Stranger Things to Do Seattle vs Ridwell
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stranger Things to Do Seattle
Discover curated local events like live music, theater, and food. Get event details, buy tickets, and save favorites. Never have a boring weekend again with suggestions for last-minute activities.
- Curated local event calendar
- Event details and reviews
- Ticket purchasing
- Save favorite events
- Last-minute suggestions
- Event sharing
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The easiest way to decide what to do tonight or this weekend. Pick from events curated by local experts—including live music, theater, concerts, art, movies, food, and drink—or search our calendar. Get tickets, too! With Stranger Things To Do, you can: • Get easy access to Seattle’s most comprehensive events calendar, curated and edited daily by local experts who live, work, and go out in Seattle (we really know what we’re talking about). • Browse upcoming events individually or see filtered lists of daily suggestions. • See recommendations and read reviews from trusted arts critics at The Stranger, Seattle’s Pulitzer Prize–winning newspaper. • Discover quirky, offbeat, and unusual events. • Never have a boring weekend again, with suggestions for last-minute things to do for weekends and holidays. • View details about events all in one place, including price, time, maps, and directions, plus real descriptions written by Stranger Things To Do editors. • Buy tickets for the hottest upcoming events before they sell out. • Save favorite events in the app and get reminders, or save events to your phone calendar. • Easily share events with e-mail, messages, Facebook, Twitter, and more, because events are better with friends. • Search every event on our extensive online calendar to find exactly what you’re looking for. Stranger Things To Do: Going out made easy.
Ridwell
Easily dispose of hard-to-recycle items with convenient doorstep pickups. Schedule collections, track your impact, and feel good knowing your items are being reused or recycled by trusted partners.
- Schedule doorstep pickups
- Collect hard-to-recycle items
- Receive real-time notifications
- Track community impact
- Transparent item destinations
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Get rid of your stuff the right way with Ridwell. Seamlessly schedule your upcoming pickups, receive real-time notifications, and see the impact you’re making with the Ridwell community! Collect hard-to-recycle items in your Ridwell bags. We give you bags to store your plastic film, threads, and other hard-to-recycle things that might otherwise go to waste. Easy pickups from your front door. We come to your front door to pick up your stuff every two weeks. Just let us know when you have stuff to pick up! Feel great about where your stuff goes. You’ll always know where your stuff is going to be reused or recycled with one of our partners. Together, Ridwell members save tons from the landfill every year to support our community, keep our oceans clean, and build a brighter future. If you're in need of any support, please contact us at app@ridwell.com.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Ridwell at 4.9 against Stranger Things to Do Seattle's 2.2. Ridwell also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 47%) and ratings volume (9K vs 14). Stranger Things to Do Seattle's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Ridwell holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ridwell has 9K ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of Stranger Things to Do Seattle's written reviews are positive against 73% of Ridwell's.
Stranger Things to Do Seattle ships an update every 5 months, Ridwell every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stranger Things to Do Seattle | Ridwell |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (14 ratings) | 4.9 (9K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.4% of reviews | 73.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 9K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Noisy Creek, Inc. | Ridwell, Inc. |
Customer experience
Stranger Things to Do Seattle
Ridwell
Bugs and requests
Stranger Things to Do Seattle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ridwell
Reported bugs
2 issues- Incorrect pickup status notifications
- Drivers unable to access buildings
Requested features
3 requests- Advance scheduling for pickups
- More recycling categories
- Proactive notifications for missed pickups
In-app purchases
Stranger Things to Do Seattle
No in-app purchases
Ridwell
No in-app purchases
Questions
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