Bean Box vs Tasting Grounds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bean Box
Discover and receive world-class specialty coffee from over 50 award-winning U.S. roasters. Curated by experts, this app delivers fresh, small-batch coffees to elevate your daily routine and bring you better mornings.
- Specialty coffee delivery
- 50+ award-winning roasters
- Expert curated selections
- Small-batch coffee discovery
- Freshly shipped coffee
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Bean Box is the #1 specialty coffee delivery app. No matter where you live, we'll bring the world’s best specialty coffee to you. Choose coffees from 50+ award-winning roasters across the U.S., curated by a world-class expert, to elevate your morning routine. Discover new and exciting small-batch coffees with every delivery, all shipped fresh for a superior morning cup. We’re on a mission to bring you better mornings. We believe great coffee isn’t just a drink, it’s an experience, and one with the power to make your mornings, and your days, even better. Download Bean Box now and start your journey to better mornings.
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: Bean Box at none against Tasting Grounds's 2. Bean Box also leads on ratings volume (748 vs 47) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Tasting Grounds's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Bean Box asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Bean Box against 4.9 for Tasting Grounds. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bean Box has 748 ratings behind it against 47, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 82% of Bean Box's written reviews are positive against 84% of Tasting Grounds's.
Bean Box ships an update every 3 weeks, Tasting Grounds every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bean Box | Tasting Grounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (748 ratings) | 4.9 (47 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | 84.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 748 — better | 47 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bean Box, Inc. | Tasting Grounds, LLC |
Customer experience
Bean Box
Tasting Grounds
Bugs and requests
Bean Box
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes on opening
- Unable to view account information
- Coupon codes not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Search and filtering options for coffees
- Ability to manage subscription details in-app
- Option to switch between whole bean and ground coffee
- Integration of past order history and ratings
Tasting Grounds
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bean Box
No in-app purchases
Tasting Grounds
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
Questions
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