventing scrolling to accept terms
- App freezes at 'updating account' screen
- Online shopping feature never works
- App does not allow selecting a location for online shopping
- After creating an account, clicking on anything does nothing
- App does not allow starting an online order
- App freezes or says 'loading' indefinitely
- Account setup fails, stating email already exists, but password reset says email doesn't exist
- Online order buttons do not work on iPhone
- App freezes and then shuts down
- Digital coupons are not displayed
- Red button ice cream purchase quantity selection does not work
- Unable to enter birthday on iPhone during account creation
- App won't post the weekly ad
- Cannot view the weekly ad due to server connection error
- Cannot add certain sale items to the shopping list
- Error message 'Log in to add to shopping list' appears while logged in
- Error message 'Can't connect to server' when trying to log in
- App won't let user log in after deleting and re-downloading
- App is broken, stating account exists for creation but not for password reset
- Original app install did not allow login
- Registration fails
- App looks and acts half finished
- Links to webpages instead of in-app functionality
- Coupons section directs user to download another app
- Shopping list concept is poorly executed
Requested features
33 requests- Pharmacy access in the app
- Search function for specials
- Barcode scanner for shopping list
- List of common items for shopping list
- In-app browser for linked pages
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- Improve coupon usability
- Fix cart deletion bug
- Fix checkout page glitch
- Fix order cancellation bug
- Fix account creation timeout
- Fix inability to accept terms
- Fix registration info saving
- Update clunky website experience
- Simplify discount process
- Make app interactable
- Fix account creation scrolling issue
- Fix app larger than display window
- Fix account updating freeze
- Fix inability to select store for online order
- Fix login issues with email/password reset
- Fix weekly ad loading issues
- Fix sale item adding to list
- Fix server connection errors
- Fix online order buttons on iPhone
- Fix digital coupon display
- Fix red button ice cream purchase issue
- Allow entering birthday on iPhone
- Improve app's overall user-friendliness
- Make app feel modern and not from 2002
- Allow online shopping for delivery
- Integrate pharmacy and perks account into the app
- Provide a better coupon experience without requiring another app
- Improve shopping list functionality
Rowe Beef
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Macey's
No in-app purchases
Rowe Beef
No in-app purchases
