Spinn vs Tasting Grounds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spinn
This app connects you to a marketplace of over 120 coffee roasters, offering a revolutionary way to make quality coffee and espresso at home. It works with a smart coffee maker that grinds beans and brews various coffee types, aiming to reduce waste from coffee pods.
- Connects to 120+ coffee roasters
- Smart coffee and espresso maker
- Built-in grinder and brewer
- Scan coffee bags for brewing instructions
- Brew espresso, coffee, and cold brew
- Eliminates coffee pods
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Hello Coffee Lover, Spinn is the all-in-one coffee and espresso maker connected to a marketplace that features 120+ roasters. Improve the way you make coffee at home and to eliminate coffee pods from the planet with Spinn. Download our app to purchase coffee and learn more about the Spinn revolution. Buy our Spinn Maker that features a built in grinder and centrifugal brewer. Scan the coffee bags you purchase to get the perfect espresso, coffee or cold brew. You don’t have to settle for an inferior coffee experience at home, get Spinn today!
Tasting Grounds
This app helps specialty coffee enthusiasts brew better coffee by logging brew details, tasting notes, and ratings. Connect with friends and the wider coffee community to share experiences, discover new coffees and roasters, and learn about coffee origins and processing methods.
- Log brew details and tasting notes
- Rate coffees like a professional
- Share brews and methods with friends
- Discover coffee origins and processing
- Explore new roasters and brewing techniques
- See community tasting notes and ratings
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Brew Coffee Together! Tasting Grounds is the specialty coffee app designed to connect the coffee community and help everyone brew better coffee together. - Log and rate your brews - record the details of your brewing process (such as brewer, water to grounds ratio, brew time, and more), the flavors you are tasting, and scoring notes like a coffee professional. - Share with your friends and the community - share your coffees and brewing methods, see what your friends are drinking, and discuss how we all enjoy our coffee differently. - Learn more about your coffee - see details about where your coffee was grown, how it was produced, and what flavors your roaster tastes as well as how others are brewing the same beans, what others are tasting, and how others are rating their brews. - Discover new things - discover similarities in the coffees that you do or don’t enjoy, explore new roasters from around the world, and find new ways to brew better coffee. We hope you enjoy using Tasting Grounds! Don’t forget to give us feedback at https://tastinggrounds.com/contact or follow us on Twitter (@tastinggrounds) and Instagram (@tastinggrounds)! TOS: https://tastinggrounds.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spinn at none against Tasting Grounds's 2. Spinn also leads on ratings volume (11K vs 47). Tasting Grounds's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (84% vs 69%). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Tasting Grounds sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Spinn asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Spinn against 4.9 for Tasting Grounds. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spinn has 11K ratings behind it against 47, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 69% of Spinn's written reviews are positive against 84% of Tasting Grounds's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and August 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spinn | Tasting Grounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (11K ratings) | 4.9 (47 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.9% of reviews | 84.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 47 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 9 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #192 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Spinn. | Tasting Grounds, LLC |
Customer experience
Spinn
Tasting Grounds
Bugs and requests
Spinn
Reported bugs
3 issues- Frequent disconnections from app
- Brewing issues (clogging, inconsistent volume)
- Errors requiring hard resets
Requested features
5 requests- Store past coffee recipes
- Ability to upload custom recipes
- Larger water reservoir
- Quieter grinder
- Scheduling/timer options
Tasting Grounds
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spinn
No in-app purchases
Tasting Grounds
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
Questions
Is Spinn free?
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