Tasting Grounds vs Time & Pour
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
Time & Pour
Master your coffee brewing with interactive timers, step-by-step recipes, and personalized AI tips. Log your brews, rate flavors using a unique wheel, and track your progress to achieve the perfect cup every time.
- Interactive coffee timers
- Built-in and custom brew recipes
- Coffee flavor logging and analysis
- AI brew assistant
- Brew analytics and trends
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Brew better coffee. Master your flavor. Time & Pour is your ultimate coffee brewing app — designed to help you brew coffee with precision, consistency, and control. Use interactive coffee timers and step-by-step brew recipes, whether built-in or fully custom, to improve your morning cup. After each brew, log your coffee, rate it, and use our expressive Flavor Wheel to explore and refine the full coffee taste profile. Caffo, our smart AI brew assistant, provides personalized tips to help you improve your coffee over time. Whether you're a beginner or a home barista with 12 brewing methods on the shelf, Time & Pour is the best app to help you brew coffee better, every day. Features: • Interactive Coffee Timer – Know exactly what brew step is next • Built-In Coffee Recipes – Tried and tested for V60, AeroPress, Chemex, French Press & more • Custom Recipe Builder – Create and fine-tune your ideal coffee brewing recipe • Coffee Flavor Wheel & Journal – Log tasting notes, track coffee flavors, and record your favorites • Brew Analytics & Trends – Visualize how your ratings and flavors evolve • AI Coffee Assistant – Smart suggestions for recipes and tips to improve your brew based on your logs Start improving your daily coffee and see the difference! * Privacy Policy: https://slayterdev.github.io/time-and-pour-policies/public/privacy-policy.html * Terms of Use: https://slayterdev.github.io/time-and-pour-policies/public/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Tasting Grounds at free against Time & Pour's freemium. Tasting Grounds also leads on ratings volume (47 vs 1) and chart position (#192 vs unranked). Time & Pour's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). 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 Time & Pour sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. 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 Time & Pour. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tasting Grounds has 47 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Tasting Grounds ships an update every 9 days, Time & Pour every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on August 19, 2026 and September 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tasting Grounds | Time & Pour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (47 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Best chart rank | #192 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tasting Grounds, LLC | Slayter Development |
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In-app purchases
Tasting Grounds
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
Time & Pour
- Time & Pour Pro - Monthly3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Time & Pour Pro - Annual3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Buy me a Coffee$1.99
- Lifetime Pro$19.99
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