Salt & Straw vs Tastier
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Salt & Straw
Earn points on every purchase to unlock rewards like free cones and discounts. Order ahead for convenient pickup and enjoy special birthday offers. Reorder favorites with a single tap and share your feedback.
- Earn loyalty points on purchases
- Redeem points for free cones and scoops
- Order ahead for pickup
- Birthday discounts on ice cream cakes
- One-tap reordering of favorites
- Share feedback on your experience
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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.
Tastier
Document your culinary experiences by photographing and rating dishes. Discover new restaurants and dishes through your friends' recommendations and build personalized food rankings.
- Capture and rate dishes
- Build personal food rankings
- Discover restaurants through friends
- Save dishes and restaurants to try
- Control privacy and friendships
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Your food life, ranked. Tastier is a social food app for remembering great meals, ranking your favorite dishes, and discovering restaurants through friends. CAPTURE YOUR MEALS Take photos, rate dishes, and keep your favorite food memories in one place. RANK YOUR FAVORITES Build personal food rankings and quickly find the dishes and restaurants worth coming back to. DISCOVER WITH FRIENDS See what your friends are eating, explore their restaurant recommendations, and share your own discoveries. SAVE WHAT TO TRY NEXT Bookmark dishes and organize restaurants into shared lists for your next meal out. CONTROL YOUR EXPERIENCE Choose who can see your posts, manage friendships, and control optional analytics in Settings. Tastier currently requires an invite code to create an account. Sign in with Apple or Google to get started.
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Verdict
Salt & Straw and Tastier both sit at 4.9 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Tastier's written reviews are positive against 50% of Salt & Straw's. Tastier also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). Salt & Straw's advantage is ratings volume (475 vs 4). 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 Salt & Straw against 5.0 for Tastier. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Salt & Straw has 475 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Salt & Straw's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tastier's.
Salt & Straw ships an update fortnightly, Tastier every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Salt & Straw | Tastier |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (475 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 475 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Salt & Straw, LLC | Brosh Investment Group LLC |
Customer experience
Salt & Straw
Tastier
In-app purchases
Salt & Straw
No in-app purchases
Tastier
No in-app purchases








