Tasting Grounds vs TPC Coffee
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
TPC Coffee
Discover local specialty coffee shops and cafes with this guide. Find hand-selected locations and community events tailored for coffee enthusiasts.
- Discover local specialty coffee shops
- Find cafes
- Community event listings
- Curated coffee locations
- Coffee lover's guide
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The TPC Coffee app is your guide to discovering local specialty coffee shops/cafes. Featuring hand selected coffee shops as well as community events for the coffee lover.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TPC Coffee at none against Tasting Grounds's 2. Tasting Grounds's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 6 weeks) and chart position (#192 vs unranked). On price, rating, 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. TPC Coffee asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tasting Grounds against 5.0 for TPC Coffee. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tasting Grounds has 47 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Tasting Grounds ships an update every 9 days, TPC Coffee every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 19, 2026 and July 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tasting Grounds | TPC Coffee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (47 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #192 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tasting Grounds, LLC | Corktowncode LLC |
Customer experience
Tasting Grounds
TPC Coffee
In-app purchases
Tasting Grounds
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
TPC Coffee
No in-app purchases
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