Tasting Grounds vs Coffee Grind
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
Coffee Grind
Analyze coffee grind particle size to optimize your brewing. Compare profiles, rate brews, and share your settings for various coffee methods. Ensure perfect extraction for your favorite coffee.
- Optimize grinder settings
- Compare ground coffee profiles
- Rate coffee brews
- Share coffee profiles
- Check grinder burrs
- Supports various brewing methods
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The size of ground coffee particles has the main influence on the rate and the total amount of coffee extraction. - Optimize your grinder settings. - Compare ground coffee profiles. - Rate your coffee brews. - Share your profiles. - Check your grinder burrs. - Suitable for Espresso, Pour Over, French Press, Aeropress, Moko Pot, Turkish coffee or Cold brew. - Get a perfect cup of coffee!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tasting Grounds at 84% against Coffee Grind's 29%. Tasting Grounds also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.6) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). Coffee Grind's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Tasting Grounds sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Coffee Grind asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tasting Grounds holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 47 and 21 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Tasting Grounds's written reviews are positive against 29% of Coffee Grind's.
Tasting Grounds ships an update every 9 days, Coffee Grind every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tasting Grounds | Coffee Grind |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (47 ratings) — better | 2.6 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews — better | 29.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tasting Grounds, LLC | Richard Wurzer |
Customer experience
Tasting Grounds
Coffee Grind
In-app purchases
Tasting Grounds
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
Coffee Grind
No in-app purchases
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