Comparison

Roasters vs Tasting Grounds

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

Head to head
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

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Read full description

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

Screenshots

Roasters4 screens
Tasting Grounds4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Tasting Grounds at 4.9 against Roasters's 4.3. Tasting Grounds also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (84% vs 65%). Roasters's advantage is chart position (#168 vs unranked). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Roasters sells 16 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tasting Grounds holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 111 and 47 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Roasters's written reviews are positive against 84% of Tasting Grounds's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Roasters versus Tasting Grounds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoastersTasting Grounds
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (111 ratings)4.9 (47 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.5% of reviews84.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings111 — better47
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#168 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB62 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoasters TechnologiesTasting Grounds, LLC

Customer experience

Roasters

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

Tasting Grounds

All ratings46 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive84.2%
Neutral5.3%
Negative10.5%

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
2 purchases

Tasting Grounds

Subscriptions2
  • Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year

Questions

Is Roasters free?
Roasters is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tasting Grounds free?
Tasting Grounds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Roasters or Tasting Grounds?
Tasting Grounds is rated higher. Roasters averages 4.3 out of 5 from 111 ratings, while Tasting Grounds averages 4.9 from 47 ratings.
Do Roasters or Tasting Grounds have ads?
Neither Roasters nor Tasting Grounds shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Roasters or Tasting Grounds?
Roasters ships an update every 9 days, and Tasting Grounds every 9 days. Most recently, Roasters was updated on October 26, 2026 and Tasting Grounds on October 22, 2026.

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