Tasting Grounds vs 51Eat
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
51Eat
Discover local food businesses, from farms to restaurants, in New York's Capital Region. Find what's nearby, search menus for specific items, and filter by cuisine or dietary tags. Explore events, buy tickets, and even shop directly from local producers.
- Local food business map
- Menu and listing search
- Dietary and cuisine filters
- Event discovery and ticketing
- Direct local shopping
- Business messaging
- Favorite and share places
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51Eat is your guide to local food in the 518, the Capital Region of New York. Farms, bakeries, breweries, cafes, food trucks, and the restaurants that cook with them are all on one map. FIND WHAT'S AROUND YOU Browse by category, or open the map to see what's nearby, including pop-ups and farm stands that move around. Search for a business, an event, or something specific to eat. Type "sourdough" or "maple" and 51Eat searches menus and shop listings. Filter by cuisine, or by tags like organic, vegan, and gluten-free. MORE THAN RESTAURANTS 51Eat is for everyone who grows, makes, or serves food here: farmers, bakers, butchers, brewers, cideries, coffee roasters, cheesemakers, and more. Find dinner out, or find what you need to cook it yourself. EVENTS AND TICKETS Tastings, markets, classes, and dinners from local businesses, sorted by today, this weekend, or this month. RSVP in a tap, or buy tickets all in one place. SHOP LOCAL Some businesses sell through 51Eat. Order from their shop and have it shipped, or pick a time to pick it up. At farm stands that use 51Eat, scan the stand's QR code with your camera and pay from your phone. SAVE AND SHARE Favorite the places you like. When they post an update, announce an event, or set up somewhere new, you'll get a notification. Make lists like "Saturday market run" or "Best bagels in Albany" and share them with friends. ASK A BUSINESS Message businesses that have messaging turned on, and get answers right in the app. MADE IN SCHENECTADY 51Eat is built in the Capital Region by people who eat here. We're adding new businesses every week. Know a place that should be on the map? Suggest it right from the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 51Eat at none against Tasting Grounds's 2. Tasting Grounds's advantage is ratings volume (47 vs 3). 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. 51Eat 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 51Eat. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tasting Grounds has 47 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Tasting Grounds | 51Eat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (47 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 47 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tasting Grounds, LLC | 51Eat, LLC. |
Customer experience
Tasting Grounds
51Eat
In-app purchases
Tasting Grounds
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
51Eat
No in-app purchases









