Comparison

Roasters vs Nom Staff

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

Nom Staff

Features
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Nom Staff is the kitchen and front-of-house companion for businesses on Nom404. Every order placed through a customer's QR scan appears in real time, ready to be confirmed, prepared, marked ready, and served. HOW IT WORKS 1. Sign in with the staff account your business owner created for you 2. Watch incoming orders appear in real time 3. Tap Confirm to acknowledge each order 4. Move tickets through Preparing, Ready, and Served as you go 5. Tap any order for full ticket details: modifications, dietary tags, and special instructions FEATURES - Live kitchen view: every new order arrives instantly with sound, vibration, and a spoken announcement - Voice announcements for new orders, payment verifications, follow-ups, and cancel requests - Allergen alerts surface in red with priority alerting so the kitchen never misses a dietary risk - Tap to call the customer when there is a question about a modification or pickup - Live order timer so you always know how long a ticket has been waiting - Built-in payment proof verification for GCash and Maya when manual mode is on - Void approval flow that respects business-owner controls - Receipt re-printing and printer pairing for thermal printers - Multi-branch awareness: staff can be scoped to a single branch or to a region - Works on iPad in landscape with large touch targets designed for busy kitchens BUILT FOR THE PHILIPPINES Designed for Filipino kitchens with GCash and Maya payment verification, BIR-aware receipt rendering, and Tagalog and English support. Nom Staff is for the staff of restaurants and cafes that use Nom404. You need a staff account created by your business owner to sign in.

Screenshots

Roasters4 screens
Nom Staff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Nom Staff at none against Roasters's 19. Nom Staff also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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. Nom Staff asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Roasters ships an update every 9 days, Nom Staff every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Roasters versus Nom Staff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoastersNom Staff
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (111 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews65.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings111 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoasters TechnologiesLex Caraig

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
None

Nom Staff

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Roasters free?
Roasters is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nom Staff free?
Nom Staff is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Roasters or Nom Staff have ads?
Neither Roasters nor Nom Staff shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Roasters or Nom Staff?
Roasters ships an update every 9 days, and Nom Staff every 3 days. Most recently, Roasters was updated on October 26, 2026 and Nom Staff on October 25, 2026.

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