Comparison

Th3rdwave vs Intryst

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

Head to head
About

Th3rdwave

Discover and find coffee shops with this comprehensive directory and community app. Track visited places, save favorites, and manage loyalty cards for free coffee. Explore new brews with a premium monthly subscription service.

Highlights
  • Discover new and hidden neighborhood cafés
  • Search over 5,000 cafés globally
  • Advanced search filters for cafés
  • Track visited places and save favorites
  • Manage loyalty cards and earn free coffee
  • Curated monthly coffee subscription service
Features
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Whether you’re on-the-go or at home, Th3rdwave is your companion and guide for great coffee. With over 100,000 users, Th3rdwave is the largest coffee app in Canada helping people discover, find and enjoy coffee. DISCOVER NEW CAFÉS Explore new, trendy and hidden neighborhood cafés in your city using our map. FIND THE RIGHT CAFÉS Search over 5,000 cafés across Canada and major cities around the world using our advanced filters — like outstanding filter brewing, multi-roaster offering, laptop-friendly, and more. YOUR COFFEE BOOK Track the places you’ve visited, save your favorites and create personalized lists. COLLECT YOUR LOYALTY CARDS Keep your loyalty cards and rewards all in-one-place. Collect stamps every time you order coffee and earn free coffee. Our loyalty platform is offered for free to all independent cafés. Whether visiting a coffee shop or buying from a local roaster, there’s something out there for every coffee lover. Let Th3rdwave help you find the right coffee for your mood. The app provides you free access to our coffee directory. Th3rdwave is built on the idea that coffee should be accessible, and through accessibility new opportunities can emerge for coffee lovers and artisans. BREW NEW COFFEES EVERY MONTH [PREMIUM SERVICE] Members enjoy a variety of new coffees every month. Coffee are curated based on their taste profile. Coffees are sourced from small local roasters. Delivered freshly-roasted every month. Our subscription service is currently only available in Canada.

About

Intryst

Discover unique local businesses and activities in your city. Get personalized suggestions for restaurants and nearby events based on your travel distance and budget. Perfect for date nights, exploring new places, or finding hidden gems.

Highlights
  • Restaurant and activity generator
  • Highlights local small businesses
  • Personalized suggestions
  • Distance and price range filters
  • Discover local events and venues
  • Explore your city
Features
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At its core, Intryst is a restaurant and activity generator. We do this by pushing local small businesses into the forefront and highlighting the unique places in each city we support. We believe that each city is intrysting and those differences should be celebrated and highlighted. No matter if you’ve lived in a city your whole life, or you’re just passing through, it’s our mission to find and present these distinctive differences to our users and help them decide what to do in their remarkable locality. Tell Intryst how far you’re willing to travel and what your price range is, and it suggests a pairing of a restaurant and nearby activity. Allow us to be your local guide to help you discover local events and venues helping you to explore your city like never before! Are your date nights running stale? Are you trying to find a new favorite local spot? Are you visiting a new city, or planning to, and need help planning your adventure? Are these rhetorical questions becoming too much to handle? Well, we have an app for you! Intryst offers a near-infinite list of suggestions (infinite may vary with the size of your city). Enjoy inexpensive coffee shop evenings, exciting escape room escapades, or even bougie-fancy nights on the town. Let us help you shake things up and discover something intrysting!

Screenshots

Th3rdwave4 screens
Intryst3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Intryst at 5.0 against Th3rdwave's 4.6. Intryst also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Th3rdwave's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Intryst holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Th3rdwave's written reviews are positive against 100% of Intryst's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Th3rdwave ships an update every 3 weeks, Intryst every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Th3rdwave versus Intryst: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTh3rdwaveIntryst
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (30 ratings)5.0 (19 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings30 — better19
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size131 MB19 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperReseau Social Walkin Inc.Intryst LLC

Customer experience

Th3rdwave

All ratings30 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive77.6%
Neutral6.9%
Negative15.5%

Intryst

All ratings19 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Th3rdwave

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Cannot log back in after logout
  • No coffee shops available in user's city
  • Map function not working
  • Order button location inconsistent
  • Location services inaccurate
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  • Loading screen issues
  • Technical problems and bugs
  • Slow chat communication

Requested features

8 requests
  • Color-coded map for visited places
  • Search for boroughs
  • Filter for '3rd wave' cafes
  • Add rating on map
  • Consistent location for 'Order' button
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  • Show reason for unavailable ordering
  • Edit posts after publishing
  • More intuitive loyalty card interaction

Intryst

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Th3rdwave

No in-app purchases

None

Intryst

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Th3rdwave free?
Th3rdwave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Intryst free?
Intryst is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Th3rdwave or Intryst?
Intryst is rated higher. Th3rdwave averages 4.6 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Intryst averages 5.0 from 19 ratings.
Do Th3rdwave or Intryst have ads?
Neither Th3rdwave nor Intryst shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Th3rdwave or Intryst?
Th3rdwave ships an update every 3 weeks, and Intryst every 5 months. Most recently, Th3rdwave was updated on November 6, 2026 and Intryst on November 3, 2026.

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