Tasting Grounds vs MixCraft
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
MixCraft
Discover and create cocktails with an AI bartender and extensive recipe library. Plan drink menus, generate shopping lists, and scan existing recipes. Offers personalized recommendations and a randomizer for exploring new drinks.
- AI bartender chat
- Extensive recipe library
- Menu planning
- Automatic shopping lists
- Recipe and menu scanning
- Personalized recommendations
- Drink randomizer
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MixCraft is your mixology companion, combining an AI bartender chat with a recipe library, menu planning, and discovery tools. Chat with the AI bartender for personalized recommendations, browse thousands of cocktail recipes with step-by-step instructions, and plan drink menus for parties with automatic shopping lists. Use the camera to scan recipes and menus, customize recommendations based on your taste preferences, save favorites, and explore new drinks with the randomizer. Premium features include unlimited AI chat, Smart Menu Planner for AI-generated event menus, Smart Convert to turn notes into recipes, and Smart Refresh to refine menu suggestions. Whether you're hosting a party, exploring new flavors, or learning mixology, MixCraft helps you discover, plan, and craft drinks. Terms of Use: https://www.mixcraftapp.com/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Tasting Grounds at free against MixCraft's free with in-app purchases. Tasting Grounds also leads on ratings volume (47 vs 4). MixCraft's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 84%) and 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 MixCraft sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 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 MixCraft. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tasting Grounds has 47 ratings behind it against 4, 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 MixCraft's.
Tasting Grounds ships an update every 9 days, MixCraft every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tasting Grounds | MixCraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (47 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tasting Grounds, LLC | David Bleiweiss |
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Tasting Grounds
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In-app purchases
Tasting Grounds
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
MixCraft
- Premium (Monthly)$4.991 Month
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