Comparison

Equator Coffees vs Arosti

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Equator Coffees

Order your favorite coffee ahead of time and bypass the queue. Customize your drink precisely to your liking and pick it up quickly at your chosen cafe.

Highlights
  • Order ahead
  • Skip the line
  • Customize drinks
  • Designated pick-up area
  • Quick service
Features
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In a hurry? Order ahead and skip the line with our new mobile app. Simply select your cafe, customize your drink and meet us at the designated pick-up area. You’ll be enjoying your coffee in no time!

About

Arosti

Discover coffee tailored to your unique palate by scanning bags and rating cups. This app learns your preferences to provide personalized recommendations, moving beyond generic star ratings to understand your taste profile.

Highlights
  • Scan coffee bags with your camera
  • Rate coffee cups and add tasting notes
  • Personalized taste profile creation
  • Receive tailored coffee recommendations
  • Discover local roasters and cafes
  • Track coffee history and preferences
Features
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The best-rated coffee isn't the best coffee for you. Two people can agree a coffee is "good" and still want completely different things from it — more body, less brightness, a fruit-forward Ethiopian one week and a dark, cocoa-heavy blend the next. Star ratings average strangers. Arosti learns YOU. SCAN THE BAG Point your camera at any coffee — on a store shelf, at a café, in your cupboard. Arosti reads the label, finds the coffee, and tells you how well it fits your taste: Excellent match, Very good, Good, Mixed, or Weak. Then it says why, in plain words, and what to watch out for. IT LEARNS FROM EVERY CUP Rate a coffee in seconds. Add what shaped it — loved the fruit, too bitter, great body — and how you made it: espresso, pour-over, AeroPress, drip, with milk, iced. Log the same coffee across different preparations and see which way you like it best. Every cup sharpens the predictions. YOUR TASTE, MADE VISIBLE Arosti builds a seven-axis taste fingerprint — Body, Bright, Sweet, Smooth, Nutty, Fruit, Roast — from what you actually rated, and lays it over each coffee's profile so you can see where they meet and where they don't. HONEST ABOUT WHAT IT KNOWS Predictions carry their confidence. A first-day guess says so. Arosti never pretends a score is more precise than the evidence behind it. REMEMBER EVERYTHING Every coffee you've tried, what you rated it, where you found it, what you paid, and what you wrote about it — in one place, searchable, yours. DISCOVER Recommendations built from your own ratings, not the crowd's, filtered to what's actually stocked near you when that's known. Roaster pages, a café map, price per pound, and links to buy direct. BUILT FOR THE GROCERY AISLE AND THE THIRD-WAVE CAFÉ Thousands of coffees from national brands and independent roasters, growing with every scan. If we don't know a coffee yet, you can still rate it — and it joins the catalog. FREE TO USE No account required to start. Sign in to keep your journal across devices. Arosti uses AI to read labels and score matches; your ratings and notes stay yours, and we never sell your data. Privacy policy: arosti.app/privacy

Screenshots

Equator Coffees4 screens
Arosti4 screens

Verdict

The call

Equator Coffees and Arosti both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Arosti's written reviews are positive against 62% of Equator Coffees's. Equator Coffees's advantage is ratings volume (4.8K vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Arosti holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Equator Coffees has 4.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Equator Coffees's written reviews are positive against 100% of Arosti's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Equator Coffees ships an update every 10 days, Arosti every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Equator Coffees versus Arosti: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEquator CoffeesArosti
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4.8K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4.8K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEquator CoffeesJohn Wilson

Customer experience

Equator Coffees

All ratings4,803 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral1.4%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews79 reviews
Positive62.0%
Neutral7.6%
Negative30.4%

Arosti

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Equator Coffees

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Login issues and account disappearance
  • Order placement problems
  • Incorrect order details displayed

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add Apple Pay support
  • Improve recent orders display
  • Provide more customization options
  • Notify users if a location is not accepting orders

Arosti

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Equator Coffees

No in-app purchases

None

Arosti

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Equator Coffees free?
Equator Coffees is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Arosti free?
Arosti is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Equator Coffees or Arosti?
Arosti is rated higher. Equator Coffees averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4.8K ratings, while Arosti averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Equator Coffees or Arosti have ads?
Neither Equator Coffees nor Arosti shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Equator Coffees or Arosti?
Equator Coffees ships an update every 10 days, and Arosti every 9 days. Most recently, Equator Coffees was updated on October 25, 2026 and Arosti on October 8, 2026.

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