Comparison

Salt & Straw vs Coffeedex

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Salt & Straw

This app enhances your ice cream experience by rewarding loyalty. Earn points for every dollar spent to redeem for free cones, scoops, and discounts. You can also order ahead for quick pickup and reorder favorites with ease.

Highlights
  • Earn points on purchases
  • Redeem for free cones and scoops
  • Order ahead for pickup
  • Birthday discounts
  • One-tap reordering
  • Share feedback
Features
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Welcome to Salt & Straw Loyalty Craft Made. Curiously Delicious Ice Cream. Our loyalty program is here to make your ice cream runs even more magical. Earn 1 point for every $1 you spend and unlock delicious rewards—like free waffle cones, scoops, birthday cake discounts, and surprise offers you won’t want to miss. Here’s what you get with the app: Tasty Rewards – Turn every purchase into points and cash them in for cones, scoops, and more. Order Ahead – Order your scoops and pay right in the app. Pickup your prepaid order directly from the pint freezer. Celebrate You – Get $10 off any ice cream cake on your birthday. One-Tap Reordering – Got a favorite? Reorder it in seconds. Tell Us Everything – Share your thoughts with a tap and help us get better with every scoop. Terms & conditions apply. We’re Salt & Straw. We make ice cream with big heart, using ingredients that tell a story. There’s something new every month, so keep your spoon ready.

About

Coffeedex

Log and collect every drink you try, from coffee to tea. Rate flavor, aroma, and texture, and discover patterns in your taste preferences over time. Visualize your drink journey with maps and share your favorite finds as collectible cards.

Highlights
  • Collectible drink entries
  • Rate flavor, aroma, texture, value
  • Tasting notes and tags
  • Automatic sticker generation from photos
  • Taste pattern analysis and statistics
  • Bean origin and café mapping
  • Shareable drink trading cards
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Your coffee, collected. Coffeedex turns every drink into a collectible. Snap a photo, score it, and watch your personal dex grow — one oat latte at a time. Every drink, remembered. Rate flavor, aroma, texture, and value. Add tasting notes and tags. Coffeedex pulls a sticker from your photo automatically — your collection looks stunning without trying. Know your taste. Stats surface patterns you'd never notice — your comfort picks vs. your adventurous ones, whether you rate higher on weekends, if you're getting pickier over time. The more you log, the more it reveals. See where it all came from. Bean origins on a world map. Cafés pinned where you found them. Your coffee world, visualized. Share the good ones. One tap generates a trading card — your score, your sticker, your find. Drop it in Stories or send it to someone who'd get it. Quick to log. Smart autocomplete, location-aware suggestions, and defaults that learn your habits. The app gets out of the way so the drink doesn't.

Screenshots

Salt & Straw4 screens
Coffeedex2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Salt & Straw at 460 against Coffeedex's 1. On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Salt & Straw against 5.0 for Coffeedex. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Salt & Straw has 460 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Salt & Straw ships an update fortnightly, Coffeedex every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Salt & Straw versus Coffeedex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSalt & StrawCoffeedex
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (460 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings460 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSalt & Straw, LLCKirsey Fam

In-app purchases

None

Salt & Straw

No in-app purchases

None

Coffeedex

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Salt & Straw free?
Salt & Straw is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Coffeedex free?
Coffeedex is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Salt & Straw or Coffeedex?
Coffeedex is rated higher. Salt & Straw averages 4.9 out of 5 from 460 ratings, while Coffeedex averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Salt & Straw or Coffeedex have ads?
Neither Salt & Straw nor Coffeedex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Salt & Straw or Coffeedex?
Salt & Straw ships an update fortnightly, and Coffeedex every 3 weeks. Most recently, Salt & Straw was updated on October 25, 2026 and Coffeedex on October 9, 2026.

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