IKAWA Pro vs Catador CVA
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
Catador CVA
This app provides a digital version of the SCA coffee cupping scoresheet, allowing users to easily rate sensory criteria and record comments. It offers different cupping formats and administrative features like managing cupping flights and exporting data via PDF links. Cuppings are also synced to the cloud for safekeeping.
- SCA cupping scoresheet replication
- Slider-based sensory rating
- Uniformity, Clean Cup, Sweetness categories
- Comment recording
- Automatic score tallying
- Cupping flight management
- PDF data export
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Catador CVA replicates the industry standard SCA new coffee cupping scoresheet with an easy-to-use system of sliders to rate sensory criteria and tick boxes to mark off-cups in the categories of Uniformity, Clean Cup and Sweetness. Record your comments for each section, and total scores are tallied immediately and accurately on the top bar in the Total Score box. So simple, and yet it works perfectly. The three different formats are available: Affective, Descriptive and Combined. Catador CVA goes further to include administrative features that make it even more useful in the field. From the Home screen, you can add and delete cupping flights, identifying the number of samples in each group. After the day’s cupping is done (or when asked to turn in your Q Grader cupping evaluation), users can also permanently lock each flight so that it cannot be changed later. The system gives you a popup warning that the operation cannot be undone. No cupping scoresheet application can be fully functional in the real world unless you have some way to export the data. A PDF link generation is available to share with anyone around the world, with a unique URL. Cuppings are synced safely to the cloud for future reference or if you change devices. Terms of use are located here: https://appsupport.cs.com.gt/apps/catador-cva/termsofuse
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Catador CVA at 100% against IKAWA Pro's 35%. IKAWA Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads and device support 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. Catador CVA sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. IKAWA Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
IKAWA Pro ships an update every 2 weeks, Catador CVA every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IKAWA Pro | Catador CVA |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (12 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 34.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 124 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IKAWA ltd. | Softlogic, S.A. |
Customer experience
IKAWA Pro
Catador CVA
In-app purchases
IKAWA Pro
No in-app purchases
Catador CVA
- Monthly unlimited cuppings$4.991 Month
- Yearly unlimited cuppings$49.991 Year







