Bunafr vs Roast Manager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bunafr
This app allows users to roast coffee beans at home using pre-set profiles or custom settings. Monitor heat, airflow, and agitation to achieve your desired roast level. You can also purchase green coffee beans and roasters directly through the app.
- Custom roast profiles
- Automatic roasting
- Monitor roasting parameters
- Buy green coffee beans
- Purchase roasters and accessories
- Share roast profiles (future)
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At Bunafr, our green mission starts with green beans. Bunafr App lets you roast Bunafr Coffees according to perfected roast profiles or create your own custom roast by monitoring various parameters and adjusting settings, including heat, airflow, and agitation. The app also shows what others have roasted. You can also buy green coffee beans, roasters, and other accessories from the company. Key Features: Buy roasters and green coffee beans Integration with Bunafr Roaster Automatic roasting of Bunafr Coffees and generic roasts at five different levels: Light, Medium, Medium-Dark, Dark, and French Custom roasting of your own green coffees or Bunafr Coffees Future release: Connect with the community to share and collect roast profiles (future feature)
Roast Manager
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Roast Manager is a simple app for home coffee roasters. With it you can manage your: • green coffee • roasting profiles • coffee roasts • coffee containers The app is kept relatively simple, but everything has a comment field where additional content can be entered. Data is automatically synced across all your devices via iCloud. Additionally, the app features NDEF-compatible NFC tag support, allowing you to easily identify and manage your coffee storage containers (on devices with NFC support).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Roast Manager at none against Bunafr's shown. Roast Manager also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 2 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bunafr ships an update every 2 months, Roast Manager every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on June 6, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bunafr | Roast Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Karma Inc | Guido Scheffler |
In-app purchases
Bunafr
No in-app purchases
Roast Manager
No in-app purchases








