Roastmaster vs QUANTIFY CVA
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roastmaster
This app helps coffee roasters achieve consistent, perfect cups by tracking roast data, managing green bean inventory, and facilitating blend creation. It offers detailed reporting, visual analysis tools, and optional thermocouple integration for automated roasting.
- Roast data tracking and analysis
- Green bean inventory management
- Blend creation and experimentation
- Cupping score recording
- Automated roast reminders
- Roaster maintenance scheduling
- Optional thermocouple data logging
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Precision roast profiling is only the beginning. Roastmaster goes far beyond managing your workflow and cataloging your data. By integrating your workflow, data, and analysis, it reveals insights that would otherwise go unnoticed—the patterns within your data and the story they tell. Whether you're pursuing the perfect cup or a stronger bottom line, Roastmaster helps you understand how the pieces fit together—bringing a gestalt to coffee roasting. KNOW YOUR INVENTORY Your inventory is more than a tally. It's a living picture of your coffee’s potential. Every origin, process, harvest, lot, and purchase tells part of the story. Roastmaster makes every detail of your inventory easy to explore and understand visually. PLAN WITH CONFIDENCE Keeping inventory stocked is about more than avoiding shortages. It's about keeping the coffees you need when you need them. Roastmaster helps you leverage seasonal trends and historical usage patterns to plan your orders with confidence. MONITOR BEAN QUALITY Coffee is always changing. Harvests, seasons, and even individual lots all influence quality. Roastmaster preserves that history over time so you can understand how it affects both flavor and consistency from one roast—and one season—to the next. LOG VIRTUALLY ANYTHING Roasting is the heart of it all—and Roastmaster has plenty of heart. Whether you're logging temperatures from supported probe hardware, gas pressure from DIY Bluetooth electronics, or entering readings manually, Roastmaster adapts to the way you roast…and never forgets a detail. LEARN FROM EVERY ROAST Every roast is an opportunity to improve the next. Roastmaster helps you capture what worked, learn from what didn't, and build a library of profiles that evolves with your experience. Create profiles manually, from completed roasts, or even target previous roasts on the fly. STAY ON COURSE Monitor temperature projections, roast phases and key milestones in real time so you can make confident decisions as you roast. Profiles, targeted roasts or auto-trigger events can provide audible alerts to make sure you don’t miss a thing. ELEVATE YOUR WORKFLOW Spend less time preparing roasts and more time roasting. Roastmaster streamlines setup, lets you create new roasts from existing data, and even prepares production runs to meet a desired yield. CREATE YOUR BRAND TASTE–AND KEEP IT Beans change from crop to crop, but your signature flavor doesn't have to. Build a library of custom blends, experiment with snapshots to refine every recipe, and preserve the character your customers expect from season to season. EVALUATE FOR EXCELLENCE Every cup has something to teach. Whether you're rating a morning brew or conducting a formal cupping session, Roastmaster helps you capture the details with multiple tasting protocols, intuitive scoring tools, and visual comparisons that connect every evaluation back to the decisions that shaped it. READ THE STORY Why collect data if you never stop to understand the story it tells? Roastmaster's powerful analytics reveal how beans, lots, roasts, blends, and all their quality, varietal, and cost attributes shape both flavor and business outcomes. It helps you see the complete picture—and make better decisions because of it. Roastmaster is free to download and explore. Features vary by subscription tier. Learn more at rainfroginc.com. Privacy Policy: https://rainfroginc.com/privacy-policy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
QUANTIFY CVA
Digitize coffee evaluations with this tool, enabling accurate, consistent, and data-driven assessments. Save, share, and analyze your coffee quality data to improve training and communication.
- Customizable evaluation templates
- Input evaluations by category
- Statistical analysis and visualization
- Evaluator management
- Convert to SCA CVA PDF forms
- Cloud-based access
- Real-time multi-user sync
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The "Quantify CVA" Coffee Value Assessment App is a digital tool built to perform quantitative coffee assessments using the official Coffee Value Assessment (CVA) system developed by the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA). It overcomes the limitations of traditional handwritten cupping forms and enables accurate, consistent, and data-driven evaluations that can be saved, shared, and analyzed anytime. "Quantify CVA" app was created as a joint venture between BP&Solution and ENTARO. Core Features 1. Creation Mode: Enables creation of customizable evaluation templates. Supports morphological evaluation, emotional evaluation, and combined evaluation templates, with configurable settings for country, variety, and processing method. 2. Assessment Mode: Allows inputting evaluations by category (aroma, aftertaste, acidity, sweetness, mouthfeel, overall impression) with automatic saving. 3. Analysis Mode: Performs statistical analysis and visualization of inputted data to identify quality trends. 4. Administrator Mode: Controls overall system operations: evaluator management, progress monitoring, and data integrity maintenance. 5. Conversion Mode: Converts app-generated templates into SCA (Specialty Coffee Association) CVA PDF forms. Technical Features - Cloud-based access — Evaluate from anywhere - Real-time multi-user sync — Evaluate together, remotely - Multiple output options — Export data to PDF, Excel, or via API - Encrypted data protection — Security you can trust Use Cases - Roasteries / Green Coffee Buyers: Quality comparison, data-based selection, standardization of coffee value assessment - Training Centers / Seminars: Sensory skills development, class evaluation, learner performance analysis - Export/Import Businesses: Streamlined communication through objective evaluation results - Research Institutions: Deriving comprehensive quality insights by correlating CVA data with scientific analysis Recommended For - Baristas who want to standardize and visualize their cupping data - Trainers managing sensory evaluation for learners or staff - Coffee professionals looking to communicate with clarity across stakeholders - Researchers transforming sensory input into data-driven insights The Future of Coffee Evaluation Starts Here - Digitize the sensory quality of coffee - Build a language for communicating value - Ensure fairness, traceability, and transparency in coffee evaluation - Improve training, competitions, and education through clear, consistent data CVA App: A tool to translate your sensual experiences into quantifiable data Now, with quantified coffee value, fairer and smarter assessments begin. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: QUANTIFY CVA at every 3 weeks against Roastmaster's every 5 months. QUANTIFY CVA also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Roastmaster sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and QUANTIFY CVA sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Roastmaster ships an update every 5 months, QUANTIFY CVA every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roastmaster | QUANTIFY CVA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (29 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 88 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rainfrog, Inc. | BP&Solution Co.Ltd |
Customer experience
Roastmaster
QUANTIFY CVA
Bugs and requests
Roastmaster
Reported bugs
30 issues- App crashes
- Cannot connect to Bluetooth probe (specific machine)
- Cannot connect to cloud
- Increase Contrast iOS setting obscures preference settings
- App is no longer usable without buying entitlements
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- Subscription only service after purchase
- Stealth switch to subscription
- Long time users are being locked out
- App is dated
- Support for cheaper, off the shelf Bluetooth probe thermometers is nonexistent
- When making a copy of a roast, probes have to be rebound
- Cannot inventory blends
- Update today, no longer usable without buying entitlements
- Bricking the app for long time users
- Was a great app, not too sure about this latest update
- App flashes and cannot be used
- Cannot connect to cloud, Apple says it's private
- App is very unfriendly
- Features seem to change with no warning or pattern
- Sometimes able to compare roast profiles, then feature drops out
- Login screen freezes
- Incompatible with older devices
- The graph is a bit hard to read
- The dark background makes it hard to decipher graphs
- The database sometimes comes up as the old version when passed via Dropbox
- Data entry could be simplified
- The timing values are not entirely clear
- Pressing the start button when roasting closes the roast screen
- It is not entirely clear what the timing values are
- The timing values are not entirely clear
Requested features
26 requests- Add development percentage to roast screen
- Ability to store low to medium resolution image with a roast
- Ability to make a blend from existing roasts
- Support for cheaper, off-the-shelf Bluetooth probe thermometers
- Copy roast including data curve
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- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
- iWatch app for manual data logging
- Ability to hide unwanted sections
- Remember or save curve names and parameters when adding a curve
- Bean inventory should not go into negative numbers
- Easier to read graphs
- Can change minimum temp of graph
- Section for moisture loss percentage
- Section for development percentage
- Section for preheat temp
- Database syncing via iCloud or Dropbox
- Ability to store photos with roast profile
- Ability to import and export roast curves (csv or text)
- View several curves superimposed on one plot
- Easier to input data during a roast
- View and compare roast graphs post roast
- Type in time for timer instead of ring slider
- Data in blends based on proportions for blend roast quantity
- Enter cost with inventory to calculate cost/kg for each blend
- Ability to create blends by combining beans before the roast
QUANTIFY CVA
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Roastmaster
- Basic Monthly$4.991 Month
- Pro Monthly$19.991 Month
- Premium Monthly$39.991 Month
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- Basic Yearly$49.991 Year
- Pro Yearly$199.991 Year
- Premium Yearly$399.991 Year
- Data Logging$14.99
QUANTIFY CVA
- CVA Premium Subscription$9.991 Month
Questions
Is Roastmaster free?
Is QUANTIFY CVA free?
Do Roastmaster or QUANTIFY CVA have ads?
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