Comparison

Roasters vs Roast Manager

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

Roast Manager

Features
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Roast Manager is a simple app for home coffee roasters. With it you can manage your: • green coffee • roasting profiles • coffee roasts • coffee containers The app is kept relatively simple, but everything has a comment field where additional content can be entered. Data is automatically synced across all your devices via iCloud. Additionally, the app features NDEF-compatible NFC tag support, allowing you to easily identify and manage your coffee storage containers (on devices with NFC support).

Screenshots

Roasters4 screens
Roast Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Roast Manager at none against Roasters's 19. Roast Manager also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and iOS requirement 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. Roast Manager asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Roasters ships an update every 9 days, Roast Manager every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Roasters versus Roast Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoastersRoast Manager
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (110 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews65.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings110 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoasters TechnologiesGuido Scheffler

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
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  • 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
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  • Lifetime$14.99
  • Lifetime$19.99
  • Lifetime$24.99
None

Roast Manager

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Roasters free?
Roasters is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Roast Manager free?
Roast Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Roasters or Roast Manager have ads?
Neither Roasters nor Roast Manager shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Roasters or Roast Manager?
Roasters ships an update every 9 days, and Roast Manager every 10 days. Most recently, Roasters was updated on October 23, 2026 and Roast Manager on October 21, 2026.

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