Mardel vs ArkansasYarnCo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mardel
This app allows users to browse Christian and educational products, view weekly ads, find store locations, and access coupons. It offers a wide selection of Bibles, books, gifts, and supplies to support spiritual and intellectual needs.
- Browse Christian and educational products
- View weekly ads
- Locate nearby stores
- Access coupons
- Shop Bibles, books, and gifts
- Discover homeschool curriculum
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Christian & Education products are now available at your fingertips every time you open the Mardel App! Download the Mardel App to browse the weekly ad, locate stores near you, grab the current coupon available in-store or online and more. Mardel Christian & Education is a faith-based company dedicated to renewing minds and transforming lives through the products we sell and the ministries we support. To this end, we provide a large selection of Bibles, books, movies, gifts, music, kid products, apparel, church and educational supplies, and homeschool curriculum. We offer quality products at great prices on Mardel.com and across our 35 stores located in the central region of the United States. Our products share truth, teach knowledge, offer encouragement, inspire worship, and bring joy--fulfilling the vision of Mardel to make a difference and give hope. We are a resource center equipping the whole person--specializing in the provision of all your spiritual and intellectual needs.
ArkansasYarnCo
Shop a curated selection of luxury, hand-dyed yarns and specialty gifts directly from a family-owned Arkansas business. Receive exclusive app-only discounts and restock notifications. Visit the brick-and-mortar store for classes and community.
- Shop luxury hand-dyed yarn
- Exclusive app shopper discounts
- Restock notifications
- Browse specialty gift items
- In-store classes and events
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Arkansas Yarn Co is a full-service, family owned, yarn destination located in the beautiful Historic District of downtown Malvern, Arkansas. We specialize in Luxury Yarn that is hand-dyed in our State-of-the-art, in-house dying studio. Our retail space features many varieties and colors of yarn and specialty gift items. We first launched our store online in 2017 and opened our flagship brick and mortar store in Malvern in 2019, after rapid growth of the online store. Now we are expanding even further with our first ever ArkansasYarnCo App! With this app, you can shop directly from our shop, recieve notifications when items come back in stock, and recieve discout codes exclusive only to our app shoppers! We would also love to have you visit us in person! Come sit and knit or crochet, participate in a class, or just take a selfie to post to Social Media! We're different here, come see how!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ArkansasYarnCo at 100% against Mardel's 0%. ArkansasYarnCo also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.9) and ratings volume (296 vs 19). Mardel's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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.
ArkansasYarnCo holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ArkansasYarnCo has 296 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Mardel's written reviews are positive against 100% of ArkansasYarnCo's.
Mardel ships an update every 5 months, ArkansasYarnCo every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mardel | ArkansasYarnCo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (19 ratings) | 5.0 (296 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 296 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mardel, Inc. | ArkansasYarnCo |
Customer experience
Mardel
ArkansasYarnCo
In-app purchases
Mardel
No in-app purchases
ArkansasYarnCo
No in-app purchases
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