IKAWA Pro vs Acaia Orbit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IKAWA Pro
This app enables precise, repeatable coffee sample roasting with digital control. Design, edit, and share roast profiles, and access a global library for consistent results across teams and locations. It automates heat and airflow for hands-free operation.
- Digital roast profile design and editing
- Automated heat and airflow control
- Global roast profile library access
- Profile sharing with colleagues
- Hands-free roasting execution
- Roast data logging and history
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IKAWA’s Sample Roaster is enabling consistent, repeatable roasting by using digital precision. It improves quality, saves time and encourages collaboration and learning through profile sharing. SMARTER SAMPLE ROASTING The IKAWA Sample Roaster will automatically adjust heat and airflow to match your roast profile. This means consistency between your roasts and everyone else on the team, over and over again. Design and edit roast profiles with up to 20 temperature points and 10 fan points, then repeat roasts or fine tune your roast profiles. Edit profiles for the Exhaust Temperature Sensor, Inlet Sensor, and airflow with up to 20 control points on each line. ONLINE ROAST PROFILE LIBRARY IKAWA Sample Roaster profiles are shareable, and you can access our global roast profile library or share your own with your colleagues. HANDS FREE ROASTING WITH DIGITAL PRECISION AND CONTROL The IKAWA Pro App delivers hands free roasting with the incredible precision and control. Set a profile on the app, press go and the roaster will execute that roast with precision. CREATING A COMMON LANGUAGE Not only will you have access to our Roast Profile Library with profiles from around the world, but you can create a company set of roasts. This means from location to location, day to day, the roasts you and your team sample are the same. Save and share profiles and roast history, including; Colour Change, First Crack, Development Time Ratio, Rate of Rise graph, Roast Data CSV, Photos and Notes IKAWA’s patented Sample Rosters and designed and manufactured in our London workshop. To learn more, please visit www.ikawacoffee.com/for-professionals
Acaia Orbit
Enhance your coffee grinding experience with this companion app. Customize grinding speed, save profiles for weight or time, and control grinder functions for precise coffee preparation.
- Adjust grinding speed (600-1500 RPM)
- Customize Orbit button actions
- Save grind by weight/time profiles
- Initiate grind on demand
- Enable reverse burr function
- View grinder status and usage data
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Acaia Orbit App Introducing the companion app to the Acaia Orbit grinder. Access, customize, and control your grinder through this one interface and take your coffee to the next level. Use the app to tailor your grinding experience: adjust the grinding speed (600-1500 RPM), change the Orbit button’s actions, save profiles for grind by weight or grind by time, and more. Features: - Connect and Grind: A suite of immediate actions including a sliding RPM bar for burr control, initiating grind on demand, and enabling reverse burr. - RPM Presets: Three highly customizable RPM presets for your grinder. - Grinder Status: Button functions, total motor running time information, Orbit serial number, Orbit firmware version, and the power usage of your last grinding session. - Orbit Button Action: Customize your grinder’s main button and its actions to suit your workflow including pulse, clean, and pause - Auto Settings: Automatically start and stop your grinding depending on if your grinder is connected to a scale, clean sequences, and set your Orbit to switch off after being left idle to save on energy. - Advanced Settings: Clear your paired scale connection, reset your grinder to default, toggle your scale connection permissions. About the Presets One of the key features of the companion app is the ability to adjust your grinder with finite detail. Even when not connected to your grinder, you can set three grinding programs by both speed and target weights. In a dedicated section, choose your target weight, enable RPM profiling, and receive readings from previous sessions. Receive data about every grind you perform. Grinder Connection Turn on the Orbit by plugging it into a power source and switching the main button on the back of the platform to on. Press the front button of the Orbit. On the Orbit App select “connect to Orbit” to connect. Purchase the Orbit and discover other Acaia products by visiting our official website at https://www.acaia.co Need any help? Visit support.acaia.co or email support@acaia.co This is the first public version of the Orbit companion app. We appreciate any feedback so we can elevate and maintain your experience in the future. Please send your thoughts to our support team by email and include screenshots and explanations of any issues or suggestions. Note: This is the first public version of the Orbit companion app and we will be adding even more features in weeks to come. We appreciate any feedback so we can elevate and maintain your experience in the future. Please send your thoughts to our support team by email and include screenshots and explanations of any issues or suggestions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Acaia Orbit at 100% against IKAWA Pro's 35%. Acaia Orbit also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.3). IKAWA Pro's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Acaia Orbit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: IKAWA Pro has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 35% of IKAWA Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Acaia Orbit's.
IKAWA Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, Acaia Orbit every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IKAWA Pro | Acaia Orbit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (12 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 34.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IKAWA ltd. | acaia |
Customer experience
IKAWA Pro
Acaia Orbit
In-app purchases
IKAWA Pro
No in-app purchases
Acaia Orbit
No in-app purchases









