Comparison

The Coffee Stand vs That Life

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

Head to head
About

The Coffee Stand

Manage your own coffee shop in a charming town. Prepare drinks, serve customers, and expand your business by unlocking new stands and training baristas. Enjoy a relaxing gameplay experience with customizable music and sound.

Highlights
  • Manage coffee stands
  • Serve customers
  • Unlock new districts and stands
  • Hire and train baristas
  • Upgrade equipment
  • Customize music and sound
Features
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A little coffee stand. A familiar face. A moment to slow down. The Coffee Stand is a relaxed coffee shop management game set in Maplewood. Prepare drinks, serve your neighbors and use your earnings to grow at your own pace. YOUR CORNER OF MAPLEWOOD Explore six districts and unlock 18 coffee stands, each with its own setting and signature drink. The map shows your open stands and how much of each district you have discovered. A TEAM TO GROW WITH Meet 33 customers and choose from eight baristas. Assign your baristas to individual stands and train them as your business grows. Each stand keeps its own equipment and progress. MAKE EVERY CUP COUNT Improve your coffee machine, grinder and storage. Collect your baristas' earnings and decide where to invest next. Hired baristas can build up earnings while you are away, up to your storage limit. SET YOUR OWN MOOD Choose from ten music tracks and adjust music and sound effects separately. Your settings are saved between visits. A daily coffee thought adds a quiet moment to your day. The core game works offline. Optional rewarded ads require an internet connection and can speed up eligible upgrades, training or service. Reminders are optional. Available in English, Turkish, German, Spanish and French.

About

That Life

An East Coast-inspired pixel-art RPG where you build your character and make a name for yourself in a sprawling city. Explore districts, take on jobs, customize your style, and decide whether to join a crew or go solo.

Highlights
  • Pixel-art city exploration
  • Character customization
  • Jobs and reputation system
  • Crew or solo gameplay
  • Vehicle and property ownership
  • In-game phone with apps
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That Life is an East Coast-inspired pixel-art street-life RPG set in fictional Bellmore City and County. Create your character and decide how you will make a name for yourself. Explore five city districts and the County, take on story jobs and repeatable work, build your reputation, customize your style, collect rides, buy property, and join a crew or run solo. MAKE YOUR OWN LIFE • Explore shops, traffic, neighborhoods, homes, businesses, and local characters. • Customize hairstyles, clothing, accessories, and your home. • Follow story objectives or earn through clean work, crafting, property, and other in-game activities. • Use your phone for maps, guides, jobs, collections, records, and city updates. • Continue your local campaign without an account. TAKE A COUNTY BREAK • Play 1–18 holes at Stonegate against a golf opponent, with par-3/4/5 holes, clubs, wind, shot cameras, scorecards, and saved continuation. • Compare completed 9- and 18-hole golf scores by difficulty, birdies, race wins, catches, deliveries, and other solo activity records on optional leaderboards. • Harvest and explore Hollow Run Farm & Trail, then deliver produce back in the city. FACE LIVE RIVALS • Choose Classic Duel or nine new real-time modes: Hot Block, Double Cross, Hot Package, Last Clip, Ride or Die, Block Hustle, Last Delivery, Corner Store Clash, and Blend In. • Compete in crew objectives, courier races, shop competition, and hide-and-seek with equal match equipment and clearly labeled AI practice. • Challenge mutual friends and compare mode wins, with human-only and AI/mixed records kept separate. KEEP THE CITY MOVING • Return to City War for persistent AI rivals, Trap Raid and Block Hold operations, five city fronts, Set competition, and a separate County Line wildcard. • Connect optionally through The Wire for mutual-friend messages, private groups, clan chat, and house visits. Reporting, blocking, and profile deletion are available. Online features require an internet connection. • Experience Jail Life with work, training, commissary, contacts, and reentry goals. That Life is fictional entertainment. All locations and characters are fictional. In-game money, products, businesses, crimes, and events have no real-world cash value.

Screenshots

The Coffee Stand4 screens
That Life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: That Life at 86% against The Coffee Stand's 0%. That Life also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.5) and update cadence (daily vs every 5 days). The Coffee Stand's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. That Life sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. The Coffee Stand asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

That Life holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of The Coffee Stand's written reviews are positive against 86% of That Life's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Coffee Stand ships an update every 5 days, That Life daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
The Coffee Stand versus That Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Coffee StandThat Life
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.5 (2 ratings)4.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings26 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysDaily — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size416 MB9 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperILKER IBRAHIM CELIKBASKirk Dickey

Customer experience

The Coffee Stand

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

That Life

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

None

The Coffee Stand

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

That Life

One-time1
  • Remove Ads Forever$4.99

Questions

Is The Coffee Stand free?
The Coffee Stand is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is That Life free?
That Life is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, The Coffee Stand or That Life?
That Life is rated higher. The Coffee Stand averages 1.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while That Life averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do The Coffee Stand or That Life have ads?
Both The Coffee Stand and That Life show ads.
Which is updated more often, The Coffee Stand or That Life?
The Coffee Stand ships an update every 5 days, and That Life daily. Most recently, The Coffee Stand was updated on October 31, 2026 and That Life on October 24, 2026.

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