Comparison

Kafeo vs BeanThere

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

Head to head
About

Kafeo

Features
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Kafeo is your digital coffee loyalty companion. Collect stamps at participating cafés, track your progress, and redeem rewards for free drinks. FEATURES: DIGITAL LOYALTY WALLET Collect stamps digitally with a quick QR scan. No more lost punch cards. Track your progress toward free rewards at every café you visit. DISCOVER INDEPENDENT CAFÉS Find specialty coffee shops near you with our interactive map. Filter by city, browse menus, read reviews, and save your favorites. EVENTS & COMMUNITY See what's happening at your local cafés — tastings, latte art workshops, live music. RSVP directly in the app and never miss out. SMART NOTIFICATIONS Get notified when you're close to a reward, when your favorite café posts an event, or when there's a special promotion just for you. SECURE & SIMPLE Sign in with Google or email. Protect your account with Face ID or fingerprint. Your loyalty, your way. HOW IT WORKS: 1. Sign up for free 2. Visit a participating café 3. Scan the QR code or request a stamp 4. Collect stamps and earn free rewards Currently available at cafés in Estonia and Pakistan with more locations coming soon!

About

BeanThere

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BeanThere is a social coffee journal for rating coffee shops and home made brew . Every cup you drink gets a real review, a photo, a few notes — and everything you log builds into a map, a profile, and a set of badges you actually had to earn. TWO KINDS OF REVIEW Cafe Hopper — you're out. Pick the cafe from the list of places nearest to you, rate the cup, and it lands on the map for everyone else. Home Barista — you're at the machine. Log the beans (scan the bag), the grinder and setup, and how the shot actually came out. A MAP OF EVERY CUP Reviewed cafes appear with their average score — green for the good ones, gold for solid, rust for the ones to skip. Tap a pin for the cafe's page: its overall rating, its scores broken down, and every review left there. No cafe shows up until someone has actually reviewed it, so the map is built entirely by people, not by listings. A FEED THAT'S ACTUALLY YOURS Three ways to read it — Following for the people you've chosen, Near Me for what's being poured around you right now, and Recent for everything new. Search for other caffe lovers, follow them, and watch their cups roll in. BEANS, NOT JUST CAFES Scan the bag and BeanThere recognises the coffee — roaster, origin, process. Give the bean its own rating, tag the flavors you taste, and rate acidity, body and sweetness. Every bean has a page with what drinkers taste and the cafes that serve it, and every roaster has one too. Review a bean on its own, add a photo of the bag, and share any bean to your story. Search by name, roaster or flavor — "milk chocolate" finds the beans that taste like it. BADGES YOU EARN BY DRINKING - Heavy Hitter — you keep ordering it strong - Plant-Based Patrol — oat, almond and soy loyalist - Home Barista — three or more home brews logged - Espresso Purist — no milk, no compromise - Harsh Critic — tough but fair RATE WHAT MATTERS Give every cup your own coffee rating from 1 to 5, in half points. That's the score. Then add the details: flavor balance, coffee strength, vibe and presentation, and latte art for milk drinks. They show on your review without changing your verdict, because a coffee can be strong and still not be good. YOUR PROFILE Your favorite coffee, your bio, your avatar, your badge shelf, and every review you've written in one place. Follower and following lists included. Free. No ads. Just coffee.

Screenshots

Kafeo4 screens
BeanThere4 screens

Verdict

The call

Kafeo and BeanThere are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kafeo ships an update monthly, BeanThere every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Kafeo versus BeanThere: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKafeoBeanThere
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.1
Further details — not scored
Size32 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScoopMedia OUNADAV SHEFI

In-app purchases

None

Kafeo

No in-app purchases

None

BeanThere

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kafeo free?
Kafeo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BeanThere free?
BeanThere is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Kafeo or BeanThere have ads?
Neither Kafeo nor BeanThere shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kafeo or BeanThere?
Kafeo ships an update monthly, and BeanThere every 3 weeks. Most recently, Kafeo was updated on October 25, 2026 and BeanThere on October 31, 2026.

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