Comparison

Roasters vs steep

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

steep

Discover cafes and bars with detailed reviews and curated itineraries. Find the perfect spot for any occasion, from working alone to a first date, with a unique scoring system for quality, atmosphere, and value. Explore cities with personalized, walkable routes based on real user experiences.

Highlights
  • Detailed venue reviews
  • Unique scoring system
  • Moment-based tagging
  • Interactive city maps
  • Curated itineraries
  • Walkable route builder
Features
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Find the right place for this moment. steep is a global cafe and bar guide, written and reviewed by one person who drinks too much coffee and too much wine in too many cities. Every venue is visited and paid for out of pocket. No one pays to be featured. No one pays to be ranked higher. THE STEEP INDEX Every review is scored across five axes: quality (coffee or drink), atmosphere, solo-friendliness, value, and staying power. One overall score. No stars, no vague vibes, just an honest breakdown of what you're walking into. PERFECT FOR Every venue is tagged for the moment you're actually in: working alone, a first date, a slow weekend, people watching, no laptops, an espresso pilgrimage. Filter by what you need right now, not just by neighborhood. WHAT'S INCLUDED, FREE Sign in with a one-time email code (no password) and get full access to every review, city guide, interactive map, curated itinerary, and PDF city guide. Save places, mark them visited, and leave yourself notes. None of this is paywalled. 35 CITIES Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Chiba, Taipei, Bangkok, Seoul, Lisbon, Porto, Melbourne, New York, Stockholm, Oslo, Granada, San Sebastian, Madrid, Helsinki, Tallinn, Edinburgh, and more added regularly. BUILD A DAY Pick a city, a time of day, and a vibe. Get a walkable route built from real reviews, not a generic list. Built for people who care where they end up, not just what's nearby.

Screenshots

Roasters4 screens
steep4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: steep at 5.0 against Roasters's 4.3. steep also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 19) and review sentiment (100% vs 65%). Roasters's advantage is ratings volume (111 vs 2) and chart position (#200 vs unranked). On price, ads, device support 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. steep asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

steep holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roasters has 111 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Roasters's written reviews are positive against 100% of steep's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Roasters ships an update every 9 days, steep every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Roasters versus steep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoasterssteep
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (111 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings111 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#200 — better—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB8 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRoasters TechnologiesMark Francisco

Customer experience

Roasters

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

steep

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

steep

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Roasters free?
Roasters is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is steep free?
steep is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Roasters or steep?
steep is rated higher. Roasters averages 4.3 out of 5 from 111 ratings, while steep averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Roasters or steep have ads?
Neither Roasters nor steep shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Roasters or steep?
Roasters ships an update every 9 days, and steep every 4 days. Most recently, Roasters was updated on October 29, 2026 and steep on October 28, 2026.

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