Tastelab vs Time & Pour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tastelab
This app condenses essential cooking knowledge, offering calculators, ratios, and guidelines for various culinary techniques. It provides scientific principles and data for methods like sous vide, fermentation, and dehydration, aiming to simplify and enhance cooking for both experts and home cooks.
- Condensed cooking knowledge
- Calculators and ratios
- Sous Vide, Fermentation, Pickling guides
- Dehydration and Candying information
- Step-by-step culinary guidelines
- Universally usable cooking principles
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Condensed cooking knowledge with calculators, ratios, times and temperatures. All you need for Sous Vide cooking, Fermentation, Pickling, Curing and Candying, Dehydration and more. COOKING KNOWLEDGE. CONDENSED. Ratios. Principles. Calculators. All the kitchen data you ever wanted and needed in one simple app. No fluff. No single-use recipes. Just general cooking facts and numbers to improve your cooking. We read dozens of books, turned thousands of pages, compared hundreds of recipes and tables to get down to the science of cooking methods. The result? Easy-to-understand and universally usable culinary guidelines. Why? So you don't have to do the tough work. We did this for ourselves, but we know there are many cooking nerds out there. You are welcome. We are relentlessly researching and adding new theme brackets, so this is an ever growing kitchen reference. Included theme brackets: - Sous Vide Cooking Times and Temperatures for Meat (with cut conversions and synonyms), Poultry, Fish, Seafood, Vegetables, Fruits and Eggs - Fermentation including Sauerkraut, Kimchi and many more - Vinegar - Fermented Beverages: Ginger Beer, Kombucha and Shrubs - Black Fruits and Vegetables - Pickling - Salt-Curing - Candying - Dehydration - Flavoured Oils and Fats - Brining Pro content coming soon: - Pasteurisation and Sterilisation - Pressure Cooking - Deep Frying - and so much more! Key features: • COOKING KNOWLEDGE. CONDENSED. All our cooking knowledge in one single app, complete with cheat sheets, step-by-step guidelines, sample recipes, ratios and calculators. Use it as a source to refresh your memory or as a tool to learn different culinary techniques. • NO FLUFF. Cooking facts, presented in a simple and effective way to help you develop your knowledge and simplify your cooking. The Tastelab app is designed to help the expert chef and ambitious home cook save time and learn along the way. All the information you need, in one place, just one click away. • SOUGHT-AFTER THEME BRACKETS. Browse through Sous Vide Cooking, Fermentation, Flavoured Oils and Fats, Brining, Pickling, Preserving, Dehydration, Candying, Salt-Curing and many more cooking methods. And it does not stop there! More exciting content like pasteurisation and sterilisation, pressure cooking, deep frying and many more will be available soon. • STEP-BY-STEP GUIDES. SAMPLE RECIPES. We introduce every cooking technique with the basics behind it and then give you some illustrative sample recipes. Learn the principles of fermentation or the ease of sous vide cooking step-by-step. We don't like single-use recipes. We give you universally useable cooking knowledge and ideas to start you off and help you explore on your own. We promise to keep adding our guides to help you learn more. • RATIOS. Do you want to get to the next level of cooking? Learn how to cook using ratios. Be it a savoury pickling brine or the ratios for your own homemade vinegar: understand the ratio behind a cooking method and easily adapt it to other recipes. • CALCULATORS. Need help adapting a recipe? Simply adjust the recipe depending on the ingredient quantity or yield. No need to close the app and open the calculator, we made it simple and hassle-free for you. • SEARCH BUTTON. Have an ingredient in mind? Feeling adventurous? Our search button enables you to type in an ingredient and discover different methods to cook it. • CELSIUS OR FAHRENHEIT. CENTIMETERS OR INCHES. Metric or imperial. Have it your way. Download the Tastelab app today! All the cooking knowledge you'll ever need - summarized, condensed, distilled down to the essentials. Currently available in English with specific keyword translated into German and French. We are always excited to hear from you! If you have any feedback, questions, or concerns, please contact us at info@tastelab.ch.
Time & Pour
Master your coffee brewing with interactive timers, step-by-step recipes, and personalized AI tips. Log your brews, rate flavors using a unique wheel, and track your progress to achieve the perfect cup every time.
- Interactive coffee timers
- Built-in and custom brew recipes
- Coffee flavor logging and analysis
- AI brew assistant
- Brew analytics and trends
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Brew better coffee. Master your flavor. Time & Pour is your ultimate coffee brewing app — designed to help you brew coffee with precision, consistency, and control. Use interactive coffee timers and step-by-step brew recipes, whether built-in or fully custom, to improve your morning cup. After each brew, log your coffee, rate it, and use our expressive Flavor Wheel to explore and refine the full coffee taste profile. Caffo, our smart AI brew assistant, provides personalized tips to help you improve your coffee over time. Whether you're a beginner or a home barista with 12 brewing methods on the shelf, Time & Pour is the best app to help you brew coffee better, every day. Features: • Interactive Coffee Timer – Know exactly what brew step is next • Built-In Coffee Recipes – Tried and tested for V60, AeroPress, Chemex, French Press & more • Custom Recipe Builder – Create and fine-tune your ideal coffee brewing recipe • Coffee Flavor Wheel & Journal – Log tasting notes, track coffee flavors, and record your favorites • Brew Analytics & Trends – Visualize how your ratings and flavors evolve • AI Coffee Assistant – Smart suggestions for recipes and tips to improve your brew based on your logs Start improving your daily coffee and see the difference! * Privacy Policy: https://slayterdev.github.io/time-and-pour-policies/public/privacy-policy.html * Terms of Use: https://slayterdev.github.io/time-and-pour-policies/public/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Time & Pour at Free against Tastelab's $7.99. Time & Pour also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Tastelab's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and device support (3 vs 1). On ratings volume 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
Time & Pour is free to download; Tastelab costs $7.99 up front. Time & Pour sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Tastelab asks for nothing beyond the download.
Time & Pour holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
Tastelab ships an update every 2 months, Time & Pour every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tastelab | Time & Pour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $7.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Foodlab GmbH | Slayter Development |
Customer experience
Tastelab
Time & Pour
In-app purchases
Tastelab
No in-app purchases
Time & Pour
- Time & Pour Pro - Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Time & Pour Pro - Annual3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Buy me a Coffee$1.99
- Lifetime Pro$19.99









