Roasters vs Coado
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
Coado
This app acts as a personal coffee brewing guide and journal. It offers step-by-step timers for various brewing methods and allows users to log and track their brews, including taste profiles and bean details. It helps you recreate your favorite coffee experiences.
- Step-by-step guided brewing timer
- 18+ brewing methods supported
- Curated barista recipes
- Guided and advanced brewing modes
- Detailed brew logging with ratings and notes
- Bean tracking and import
- Offline functionality
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Coado is your pocket barista and coffee journal in one. Whether you're pulling your first pour-over or dialing in the perfect ratio, Coado guides every brew and remembers what made each cup great — so you can make it again. BREW WITH CONFIDENCE - Step-by-step guided timer walks you through every pour in real time, with gentle haptics and sound cues so you can keep your hands on the kettle. - 18 brewing methods: V60, Chemex, Kalita, Origami, Clever, AeroPress, French Press, Cold Brew, Moka Pot, Espresso, Cappuccino, Cortado, Flat White, Latte, and more. - Curated recipes from world-class baristas as reliable starting points, including James Hoffmann's Ultimate V60 and Tetsu Kasuya's 4:6 Method. TWO MODES THAT GROW WITH YOU - Guided mode keeps it simple: pick a recipe, follow the timer, enjoy. - Advanced mode unlocks dose, ratio lock, water temperature, grind, and per-pour targets for total control. A JOURNAL THAT REMEMBERS - Log every brew with a star rating, taste profile (strength, acidity, bitterness, body), flavour notes, and a photo of the finished cup. - Tag which beans you used so you always know what worked. - Brew again from any past log in one tap. SEE YOUR COFFEE AT A GLANCE - A monthly heatmap calendar shows every day you brewed, with color intensity that rises with your best cups. - Browse your most recent brews or jump to your top-rated ones. TRACK YOUR BEANS - Save your coffee bags with origin and roast level. - Import bean details straight from a roaster's product page by pasting a link. BUILT FOR THE KITCHEN COUNTER - Works fully offline — no account, no internet required. - Metric and imperial units, switchable anytime. - Warm, calm design that's a pleasure to use every morning. Never forget what made that perfect cup. Brew it, rate it, repeat it — with Coado. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://coado.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Coado at 100% against Roasters's 65%. Coado also leads on device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 17.6). Roasters's advantage is ratings volume (110 vs 1) and rating (4.3 vs 4.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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 16 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Coado sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Roasters holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roasters has 110 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Roasters's written reviews are positive against 100% of Coado's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Roasters ships an update every 9 days, Coado every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Roasters | Coado |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (110 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 110 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #188 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 165 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Roasters Technologies | Rodrigo Fortes |
Customer experience
Roasters
Coado
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 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
- Pro Club$7.99
- Lifetime$9.99
- Lifetime$11.99
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- Lifetime$14.99
- Lifetime$19.99
- Lifetime$24.99
Coado
- Coado+ Monthly$3.991 Month
- Coado+ Yearly7 Days trial$34.991 Year









