Comparison

Tastelab vs Coffee DTR Timer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Condensed cooking knowledge
  • Calculators and ratios
  • Sous Vide, Fermentation, Pickling guides
  • Dehydration and Candying information
  • Step-by-step culinary guidelines
  • Universally usable cooking principles
Features
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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.

About

Coffee DTR Timer

This app helps coffee roasters time their roasts accurately. It allows users to input roaster, bean, and weight details, then track key stages like yellowing and first crack. The timer calculates development time, weight loss, and provides a roast summary for logging.

Highlights
  • Roast stage timing (Yellowing, First Crack, Drop)
  • Live Development Time (DTR) calculation
  • Weight loss calculation
  • Roast history logging
  • Favorite and delete roasts
  • Custom roaster and bean input
Features
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This simple coffee roast timer is used with your roaster of choice. Add your roaster name, bean name and green weight with units on the setup screen. On the timer screen hit start when you start your roast. Tap the Yellowing button when the beans start to turn yellow and the drying phase time is saved. Tap First Crack at the sound of first crack and the Maillard phase time is saved and live DTR is enabled allowing to dial in development time! Tap Drop/End and the development time along with DTR, maillard time, time to first crack and total roast time are shown to allow you to log your roast information. Add roasted weight and weight loss is calculated. Save roast will add to roast history and display the roast summary screen. On the history screen the user can favorite or delete roasts from the history.

Screenshots

Tastelab4 screens
Coffee DTR Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Coffee DTR Timer at 100% against Tastelab's 33%. Coffee DTR Timer also leads on price (Free vs $7.99) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months). Tastelab's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.5). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Coffee DTR Timer is free to download; Tastelab costs $7.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tastelab ships an update every 2 months, Coffee DTR Timer every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tastelab versus Coffee DTR Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTastelabCoffee DTR Timer
Price$7.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFoodlab GmbHMike Whaley

Customer experience

Tastelab

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Coffee DTR Timer

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tastelab

No in-app purchases

None

Coffee DTR Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tastelab free?
Tastelab costs $7.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Coffee DTR Timer free?
Coffee DTR Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tastelab or Coffee DTR Timer have ads?
Neither Tastelab nor Coffee DTR Timer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tastelab or Coffee DTR Timer?
Tastelab ships an update every 2 months, and Coffee DTR Timer every 9 days. Most recently, Tastelab was updated on October 11, 2026 and Coffee DTR Timer on October 15, 2026.

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