Roasters vs day9 coffee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
day9 coffee
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Most coffee bags tell you the roast date. None of them tell you when the coffee actually tastes best. day9 is built around one idea: coffee has a freshness curve. It's too gassy in the first few days after roast, hits peak flavor around days 7–14 depending on the bean, then slowly declines. Roasters know this. Baristas know this. Most coffee drinkers don't — because nobody's ever made it easy to track. day9 fixes that. ADD A BAG Snap a photo of the label or enter the details manually. day9 reads the roast date, origin, and roaster, then maps out where your bag sits on the freshness curve right now and when it'll hit peak. KNOW WHEN TO BREW Get a clear signal: "too fresh," "approaching peak," "at peak," "declining." No more wondering whether yesterday's pour was off because of the grind or because the bag is past it. LOG BREWS, NOT JUST BAGS Tap to log a brew. Notice patterns: which bags taste best on which days, which roasters consistently hit your sweet spot, which origins fade fast. Your own taste history, built over time. DISCOVER ROASTERS Browse a curated directory of specialty roasters from around the world. Find new bags from operations you trust. Read why each roaster matters. WHY DAY 9? Because for most specialty coffees, that's roughly when the gas has settled, the flavors have rounded, and the bag is genuinely ready. It's a name, not a rule — every coffee is different, and day9 tracks yours specifically. NO ACCOUNTS, NO PASSWORDS Sign in with your email. We send you a link. That's it. No social logins, no data harvesting, no marketing emails. Built for people who care about coffee but don't want another app pretending to be a coffee shop. Just the timing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: day9 coffee at none against Roasters's 10. day9 coffee also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Roasters's advantage is chart position (#190 vs unranked). 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
Both are free to download. Roasters sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. day9 coffee asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Roasters | day9 coffee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (111 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 111 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #190 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roasters Technologies | Brian Diamond |
In-app purchases
Roasters
- 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 member$19.991 Year
- Become a PRO member$29.991 Year
- Pro Club$7.99
- Lifetime$9.99
- Lifetime$11.99
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- Lifetime$14.99
- Lifetime$19.99
day9 coffee
No in-app purchases









