Tasting Grounds vs Espresso Tuner
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
Espresso Tuner
This app helps you craft the perfect espresso with a precise shot timer and a brewing journal. Log your grind settings, ratios, and pressure to refine your recipes and consistently achieve great-tasting coffee.
- Precise shot timer
- Brewing journal
- Track grind settings
- Log coffee ratios
- Record pressure
- Rate espresso shots
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Espresso Tuner helps you perfect your coffee with a beautiful shot timer and an easy-to-use brewing journal. Track your grind settings, coffee ratios, and pressure while rating each shot to remember your best recipes. Built for coffee lovers, from beginners to expert baristas, who want to brew consistently great espresso. Take control of your espresso with a clean, simple interface that lets you focus on what matters - making amazing espresso.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Tasting Grounds at free against Espresso Tuner's free with in-app purchases. Tasting Grounds also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (47 vs 3). Espresso Tuner's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 84%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Espresso Tuner sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tasting Grounds against 5.0 for Espresso Tuner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tasting Grounds has 47 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Tasting Grounds's written reviews are positive against 100% of Espresso Tuner's.
Tasting Grounds ships an update every 9 days, Espresso Tuner monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tasting Grounds | Espresso Tuner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (47 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tasting Grounds, LLC | Amirhossein Baradaran Toutounchi |
Customer experience
Tasting Grounds
Espresso Tuner
In-app purchases
Tasting Grounds
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
Espresso Tuner
- Lifetime access$1.99
- EspressoTuner Pro$3.99
Questions
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