Lakes Coffee vs SoftServer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lakes Coffee
Easily order your favorite coffee and pay through the app. Track your rewards and earn stars with every purchase. Enjoy a seamless ordering experience for your daily caffeine fix.
- Order coffee
- In-app payment
- Earn stars
- Loyalty program
- Online ordering
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Order, Pay, and Earn Stars.
SoftServer
This app allows soft serve enthusiasts to rate, discuss, and compare their favorite flavors with friends. It features a social feed, weekly recaps, and notifications for new flavor drops. Track personal stats and connect with other fans across the community.
- Rate weekly flavors and toppings
- View upcoming and past flavors with allergen flags
- Receive new flavor drop notifications
- Track personal stats and leaderboards
- Compare ratings with friends and community
- Integrate flavor updates into calendar
- Comment, react, and follow ratings
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SoftServer for iOS is here! SoftServer is a free social platform for soft serve fans who want to rate, discuss, and compare their favorite flavors with friends. An ongoing social feed and dynamic weekly recaps showcase how the community scored each flavor, connecting fans across Philly to their greatest soft serve dreams. Built for soft serve fans, by soft serve fans. Features: - Rate each week's individual soft serve flavors and toppings, plus an overall weekly score - including for previous weeks in the season - See all upcoming and past flavors of the season, with allergen flags (V/GF) and dates of availability - Get reminder notifications each week when new flavors drop - Personal stats and flavor leaderboard with rating counts, averages, and top picks - Weekly recap that compares your ratings to friends and the wider community - Calendar file with automatically integrated flavor updates - Find and add friends, with real-time notifications when they rate - Invite friends with a personal invite code - Comment, react, and follow ratings in a dynamic social feed - Switch between a friends-only feed and the full community feed - Share flavor ratings to other social platforms - Public or private profile, custom handle, name, and emoji avatar - Sign in with Google, Apple, or email Based in Philadelphia. Launched spring 2026 in partnership with Small Oven Pastry Shop, which offers a weekly rotation of unique soft serve flavors from April through December. Learn more at softserverapp.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: SoftServer at every 2 weeks against Lakes Coffee's every 4 months. Lakes Coffee's advantage is ratings volume (62 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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 — 5.0 for Lakes Coffee against 5.0 for SoftServer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lakes Coffee has 62 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Lakes Coffee ships an update every 4 months, SoftServer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lakes Coffee | SoftServer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (62 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lakes Coffee LLC | Harsh Bhargava |
Customer experience
Lakes Coffee
SoftServer
In-app purchases
Lakes Coffee
No in-app purchases
SoftServer
No in-app purchases
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