Meala vs RateThatDrink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Meala
Connect with friends and share your culinary creations. Discover and exchange recipes with a vibrant community. Organize your favorite dishes and cooking inspiration.
- Share meals and recipes
- Connect with friends
- Recipe discovery
- Organize favorite dishes
- Community interaction
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Share meals and recipes with friends
RateThatDrink
Discover and share beverage recommendations from a community of users and businesses. Showcase your drink creations or find new favorites at local establishments. Earn rewards by reviewing drinks and engaging with the platform.
- Create personal or business accounts
- Discover recommended drinks
- Share bartending skills
- Earn monthly rewards
- Find local business deals
- Review daily beverages
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RateThatDrink is the first social interactive platform that rewards you for having a nice refreshing beverage. With this app, you can show off your bartending skills by creating a personal account or highlight your brand with a business account. Whenever you struggle on what type of beverage to choose from at a restaurant, coffee shop, bar, brewery or winery, you should login to see what the rest of the RateThatDrink bartenders recommend. On top of this app being a convenient way to assist you on tasteful drinks, gain likes on the app to win monthly rewards through giveaways, just by enjoying and reviewing your day-to-day beverages. So many unique and delicious drinks menus go unrecognized to local communities, this app serves to spread those drinks so everybody can enjoy these outstanding beverages. Exclusively, our app aims to partner with small and growing businesses, so users can get special deals and discounts when visiting those selected partners.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Meala at 100% against RateThatDrink's 50%. Meala also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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.
Meala holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Meala's written reviews are positive against 50% of RateThatDrink's.
Meala ships an update every 5 weeks, RateThatDrink every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Meala | RateThatDrink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 4.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Free Health Entertainment LLC | R&B Web Technology LLC |
Customer experience
Meala
RateThatDrink
In-app purchases
Meala
No in-app purchases
RateThatDrink
No in-app purchases
