Comparison

Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers vs Coffee DTR Timer

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers

This app helps coffee enthusiasts manage their bean inventory, log roasting sessions, and rate beans and roasts. It serves as a digital journal to enhance your coffee experience and refine your brewing skills.

Highlights
  • Bean inventory management
  • Roasting session logs
  • Bean and roast ratings
  • CloudKit integration for data sync
  • Digital coffee journal
Features
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Dark Roast is a companion for anyone who has a passion for coffee. It is designed to enhance your coffee experience with the ability to track bean inventory, rate your favorite beans and roasts, and maintain detailed logs of every roasting session. Key Features ========= 1. Bean Inventory Management: With Dark Roast, you'll never lose track of your bean stock again. Easily add, remove, or update beans in your inventory and keep an eye on their freshness and quantity. 2. Roasting Logs: Whether you're a novice home roaster or a seasoned barista, Dark Roast helps you document your roasting process and results for each batch, including quantity and roast time. 3. Bean and Roast Ratings: Rate and review different types of beans and your own roasts based on flavor profiles, quality, and your personal taste preferences. This feature enables you to remember the beans you loved, the ones you'd rather avoid, and how your roasting has improved over time. 4. CloudKit Integration: With Dark Roast, you don't have to worry about losing your inventory data or roasting logs. Your information is securely stored and synced through iCloud, so you can access it from any device at any time. Dark Roast is your ultimate digital coffee journal, taking your coffee obsession to new heights. Discover, refine, and share your coffee journey. Enjoy your brews like never before!

About

Coffee DTR Timer

This app helps coffee roasters time their roasts accurately. It allows users to input roaster, bean, and weight details, then track key stages like yellowing and first crack. The timer calculates development time, weight loss, and provides a roast summary for logging.

Highlights
  • Roast stage timing (Yellowing, First Crack, Drop)
  • Live Development Time (DTR) calculation
  • Weight loss calculation
  • Roast history logging
  • Favorite and delete roasts
  • Custom roaster and bean input
Features
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This simple coffee roast timer is used with your roaster of choice. Add your roaster name, bean name and green weight with units on the setup screen. On the timer screen hit start when you start your roast. Tap the Yellowing button when the beans start to turn yellow and the drying phase time is saved. Tap First Crack at the sound of first crack and the Maillard phase time is saved and live DTR is enabled allowing to dial in development time! Tap Drop/End and the development time along with DTR, maillard time, time to first crack and total roast time are shown to allow you to log your roast information. Add roasted weight and weight loss is calculated. Save roast will add to roast history and display the roast summary screen. On the history screen the user can favorite or delete roasts from the history.

Screenshots

Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers4 screens
Coffee DTR Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Coffee DTR Timer at 4.8 against Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers's 4.0. Coffee DTR Timer also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1). Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.5). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Coffee DTR Timer holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Coffee DTR Timer has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers versus Coffee DTR Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDark Roast for Coffee LoversCoffee DTR Timer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings16 — better
Update frequency—Every 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBart JacobsMike Whaley

Customer experience

Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Coffee DTR Timer

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers

No in-app purchases

None

Coffee DTR Timer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers free?
Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Coffee DTR Timer free?
Coffee DTR Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers or Coffee DTR Timer?
Coffee DTR Timer is rated higher. Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Coffee DTR Timer averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers or Coffee DTR Timer have ads?
Neither Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers nor Coffee DTR Timer shows ads.

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