Comparison

Tasting Grounds vs BeanBook

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
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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

About

BeanBook

Log your coffee beans and brewing sessions to refine your perfect cup. Save favorite recipes and track different brewing methods without social pressure or streaks.

Highlights
  • Save coffee bags with details
  • Log brewing shots with parameters
  • Save and repeat favorite recipes
  • Track multiple brewing methods
  • Export your data
  • One-time purchase for Pro features
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BeanBook is a quiet logbook for the coffee you brew at home. You log a bag. You log a shot. You can repeat what worked. That's the product. — What you can do — • Save bags with roaster, origin, process, roast level, and roast date. • Pin the bag you're currently working through. • Log shots with dose, yield, time, grind, and a 1–5 rating. • Save a shot as a recipe and brew it again with one tap. • Track espresso, pour over, AeroPress, French press, moka pot, and cold brew — spelled the way the specialty community spells them. — What it isn't — • No followers. No feeds. No daily streaks nagging you. • No "coffee score" ranking you against strangers. • Notes are a single field, not a text editor. • Your data is yours; export it any time. — BeanBook Pro — • Pro is a one-time purchase. Pay once, yours forever. • Unlocks unlimited bags, brews, and recipes, plus extra themes. • Future Pro features stats, export, more themes are included when they ship. • Family Sharing supported. Built for the person who pulls one or two shots in the morning, mostly the same coffee for a week or two, and occasionally dials in something new. BeanBook gets out of the way.

Screenshots

Tasting Grounds4 screens
BeanBook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Tasting Grounds at free against BeanBook's free with in-app purchases. Tasting Grounds also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (47 vs 2). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tasting Grounds sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and BeanBook sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tasting Grounds against 5.0 for BeanBook. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tasting Grounds has 47 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tasting Grounds ships an update every 9 days, BeanBook every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tasting Grounds versus BeanBook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTasting GroundsBeanBook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (47 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings47 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTasting Grounds, LLCMOVIECLUB LLC

Customer experience

Tasting Grounds

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

BeanBook

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tasting Grounds

Subscriptions2
  • Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
1 purchases

BeanBook

One-time1
  • BeanBook Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Tasting Grounds free?
Tasting Grounds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BeanBook free?
BeanBook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tasting Grounds or BeanBook?
BeanBook is rated higher. Tasting Grounds averages 4.9 out of 5 from 47 ratings, while BeanBook averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Tasting Grounds or BeanBook have ads?
Neither Tasting Grounds nor BeanBook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tasting Grounds or BeanBook?
Tasting Grounds ships an update every 9 days, and BeanBook every 5 weeks. Most recently, Tasting Grounds was updated on November 3, 2026 and BeanBook on October 31, 2026.

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