Tasting Grounds vs Cafey
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
Cafey
Discover nearby cafes and explore their drink menus. Get personalized recommendations based on your preferences and save places to try. Review individual drinks with photos and scores to share with other coffee enthusiasts.
- Find nearby cafes and drinks
- Browse cafe details and menus
- Personalized cafe matches
- Save places to try
- Review individual drinks
- Share feedback with users
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Cafey makes it easier to decide where to go and what to order. Explore cafés near you, browse drinks, and narrow results by location, flavor, and vibe. If you’re not sure where to start, use Matches to discover options based on what you actually enjoy. With Cafey, you can: • Find cafés and drinks nearby • Browse café details, menus, directions, ratings, and reviews • Get personalized café matches • Save places you want to try • Review individual drinks with photos, an overall score, quick ratings, and tags • Share useful feedback with other café lovers Cafey is still growing, so some café or menu information may occasionally be incomplete. If you spot something that needs attention, you can send a suggestion from the app. Whether you’re looking for matcha, coffee, boba, or somewhere new to spend the afternoon, Cafey helps you find a place worth trying.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cafey at none against Tasting Grounds's 2. Cafey also leads on update cadence (every 4 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. Cafey 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 Cafey. 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, Cafey every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tasting Grounds | Cafey |
|---|---|---|
| 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 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 189 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Tasting Grounds, LLC | JEROME EDWARD PANGAN MANARANG |
Customer experience
Tasting Grounds
Cafey
In-app purchases
Tasting Grounds
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Monthly$2.991 Month
- Tasting Grounds Pro - Yearly$24.991 Year
Cafey
No in-app purchases









