Comparison

Tasting Grounds vs Siip

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Read full description

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

About

Siip

Explore specialty coffee with this app. Scan coffee bags to get detailed information about origin, farmer, and process. Discover new coffees matching your taste profile and purchase from top roasters worldwide.

Highlights
  • Scan coffee bags for details
  • Discover coffees matching taste profile
  • Explore and purchase from roasters
  • Save favorite coffees
  • Get brewing tips and tasting notes
Features
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Love every coffee you buy. Scan any coffee bag and Siip shows how well it matches your taste, and why. At the grocery store, at a café or at home, you'll know if you'll like it before you buy it. Most of us know what we like when we taste it, but can't say why. So we buy the same safe bag again, or gamble on the packaging. Siip learns your taste from what you actually drink, not from what you think you like. That matters: people most often say they like chocolate and nutty coffees, yet they rate floral and berry coffees higher. HOW IT WORKS 1. Scan the bag. Siip reads the label from a photo and knows more than 50,000 coffees from 6,000+ roasters. 2. See your match. Get a match score and the reasons a coffee fits you, or doesn't. 3. Rate it. Answer one question: "How was this coffee?" Every rating makes your next match sharper. WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH SIIP • Scan or search any coffee before you buy it • See why a coffee suits you, in plain words • Rate coffees from anywhere: a bag at home, a café cup, a box from Siip • Get your taste in words: the flavors, roasts and origins you rate highest • Get picks made for your taste • Keep track of every coffee you've tried and loved • Meet the roasters and farmers behind your cup No coffee knowledge needed. Just tell Siip whether you liked it. THE SIIP SUBSCRIPTION (US ONLY) Let Siip pick for you. Each box brings coffees matched to your taste from 29 independent roasters, including Onyx Coffee Lab, Equator Coffees and George Howell Coffee. Siip picks from each roaster's full catalog and learns from every coffee you rate, not only the ones we send. By the fourth box, subscribers like or love 86% of their coffees. Free shipping. Skip, pause or cancel anytime. "If you asked me six months ago what coffees I like, my answer would have been dark roast with a bunch of cream. Now, I'd tell you it's probably somewhere from Nicaragua, probably a medium roast, with notes of nuts or chocolate." Richie, Siip subscriber Join 10,000+ coffee drinkers on Siip. Download it free and scan your first bag.

Screenshots

Tasting Grounds4 screens
Siip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Siip at none against Tasting Grounds's 2. Siip also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 84%). Tasting Grounds's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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

Both are free to download. Tasting Grounds sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Siip asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tasting Grounds against 4.8 for Siip. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 47 and 112 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Tasting Grounds's written reviews are positive against 94% of Siip's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tasting Grounds versus Siip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTasting GroundsSiip
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (47 ratings) — better4.8 (112 ratings)
Positive reviews84.2% of reviews93.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings47112 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB120 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTasting Grounds, LLCSiip Inc

Customer experience

Tasting Grounds

All ratings46 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive84.2%
Neutral5.3%
Negative10.5%

Siip

All ratings110 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral0.9%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews80 reviews
Positive93.8%
Neutral5.0%
Negative1.3%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tasting Grounds

Subscriptions2
  • Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
None

Siip

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tasting Grounds free?
Tasting Grounds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Siip free?
Siip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tasting Grounds or Siip?
Tasting Grounds is rated higher. Tasting Grounds averages 4.9 out of 5 from 47 ratings, while Siip averages 4.8 from 112 ratings.
Do Tasting Grounds or Siip have ads?
Neither Tasting Grounds nor Siip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tasting Grounds or Siip?
Tasting Grounds ships an update every 9 days, and Siip every 9 days. Most recently, Tasting Grounds was updated on October 22, 2026 and Siip on October 30, 2026.

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