Tasting Grounds vs Taygo
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
Taygo
This social food app helps you document your dining experiences, create a list of places to try, and discover new culinary spots. Share recommendations with friends and explore trending dishes and restaurants.
- Log food and drink experiences with descriptive notes
- Build a personalized 'Try List' of restaurants and dishes
- Share recommendations with friends in-app
- Discover trending dishes and new places
- Filter locations by specific categories
- Follow friends for real-time updates
- Use a 'Magic 8 Ball' feature for meal decisions
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Taygo is the social food app designed to help you memorialize every bite and sip you indulge in. Log restaurants, bars, food, and drinks you've had or want to try. Discover your next favorite spot. Share it all with friends. This ultimate foodie companion is the living journal you'll refer back to whenever you're looking for your next culinary experience. Organized, searchable, and community driven so you can stay in the loop and explore tastes beyond your boundaries. KEY FEATURES: - Conversational search: Search in full sentences for a restaurant, bar, food, or drink you want. - Log Experiences, Not Numbers: Forget boring 5-star scales. Rate your food and drinks using adjectives and notes that actually tell a story. - The Essential "Try List": Avoid the "where should we eat?" struggle. Build a personalized bucket list of dishes, drinks, restaurants, and bars you want to hit next. - Share Effortlessly: Found a spot your crew would love? Recommend restaurants and bars to friends in-app so they don't get lost in the group chat. - Explore with Ease: Use our discovery tools to find top-rated dishes, new cuisines, and trending places exactly where you are. - Get Specific: Need a dog-friendly spot for your next lunch outing? A chic rooftop bar for date night? Filter places by category to make sure they fit your needs. - Stay in the Loop: Follow your friends to see their latest ratings and reviews in a real-time feed. HOW IT WORKS: - Track: Log what you love (and what you don’t) to create a digital footprint of every meal. - Stack: Add trending spots to your Try List so you’re always ready for the weekend. - Inspiration: Browse your feed to see what your followers and the community are rating a hit or a miss. - Share: Friends don't let friends stay hangry. Invite your people to join the fun and exchange in-app recommendations. RATE. DISCOVER. SHARE. REPEAT. Download Taygo to level-up your dining experiences.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Taygo at none against Tasting Grounds's 2. Taygo also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 84%). Tasting Grounds's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (47 vs 1). On price, rating and device support 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. Taygo asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Tasting Grounds against 5.0 for Taygo. 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. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Tasting Grounds's written reviews are positive against 100% of Taygo's.
Tasting Grounds ships an update every 9 days, Taygo monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tasting Grounds | Taygo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (47 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tasting Grounds, LLC | Fuse Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
Tasting Grounds
Taygo
In-app purchases
Tasting Grounds
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
Taygo
No in-app purchases
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