Comparison

Roastguide vs BrewPrint

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

BrewPrint

Features
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Better coffee by design. BrewPrint is a precision brewing calculator for people who grind and brew their own coffee. Set your ratio and BrewPrint does the math, keeping water, coffee, and ratio in balance. Then brew along to a timer built for your method: a simple count-up timer free, or a full guided staged timer with Pro. THE RATIO CALCULATOR (free) • Water, coffee, and ratio as one connected equation. Adjust any value and the other two update instantly. • A precise drag-to-adjust scale with haptic ticks, or tap to type an exact number. • Sensible ranges for real brewing: water 50–2000g, coffee 5–200g, ratios from 1:2 espresso to 1:20. • Weights are always in grams to match your coffee scale; switch temperature between Celsius and Fahrenheit any time. BREW METHODS (free) • Curated, ready-to-brew recipes for V60, Chemex, AeroPress, French Press, Espresso, Moka Pot, and Cold Brew — each with a sensible default ratio and stage timings. • An on-demand prep guide for each method: what gear you need and how to set up, step by step. THE BREW TIMER • Free: a clean count-up timer for any brew. • Pro: a full staged timer driven by your recipe. Each step — bloom, pour, wait, drain — shows as a proportional arc on the ring, with the target weight and instruction for that stage, and a water-level gauge that rises and draws down as you go. BLUEPRINTS (Pro) • Save any recipe as a named Blueprint: method, ratio, water, coffee, grind size, water temperature, timed steps, notes, and a star rating. • Load a Blueprint to set everything at once. Pin one as the default for its method so it's ready the moment you open it. THE PANTRY (Pro) • Track the coffees you brew: roaster, roast level, roast date, taste notes, and a star rating. Only the name is required, so adding a bag takes seconds. • Roast-aware freshness tells you when a bag is resting, at its peak, or going stale, so you know what to reach for and when to reorder. • Attach a coffee to any brew to build a per-bean history, and filter your Brew Log by coffee or roaster. BREW LOG (Pro) • Keep a history of the brews you've made, so you can repeat the good ones and learn from the rest. ICLOUD SYNC • Your Blueprints, brew log, and settings sync privately across your iPhones through your own iCloud account. No BrewPrint account, ever — and we never see your data. BREWPRINT PRO • A single one-time purchase unlocks the full staged timer, unlimited custom Blueprints, the Brew Log, the Pantry, and custom app icons. Try the staged timer free before you buy. Designed to feel like a technical drawing — blueprint grid, monospaced readouts, nothing you don't need. No account, no ads, and it works completely offline. Your morning brew isn't a good time to load a spinner. Better Coffee By Design.

Screenshots

Roastguide4 screens
BrewPrint4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Roastguide at 17.0 against BrewPrint's 26.2. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Roastguide sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $22.99 per year and BrewPrint sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Roastguide ships an update weekly, BrewPrint every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Roastguide versus BrewPrint: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoastguideBrewPrint
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHumanized ABSTEPHEN P JOHNSTON

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Roastguide

Subscriptions1
  • No Beans, No Worries Pass$22.991 Year
1 purchases

BrewPrint

One-time1
  • BrewPrint Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Roastguide free?
Roastguide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BrewPrint free?
BrewPrint is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Roastguide or BrewPrint have ads?
Neither Roastguide nor BrewPrint shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Roastguide or BrewPrint?
Roastguide ships an update weekly, and BrewPrint every 5 days. Most recently, Roastguide was updated on June 5, 2026 and BrewPrint on September 8, 2026.

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