Salt & Straw vs Coffeedex
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Earn points on purchases
- Redeem for free cones and scoops
- Order ahead for pickup
- Birthday discounts
- One-tap reordering
- Share feedback
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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.
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.
- 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.
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Verdict
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
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 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.
Salt & Straw ships an update fortnightly, Coffeedex every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Salt & Straw | Coffeedex |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (460 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 460 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Salt & Straw, LLC | Kirsey Fam |
In-app purchases
Salt & Straw
No in-app purchases
Coffeedex
No in-app purchases









