Drybaby vs THRD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drybaby
This app is a community platform for individuals choosing an alcohol-free lifestyle. It helps users find local events, connect with like-minded people, and engage in conversations within community channels and direct messages. It's designed for sober, sober-curious, or those reducing alcohol intake to socialize differently.
- Alcohol-free event discovery
- Connect with like-minded individuals
- Local community channels
- Share moments and milestones
- Direct and group messaging
- Location-based discovery
- Virtual meetups
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Created for the growing movement of people breaking up with booze. Drybaby is the first-of-its-kind community focused app for alcohol-free socializing. With Drybaby you can: • Find alcohol-free events and activities hand-picked by our members • Discover people in your area who share your lifestyle • Chat in local community channels • Share moments and milestones in your community feed • Message directly or join group conversations What Makes Drybaby Different: We're a social network for the alcohol-free lifestyle. Whether you're sober, sober-curious, or simply drinking less, connect with like-minded individuals who get it. From coffee meetups to hiking groups, book clubs to brunch spots - this is socializing reimagined. Features: • Location-based discovery to find your local community • Nationwide virtual meetups and connections • Private and group messaging • Event creation and discovery • Safe and welcoming environment Available now in: NYC, LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Orange County, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Dallas, Houston, Austin, Nashville, Chicago, Miami, Boston, Philadelphia & nationwide virtual community. Join thousands who are redefining their social lives. Your community is waiting. Download Drybaby and start connecting today.
THRD
Connect with creatives and entrepreneurs of Caribbean heritage through curated events, sub-communities, and shared living spaces. Discover cultural happenings, business insights, and a network of vetted members. Membership is free for the founding season.
- Curated events calendar
- Sub-communities (Circles)
- Community-hosted stays
- Caribbean culture and business news
- Member directory
- Digital membership card
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THRD is a free membership club for creatives and entrepreneurs with Caribbean roots — the CARICOM diaspora, every member state, at home and abroad. People who've just landed, people who never left, and people building from a city far from it. If you simply love the culture, that counts too. Applying is free, membership is free with no end date, and anyone 18 or over can apply — no invitation needed. If that ever changes, you'll hear from us well before it does. The events calendar, the nation pages and The Region are open to browse without an account at all. WHAT'S INSIDE Experiences — what's on from Kingston to London, Port of Spain to Brooklyn. Most of it is somebody else's — we go looking, and every card says whose it is. Chef's tables, sunset sessions, boat days, link-ups — filter by city, by date, or the kind of night you're after. This week — every event in the next seven days, a day at a time. CARICOM nations — a page for each of the fifteen member states and the five associate members: what's on, the next carnival road, local gems, and the nation's news from The Region when there is some. You're going — every RSVP on one page. Bring up to two guests; add any night to your calendar. The chat — say you're going and, once one more member has too, that night has a chat of its own. Only the members going can read it or post in it: the plans before, the talk after. Notifications come on for the nights you're going to, and you can mute any chat from inside it. The carnival circuit — carnival is a calendar of its own and it moves through the year. See the dates across the islands and the diaspora, the bands and fetes around them, and the members planning to travel. The Region — what's moving across the Caribbean: investment, property, business and culture, filed by nation. Each one written from the source it names, stamped with the date we last looked. Stays — in South Florida, a short list of apartment buildings under Local Gems. You tour and lease with the building itself, never through THRD. The directory — members you can actually reach, a home nation on the profile if you choose one, and a conversation when it's mutual. Your card — a THRD membership card that lives in Apple Wallet. HOW IT WORKS Apply in a few minutes. A person reads it. Most people hear back within a week. There are no passwords to invent or forget — you sign in with a code we email you. A ROOM WORTH PROTECTING Everyone here was vetted, and the room is looked after. Report and Block sit on every profile and every conversation. Reports are reviewed and acted on within 24 hours. Blocking is silent by design — the person you block is never told and can never tell. And you can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app. Free to apply. Membership is free, with no end date. The founding cohort is forming now.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: THRD at 5.0 against Drybaby's 3.9. THRD also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Drybaby's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 2). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
THRD holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Drybaby has 16 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Drybaby's written reviews are positive against 100% of THRD's.
Drybaby ships an update monthly, THRD every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drybaby | THRD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | DRYBABY INC. | NexaThreat LLC |
Customer experience
Drybaby
THRD
In-app purchases
Drybaby
No in-app purchases
THRD
No in-app purchases









