Comparison

Roasters vs beans

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

beans

Preserve your coffee bags by turning them into 3D models and displaying them on a virtual shelf. Log your espresso shots and brews with detailed metrics, and receive guidance for improving your coffee-making skills.

Highlights
  • 3D coffee bag modeling
  • Virtual bag shelf display
  • Automated bag data recognition
  • Detailed shot logging
  • Brewing guidance and lessons
  • Customizable grinder and machine profiles
Features
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Your coffee bags are too good to throw away. Every bag says something — the label, the story, the roaster's whole reason for being. Then the coffee's gone, and so is the bag, into the bin with the eggshells. beans keeps it: turn any bag into a keepsake 3D model and stand it on a shelf that's actually yours — one you'll want to look at. Doesn't matter whether you're timing a shot on a manual lever machine or you just really like your fancy pod machine. If you've ever looked at an empty bag and thought "I'm not putting that one in the bin" — beans is for you. SNAP A BAG, SKIP THE TYPING Photograph the front of a bag, then the back. beans reads the label on your phone with Apple's Vision and on-device intelligence, then looks up what the label doesn't say: roaster, origin, process, tasting notes. Nothing to fill in by hand. DIAL IN ONCE Log every shot or brew: dose, grind on your grinder's own scale, yield, time and temperature. Tell beans about your grinder and machine once, stepless or click, and it gives you a starting point for a new bag. Come back to a favourite weeks later and the recipe that worked is right there. A COACH FOR YOUR FIRST BREWS New to espresso or pour-over? A few short lessons cover the basics and end with a practice brew. After that, when a brew isn't right, beans helps you work out what to change next: finer or coarser for espresso, and for pour-over, what the taste is telling you. Switch it off whenever you like. A SHELF OF YOUR OWN BAGS, IN 3D Turn any bag into a 3D model before it's gone, and stand it on your shelf. Tap it and it lifts off the shelf into its own detail view. Arrange the shelf your way — it's a collection, not a spreadsheet. PAY ONCE, OR BY THE MONTH Pay by the month, or own beans for good with one payment. In your first 48 hours, lifetime comes with 3 free 3D credits. Making a 3D bag uses a 3D credit; each one costs real money to generate, so more come in packs of 1, 3 or 10 that never expire. Every 3D bag includes a free redo for 30 days. You may also be offered a yearly plan: its first year is paid up front at an introductory price, with a 3D credit each paid year. The monthly and yearly plans renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period. Manage or cancel them in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy: https://humanmadethings.co.uk/beans-coffee/privacy/ MADE WITH CARE Light and dark, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion and Increase Contrast are all respected. No account, no sign-in. Requires iOS 27. Bag lookups and 3D models need a connection; your bags and shots are stored on your phone.

Screenshots

Roasters4 screens
beans4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Roasters at 4.3 against beans's 3.7. Roasters also leads on ratings volume (111 vs 3) and review sentiment (65% vs 50%). beans's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 9 days). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 10 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and beans sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Roasters holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roasters has 111 ratings behind it against 3, 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 50% of beans's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Roasters ships an update every 9 days, beans every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Roasters versus beans: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRoastersbeans
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (111 ratings) — better3.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews65.5% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings111 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.6 — better27.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB75 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperRoasters TechnologiesAlex Trubacs

Customer experience

Roasters

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

beans

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Roasters

Subscriptions5
  • Become a PRO member$2.991 Month
  • Become a PRO member$3.991 Month
  • Become a PRO member$4.991 Month
Show 2 more
  • Become a PRO member$19.991 Year
  • Become a PRO member$29.991 Year
One-time5
  • Pro Club$7.99
  • Lifetime$9.99
  • Lifetime$11.99
Show 2 more
  • Lifetime$14.99
  • Lifetime$19.99
8 purchases

beans

Subscriptions2
  • beans monthly$2.991 Month
  • beans yearly1 Year trial$12.991 Year
One-time6
  • One bag in 3D$1.99
  • Three bags in 3D$4.99
  • Ten bags in 3D$13.99
Show 3 more
  • Unlock beans$15.99
  • beans lifetime + 3 bags in 3D$15.99
  • beans lifetime$15.99

Questions

Is Roasters free?
Roasters is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is beans free?
beans is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Roasters or beans?
Roasters is rated higher. Roasters averages 4.3 out of 5 from 111 ratings, while beans averages 3.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Roasters or beans have ads?
Neither Roasters nor beans shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Roasters or beans?
Roasters ships an update every 9 days, and beans every 4 days. Most recently, Roasters was updated on November 6, 2026 and beans on November 8, 2026.

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