Giggster vs Cafe Pals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Giggster
This platform connects creatives needing unique venues with property owners seeking to earn income. Easily discover, book, and manage thousands of diverse locations through a streamlined app experience. Additional services like permit coordination and concierge support are available.
- Discover unique venues
- Book locations
- Chat with owners
- Secure payments
- Permit coordination
- Concierge support
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A better way to book locations. Giggster is a marketplace platform that connects creatives looking for locations to interested property owners ready to earn extra income. Discover and book thousands of unique venues at all price points, styles and types. We make it simple to search, chat, and pay through the app, hassle-free. Additional Services: Permit Coordination Free Concierge Support Location Agreements
Cafe Pals
Record your coffee experiences, from favorite cafes and drinks to your own home brewing adventures. Create a personal coffee diary, track your progress, and revisit cherished coffee memories.
- Personalized coffee collection
- Record cafe details and locations
- Home brewing process notes
- Coffee making diary with photos
- Daily coffee chronicle
- Map search for cafes
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For coffee fans, every cup of coffee carries a unique flavor and memories, and every coffee shop has a different atmosphere and story. This carefully crafted “Coffee Assistant” App will satisfy the needs of coffee lovers in all aspects, and become a powerful partner for everyone to explore the coffee world. The first thing you see when you step into the App is the personalized coffee collection area. Whether it's a rich and mellow espresso, a hand-brewed single-bean coffee that exudes fascinating fruit acidity, a sweet and silky latte, or a refreshingly crisp Americano, whatever touches your taste buds can be easily recorded here. Detailed records of the coffee's brand, origin, flavor characteristics, and even the special scene of the first encounter with it. At the same time, you can also record those treasure coffee shops hidden in the corners and alleys, with cozy environment and professional baristas. The name of the store, the address, the special decoration inside the store, as well as the signature coffee recommended by the staff, all leave an imprint, so that it is convenient to look back at any time in the future, and search for familiar flavors according to the map. There is more to coffee than just tasting it, and making it yourself is a fun and challenging journey of discovery, and App recognizes this and has created a section dedicated to homemade coffee for enthusiasts. From choosing the coarseness and fineness of the ground coffee beans to precisely controlling the water temperature and the ratio of water to powder; from the use of different brewing instruments such as French press, siphon and hand brewer to the pursuit of milk froth finesse, detailed notes can be recorded for each step of the process. You can also upload photos of your coffee making process, with text describing your thoughts and feelings, to create your own coffee making diary. With the accumulation of experience, you can read through the past records and witness the growth of your coffee-making skills, making each homemade coffee closer to perfection. A cup of coffee a day is like a ritual in life, and the app helps turn these daily moments into precious memories. With a single click, you can record the details of the coffee you drank that day, the snacks you paired with it, as well as the mood and scene when you drank it. As time passes, it will form an exclusive coffee daily chronicle. When you open it in your spare time, the moments when you were saved by a cup of coffee in the morning, or when you shared a cup of coffee with your friends in the afternoon, all appear like a movie. The past coffee aroma seems to linger in the tip of the nose again, not only the memory of taste buds revisited, but also a beautiful retrospective of the slice of life, so that the coffee has become a warm thread linking the years. With “Coffee Assistant” App, coffee is no longer just a drink, but also an artist of life and a collector of memories. It allows every coffee fan to deeply immerse themselves in the fascinating sea of coffee culture in the cycle of tasting, making and reminiscing, and start a never-ending journey of coffee. Come and embrace this exclusive coffee benefit!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Giggster at 97% against Cafe Pals's 19%. Giggster also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Cafe Pals's advantage is iOS requirement (14.5 vs 16). On price, ads 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. Cafe Pals sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Giggster asks for nothing beyond the download.
Giggster holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Giggster has 2.1K ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Giggster's written reviews are positive against 19% of Cafe Pals's.
| Parameter | Giggster | Cafe Pals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (2.1K ratings) — better | 2.3 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 97.1% of reviews — better | 18.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.1K — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16 | 14.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Giggster, Inc | Atan YAMAK |
Customer experience
Giggster
Cafe Pals
Bugs and requests
Giggster
Reported bugs
3 issues- Login screen freezes
- Incompatibility with older devices
- Booking cancellation issues and lack of refunds
Requested features
5 requests- Add a favorites/saved listings feature
- Improve search and filtering capabilities
- Provide better integration with external calendars
- Enhance the app's functionality to match the website
- Offer more transparency around pricing and fees
Cafe Pals
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Giggster
No in-app purchases
Cafe Pals
- One Pack$4.99
- Three Pack$9.99
- Three Pack$19.99









