Comparison

VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone vs Roasters

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

Head to head
About

VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone

This professional tool assists baristas, roasters, and café operators in designing and analyzing coffee and espresso beverages. It offers a simple, drag-and-drop interface for recipe creation, with automatic calculations and conversions for various brewing methods. The software also supports detailed data entry and analysis for equipment design.

Highlights
  • 2-step design process with direct chart data entry
  • Drag-and-drop coffee recipe design
  • Supports all brewing methods
  • Conversions for volume, weight, and units
  • Extraction Yield normalization
  • Full recipe details database
  • Touch-screen data input with pan and zoom
Features
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PROFESSIONAL COFFEE TOOLS DESIGN SOFTWARE for the BARISTA, SPECIALTY ROASTER, CAFÉ and RESTAURANT OPERATOR and COFFEE & ESPRESSO BEVERAGE EQUIPMENT DESIGNER Based on MoJoToGo – Best New Product SCAA EXPO 2010 VST's UNIVERSAL BREWING CONTROL CHART SOFTWARE For Coffee, Espresso, Cupping and Equipment Design • Simple 2-Step Design Process with Direct Chart Data Entry Select the point on the Chart and the amount of Beverage, Brew Water or Coffee Dose. VST CoffeeTools™ does everything else. • Drag-and-Drop coffee recipe design works in all modes. All recipe values are automatically calculated and displayed for any brewing recipe protocol. Full conversions provided, including between brewing methods. • Portrait and Landscape mode charts supported • Works with all types of brewing methods including: drip and auto-drip; infusion and full-immersion, cupping and espresso methods. • Supports iTunes File Sharing. Import/Export all data and measurements. • Share individual recipes, data & measurements to/from other versions of VST CoffeeTools. • Fully functional with or without a coffee refractometer. Refractometer measurements may be plotted separately using measured total dissolved solids (% TDS) and Beverage amounts to chart and compare actual brew results to design target values. • Conversions for volume and weight measurements and U.S. Standard (English) to Metric units are supported in any combination. Design recipes for Drip can be directly converted to/from Infusion/Immersion methods, while maintaining identical extraction and strength relationships. •Extraction Yield normalization is automatically provided on the VST Universal Brewing Control Chart for all brew methods: Drip, Infusion, Espresso, Cupping; brew water temperature (volume measurements); liquid retained in spent grounds; CO2 & Moisture content of the ground coffee. Defaults are provided for all preferences, and may be customized separately for all modes as required. • A wide array of Presets are provided in all modes of operation that are typical of those found in home and commercial service. Each mode provides a full set of custom Presets that are user defined. • Full recipe details database maintained separately for Coffee, Espresso and Cupping. Sorting by Date, Name and Taste Score provided. • The VST Universal Brewing Control Chart supports direct touch-screen data input, pan and zoom functions, auto-scrolling of chart with ordinate and abscissa axis and reset functions. Design points for % TDS and % EXT are step-less with snap-to-grid increments provided (TDS @ 0.05% and EXT at 0.1% increments). Region of Interest (ROI) overlays are optionally provided for SCAA, SCAE, NCA regions with taste defect labels. Custom User defined ROI is also included separately for all modes. • Complete calculation results are displayed for: Dose, Brew Water, Beverage, Liquid Retained Ratio, Spent Grounds Weight, Coffee or Espresso Brew Ratio, Extraction Yield in both Design and Measured values.

About

Roasters

Discover specialty coffee shops worldwide with detailed listings, stunning visuals, and user ratings. Personalize your coffee journey by saving favorites, tracking visited places, and sharing notes. Connect with a global community, find coffee jobs, and stay updated on events.

Highlights
  • Discover specialty coffee shops globally
  • Detailed shop listings with ambiance
  • User-generated ratings and reviews
  • Personalize coffee journey with lists and notes
  • Connect with a global coffee community
  • Find coffee industry jobs and events
Features
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Find a great cup anywhere, log every visit, and keep the record of everywhere coffee has taken you. Seen our "Great Coffee Inside" sticker on a café window? This is the app behind it. Shops that care put it up, and the map of all of them is in your pocket. FIND GREAT COFFEE, ANYWHERE Open the map in any city and see the specialty coffee shops around you. Search as you move, and filter by what matters: open now, newest, nearest, or the shops you have saved. When you land somewhere new, Best Near Me ranks the shops within walking distance by rating against how far you would walk. Every listing carries what decides a visit: photos, opening hours, the espresso machine and grinder on the bar, the roasters served, and separate ratings for coffee, service and place. LOG EVERY VISIT One tap saves the moment: the shop, what you drank, a photo, a note. Your visits build into a timeline of your coffee life, chaptered by trip. That flat white in Lisbon two years ago? Still there. SET YOUR YEARLY CHALLENGE How many coffee shops will you visit this year? Pick a number and watch the count climb, visit by visit, with a home-screen widget that keeps score. TAKE A SHIFT BEHIND THE BAR Shake your phone for Coffee Run: a 60-second shift at the counter. Take the order, carry the cup, don't spill a drop. Everyone plays the same floor each day. Your best, your regulars and your Barista Path are yours. TRAVEL LIKE A COFFEE PERSON Roasters was built for the specialty coffee traveller. One reviewer put it best: "It changed the way I travel. I started looking for accommodation only near a coffee shop." Plan the trip around the coffee. This is the map for it. RATE, REVIEW, BELONG Rate the coffee, the service and the place separately, and tag the drinks you tried so the next person knows what to order. See what your city is drinking, follow reviewers around the world, and climb the leaderboard, or quietly read along. AND THE REST Lists to build, public or private. Roasters as first-class citizens, not just cafés. Coffee jobs and events, posted by the shops themselves. Keeps working on a weak signal. Roasters is free to explore and free to log. Roasters Pro adds the power tools: Best Near Me, the open-now and nearest filters, review translation, and unlimited map searches. Great coffee inside. Go find it. Privacy Policy: https://g2.getterms.io/view/IlGR1/privacy/en-us Terms of Service: https://g2.getterms.io/view/IlGR1/tos/en-us

Screenshots

VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone4 screens
Roasters4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Roasters at Free against VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone's $39.99. Roasters also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 19) and chart position (#113 vs unranked). On ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Roasters is free to download; VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone costs $39.99 up front. Roasters sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Roasters holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roasters has 111 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone's written reviews are positive against 65% of Roasters's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone ships an update every 5 months, Roasters every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone versus Roasters: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhoneRoasters
Price$39.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (6 ratings)4.3 (111 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better65.5% of reviews
Number of ratings6111 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#113 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.6
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVSTRoasters Technologies

Customer experience

VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Roasters

All ratings109 ratings
Positive81.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative15.6%
Written reviews84 reviews
Positive65.5%
Neutral3.6%
Negative31.0%

In-app purchases

None

VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone

No in-app purchases

16 purchases

Roasters

Subscriptions10
  • Become a PRO member$2.991 Month
  • Become a PRO member$3.991 Month
  • Become a PRO member$4.991 Month
Show 7 more
  • Become a PRO member3 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Business PRO7 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • Become a PRO member$19.991 Year
  • Become a PRO member$29.991 Year
  • Business PRO$99.991 Year
  • Business PRO$149.991 Year
  • Business PRO$249.991 Year
One-time6
  • Pro Club$7.99
  • Lifetime$9.99
  • Lifetime$11.99
Show 3 more
  • Lifetime$14.99
  • Lifetime$19.99
  • Lifetime$24.99

Questions

Is VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone free?
VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone costs $39.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Roasters free?
Roasters is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone or Roasters?
Roasters is rated higher. VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone averages 4.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Roasters averages 4.3 from 111 ratings.
Do VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone or Roasters have ads?
Neither VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone nor Roasters shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone or Roasters?
VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone ships an update every 5 months, and Roasters every 9 days. Most recently, VST CoffeeTools PRO for iPhone was updated on October 26, 2026 and Roasters on October 26, 2026.

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