Bean Beast vs Tasting Grounds
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bean Beast
Record and organize your favorite coffee recipes, including brew parameters and equipment used. Track your coffee beans and roasters, and recall your ratings for specific beans to remember your preferences.
- Recipe tracking with brew parameters
- Equipment specification for recipes
- Bean and roaster organization
- Bean rating history
- Support for all brew methods
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Bean Beast helps you create amazing coffee by allowing you to keep track of the recipes, ratings, and beans you like best. Compatible with all coffee brew methods: espresso, pour-over, aeropress, french press, and more. App Features: - Recipes -- Add your favorite coffee recipes and keep track of all the brew parameters. (Grind, dose, temperature, etc) - Equipment -- Have multiple grinders or espresso machines? No problem; you can specify which one you used for each recipe. - Beans & Roasters -- Add your various beans and roasters to keep everything nice and organized, and see recipes for a specific bean. - Bean Ratings -- Do you ever struggle to remember exactly what you thought of a specific bean that you *know* you've had before? Fret not; you can just look at your previous rating for it :) Bean Beast is under active development and I'm working to polish and add more features. To see my development roadmap, you can visit http://beanbeast.com/roadmap Enjoy! Zach
Tasting Grounds
This app helps specialty coffee enthusiasts brew better coffee by logging brew details, tasting notes, and ratings. Connect with friends and the wider coffee community to share experiences, discover new coffees and roasters, and learn about coffee origins and processing methods.
- Log brew details and tasting notes
- Rate coffees like a professional
- Share brews and methods with friends
- Discover coffee origins and processing
- Explore new roasters and brewing techniques
- See community tasting notes and ratings
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Brew Coffee Together! Tasting Grounds is the specialty coffee app designed to connect the coffee community and help everyone brew better coffee together. - Log and rate your brews - record the details of your brewing process (such as brewer, water to grounds ratio, brew time, and more), the flavors you are tasting, and scoring notes like a coffee professional. - Share with your friends and the community - share your coffees and brewing methods, see what your friends are drinking, and discuss how we all enjoy our coffee differently. - Learn more about your coffee - see details about where your coffee was grown, how it was produced, and what flavors your roaster tastes as well as how others are brewing the same beans, what others are tasting, and how others are rating their brews. - Discover new things - discover similarities in the coffees that you do or don’t enjoy, explore new roasters from around the world, and find new ways to brew better coffee. We hope you enjoy using Tasting Grounds! Don’t forget to give us feedback at https://tastinggrounds.com/contact or follow us on Twitter (@tastinggrounds) and Instagram (@tastinggrounds)! TOS: https://tastinggrounds.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bean Beast at none against Tasting Grounds's 2. Bean Beast also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Tasting Grounds sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Bean Beast asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Bean Beast against 4.9 for Tasting Grounds. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 47 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Bean Beast's written reviews are positive against 84% of Tasting Grounds's.
Bean Beast ships an update weekly, Tasting Grounds every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bean Beast | Tasting Grounds |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (18 ratings) | 4.9 (47 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews — better | 84.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 | 47 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 62 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Swinehart | Tasting Grounds, LLC |
Customer experience
Bean Beast
Tasting Grounds
In-app purchases
Bean Beast
No in-app purchases
Tasting Grounds
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
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