Fantastic Coffee Guide vs TipMate
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fantastic Coffee Guide
Learn to brew delicious coffee at home with step-by-step guides, grind size advice, and helpful calculators. This app demystifies coffee, helping you achieve repeatable, high-quality results with any brew method.
- Coffee basics explained
- Step-by-step brew guides
- Grind size recommendations
- Brewing calculators
- Coffee gear ROI analysis
- Quick coffee Q&A
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Fantastic Coffee Guide helps you understand coffee from the ground up — how to choose it, store it, grind it, and brew it with confidence. If you’ve ever brewed a cup with good beans and high hopes — and still ended up disappointed — you’re not alone. The good news? Most people are just a few simple fixes away from reliably delicious, repeatable coffee at home. That’s where this guide comes in. It takes the mystery out of coffee and helps you brew a slurp-worthy cup you’ll look forward to every day. Inside the app you’ll find: • Coffee basics made approachable, from freshness to roast levels • Step-by-step brew guides for popular methods • Grind size help for every brew style • Clear ratios, temperatures, and tools • Batch brew calculator • Savings calculator for brewing coffee at home • ROI calculator to know how quickly you'll pay off your coffee gear when brewing at home • Quick answers for your coffee questions Fantastic Coffee Guide is based on the book From Just Fine to Fantastic Coffee by Liz Roquet, founder of Lizzy’s Fresh Coffee. Liz has spent years helping home brewers with practical guidance to brew awesome coffee at home. Friendly, clear, and right at your fingertips — this app is here to help as you brew and sip.
TipMate
Effortlessly calculate tips and split bills with friends. This app also provides a guide to tipping customs in various countries, making dining out internationally simpler.
- Smart tip calculation
- Bill splitting
- International tipping guide
- Share bill summary
- Private and offline use
- Customizable tip percentages
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TipMate makes tipping quick and stress-free. Calculate the tip, split the bill with friends and check how tipping works in other countries, all in one simple app. Key features Smart tip calculator Pick 15%, 18%, 20% or your own default and see the tip and total instantly. Round up or down with one tap. Split the bill Split evenly between any number of people, or set a custom share for each person. International tipping guide See tipping customs for the United States, Canada, UK, France, Japan, Australia and more. Share the summary Send the bill, tip and per-person total to your group in one tap. Private and offline No account and no tracking. Everything stays on your iPhone. Sharing rent and bills with roommates? Try Fairloom from JetRise. Privacy Policy: https://jetriseitsolutions.com/Privacy-Policy/ Terms of Use: https://jetriseitsolutions.com/terms-of-use/ Support: developer@jetriseitsolutions.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Fantastic Coffee Guide at Free against TipMate's $2.99. Fantastic Coffee Guide also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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
Fantastic Coffee Guide is free to download; TipMate costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Fantastic Coffee Guide against 5.0 for TipMate. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Fantastic Coffee Guide ships an update every 8 days, TipMate every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fantastic Coffee Guide | TipMate |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lizzy's Fresh Coffee | JetRise IT Solutions LLC |
Customer experience
Fantastic Coffee Guide
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In-app purchases
Fantastic Coffee Guide
No in-app purchases
TipMate
No in-app purchases
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