Zero Waste Cambridge vs Somerville Waste Wizard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zero Waste Cambridge
Access your garbage and recycling schedules for the City of Cambridge. Receive timely collection notifications directly through the app, ensuring you never miss a pickup.
- Garbage and recycling schedules
- Collection reminders
- City of Cambridge specific
- View schedules
- Receive notifications
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Garbage and recycling schedules and reminders for City of Cambridge. View your garbage and recycling schedule and receive collection notifications all from within this app.
Somerville Waste Wizard
Find trash, recycling, and street sweeping schedules for Somerville, MA. Get service reminders and learn how to properly dispose of or recycle specialty items.
- Waste collection schedules
- Recycling guidelines
- Street sweeping alerts
- Service reminders
- Special item disposal
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Look up trash, recycling, and street sweeping schedules for the City of Somerville, MA. Receive service reminders and notifications. Learn how to recycle or dispose of specialty items.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Zero Waste Cambridge at every 5 months against Somerville Waste Wizard's every 13 months. Somerville Waste Wizard's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 90%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Zero Waste Cambridge against 4.9 for Somerville Waste Wizard. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 132 and 73 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Zero Waste Cambridge's written reviews are positive against 100% of Somerville Waste Wizard's.
Zero Waste Cambridge ships an update every 5 months, Somerville Waste Wizard every 13 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Zero Waste Cambridge | Somerville Waste Wizard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (132 ratings) | 4.9 (73 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 132 — better | 73 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | City of Cambridge, MA | City of Somerville |
Customer experience
Zero Waste Cambridge
Somerville Waste Wizard
In-app purchases
Zero Waste Cambridge
No in-app purchases
Somerville Waste Wizard
No in-app purchases
