Volcom vs NooWave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Volcom
Explore a wide range of clothing and accessories inspired by skateboarding, surfing, and snowboarding culture. Discover products for men, women, and kids across various categories, including outdoor gear and fashion.
- Skateboarding, surfing, snowboarding inspired apparel
- Clothing for men, women, and kids
- Outdoor, snow, swim, skate, denim
- Accessories and fashion items
- Supports music and arts initiatives
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Inspired by creative spirit, Volcom was founded as a clothing company rooted in skateboarding, surfing, and snowboarding. Building upon the foundation of sport culture, Volcom also supports initiatives in music and the arts and lives by the mantra ‘True To This’ as a rallying cry for persistent rebels and creatives that follow their passions. Volcom creates meaningful products for men, women and kids across a variety of categories including outdoor, snow, swim, skate, denim, accessories, fashion and more.
NooWave
Shop for coffee with exclusive discounts and early access to new collections. Enjoy easy browsing, quick checkout, and app-user-only offers. Everything you need for your coffee fix, conveniently in one place.
- Exclusive discounts
- Early access to launches
- App-user-only offers
- Easy browsing of catalog
- Secure and fast checkout
- First-to-know notifications
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Download the NooWave Coffee app to access exclusive discounts, early access to collection launches. Everything you love, right at your fingertips. EASY BROWSING Shop the freshest new arrivals across our entire catalog. EXCLUSIVE ACCESS Be first to know about exclusive offers and launches through first-to-know notifications and app-user-only early access. SECURE CHECKOUT IN A FLASH Tap, swipe, shop and secure your new products in an instant with our super easy checkout.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: NooWave at every 2 days against Volcom's monthly. NooWave also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 85%) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). Volcom's advantage is ratings volume (1.6K vs 7). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Volcom against 5.0 for NooWave. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Volcom has 1.6K ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Volcom's written reviews are positive against 100% of NooWave's.
Volcom ships an update monthly, NooWave every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and June 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Volcom | NooWave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.6K ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | VOLCOM LLC | NooWave LLC |
Customer experience
Volcom
NooWave
Bugs and requests
Volcom
Reported bugs
1 issue- Payment issues with app not accepting certain cards
Requested features
2 requests- Allow color/style selection from product pages
- Improve rewards program functionality on app
NooWave
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Volcom
No in-app purchases
NooWave
No in-app purchases
