Roastguide vs Tasting Grounds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roastguide
Explore a vast catalog of specialty coffee roasts and roasters. Get personalized recommendations, track your brewing experiences with detailed notes, and connect with a community of coffee lovers. Discover new favorites and grow your coffee expertise.
- 40,000+ specialty coffee roasts catalog
- Personalized weekly coffee picks
- Snap photos for instant coffee details
- Follow roasters for new releases
- Log and rate brewing experiences
- Detailed tasting notes and coffee tracking
- Expert brewing guides and tips
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Featured on the App Store. Where great coffee finds you. The world's largest specialty coffee catalog with 40,000+ roasts from over 1,100 roasters, updated multiple times daily through our living database. Journey through specialty coffee with Roastguide, your digital coffee companion. Our intelligent recommendations and real-time catalog updates ensure exceptional roasts find their way to you, then make them part of your story through personalized brewing logs, detailed tasting notes, and community connections. Discover & Explore Browse our unparalleled catalog of 40,000+ specialty roasts, updated multiple times daily Get personalized Weekly Picks curated just for your taste preferences Snap photos of any coffee bag for instant details and information Follow roasters and get notified when they release new coffees Track Your Journey Log and rate every brewing experience with intuitive tools Keep detailed notes of your coffee adventures and discoveries Monitor your coffee collection with smart bag tracking Build streaks and track your coffee habits over time Grow Your Expertise Access expert brewing guides and professional tips Learn through detailed flavor profiles and coffee stories Connect with fellow coffee enthusiasts in our growing community Share your discoveries and learn from other coffee lovers Connect with Coffee People Follow other coffee enthusiasts and see their reviews Share your profile and coffee journey with friends Join thousands of coffee lovers discovering amazing roasts daily Our living database and intelligent recommendations mean you'll never miss your perfect cup. From finding your next favorite roast to perfecting your brewing technique, Roastguide helps you write your unique coffee story while great coffee finds you. Download now and let great coffee find you!
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 monetization model: Tasting Grounds at free against Roastguide's free with in-app purchases. Tasting Grounds also leads on ratings volume (47 vs 3) and chart position (#192 vs unranked). Roastguide's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 84%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Roastguide sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $22.99 per year and Tasting Grounds sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Roastguide against 4.9 for Tasting Grounds. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tasting Grounds has 47 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Roastguide's written reviews are positive against 84% of Tasting Grounds's.
Roastguide ships an update weekly, Tasting Grounds every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and August 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roastguide | Tasting Grounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.9 (47 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 84.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 47 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #192 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Humanized AB | Tasting Grounds, LLC |
Customer experience
Roastguide
Tasting Grounds
In-app purchases
Roastguide
- No Beans, No Worries Pass$22.991 Year
Tasting Grounds
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
