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.
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.
- Bean inventory management
- Roasting session logs
- Bean and roast ratings
- CloudKit integration for data sync
- Digital coffee journal
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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!
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers | Coffee DTR Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bart Jacobs | Mike Whaley |
Customer experience
Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers
Coffee DTR Timer
In-app purchases
Dark Roast for Coffee Lovers
No in-app purchases
Coffee DTR Timer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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