Tea Talk NY vs Third Wave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tea Talk NY
Order your favorite food and drinks ahead of time to skip the line. Track your order in real-time and receive notifications when it's ready. Manage your account, view your order history, and check your rewards balance.
- Order ahead for quick pickup
- View menu details and dish status
- Track orders in real-time
- Receive order readiness notifications
- Manage account and rewards balance
- View order history
- Share moments via gallery
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Order Ahead Order ahead and get your food without the wait! Menu Details Check the status of all dishes and place your order. My Account Check your Reward Balance, Order History and more. My Orders Track your Orders and get real-time notifications your order is ready! Gallery Snap and Share your Tea Talk NY Moments with others.
Third Wave
Discover high-quality coffee shops focused on serious brewing and knowledgeable staff. Find nearby cafes with real-time opening hours, seating information, and user ratings specific to each location. Contribute your own reviews and suggestions to maintain a curated list of exceptional coffee experiences.
- Discover quality coffee shops
- Real-time opening hours
- Detailed shop information
- Location-specific ratings
- User reviews and suggestions
- Map view of coffee spots
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Third Wave is a guide to coffee shops worth going out of your way for. Not every cafe. Not a directory. Every shop here has been checked against one standard: coffee taken seriously — a real pour-over or manual brew, roasters who care where the beans came from, and people behind the bar who know what they're doing. FIND SOMEWHERE NOW Open the app and it answers the question you actually have: where can I get good coffee, near me, right now. Shops are sorted by distance and filtered to what's open, using real opening hours for each individual storefront — so one branch can be open while another across town has already shut. KNOW BEFORE YOU GO Every shop lists what's worth knowing: how much seating there is, whether there's outdoor space, food, and whether they'd rather you didn't bring a laptop. ON THE MAP See every storefront at once, or tap a single one for directions. The map shows only coffee — no clutter of other businesses. JUDGED BY THE ROOM, NOT THE NAME Ratings belong to an address, not a brand. A shop that's wonderful on one corner and ordinary on another is scored that way, and a branch nobody has rated yet says so rather than borrowing its siblings' reputation. RATE, COMMENT, CONTRIBUTE Rate the shops you visit and leave a note for other people. Found somewhere that belongs here? Suggest it — type the name and the address fills itself in. Every suggestion is reviewed before it appears, which is what keeps the standard. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED The app works straight away. Sign in with Apple only if you want your ratings to survive a reinstall. YOUR LOCATION STAYS ON YOUR PHONE Distances and the map are worked out on your device. Your location is never sent to us. There's no analytics, no advertising, and no tracking. Starting in New York and growing worldwide!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Third Wave at every 3 days against Tea Talk NY's every 3 weeks. Tea Talk NY's advantage is ratings volume (28 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tea Talk NY against 5.0 for Third Wave. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tea Talk NY has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Tea Talk NY ships an update every 3 weeks, Third Wave every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tea Talk NY | Third Wave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | PEBLLA, INC | GudBud Enterprises LLC |
In-app purchases
Tea Talk NY
No in-app purchases
Third Wave
No in-app purchases
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