Tasting Grounds vs Dribly App
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
Dribly App
This app automatically tracks your bar visits using GPS and sends timely reminders to encourage responsible drinking. It logs your night's timeline, shows nearby bars on a map, and allows easy sharing of your location with friends. It also integrates with ride-sharing services for safe travel home.
- Auto-detects bar arrivals via GPS
- Smart, escalating drinking reminders
- Logs bar visit timeline
- Live map of nearby bars
- One-tap friend location sharing
- Direct Uber/Lyft integration
- 100% on-device data storage
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What Dribly does: — Auto-detects bars using GPS and starts your timer the moment you arrive. Switch venues and it switches with you. — Sends smart, escalating reminders: a water break at 30 minutes, a check-in at 1 hour, a nudge to head home after 2. — Logs a clean timeline of every bar you visited — name, arrival time, and duration — so you can review your night in the morning. — Shows a live map of bars nearby with real walking distances and one-tap Apple Maps directions. — Lets you text your buddy in one tap: your current location, how long you've been there, and how many stops you've made — without typing a word. — Connects directly to Uber and Lyft when it's time to get home safe. — Keeps everything 100% on your device. No accounts. No servers. No data leaving your phone. Ever. Free to download. No sign-up. No subscription. Just open it and go.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dribly App at none against Tasting Grounds's 2. Dribly App also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days). Tasting Grounds's advantage is ratings volume (47 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Dribly App 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 Dribly App. 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, Dribly App every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tasting Grounds | Dribly App |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tasting Grounds, LLC | RODION ALEKSEEVICH SADOVNYK |
Customer experience
Tasting Grounds
Dribly App
In-app purchases
Tasting Grounds
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
Dribly App
No in-app purchases
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