Roastmaster App Reviews

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A must-have for roasting enthusiasts. I've been roasting coffee for a few months now, first in popcorn poppers and now in a Behmor home roaster. This app seemed like a good addition to my toolset. After having used it for several months, run 40+ roasts through it, logged 30+ cuppings, etc. I'm still finding awesome features! It amazes me how thorough it is. Almost every piece of my roasting/brewing operation can be managed with Roastmaster (the only thing it doesn't have is a brew timer feature – but there are other good apps like Bloom that can give you those features). I have to admit, as a web/user interface designer, I was a bit skeptical about the app's design from the screenshots. After having used it for a while, though, I've fallen in love with the interface. Believe me, it's VERY well done. Most features are very discoverable and for those that aren't, you can browse the voluminous help documents available from within the app. One of my favorite things about this app is the way you can associate everything together. For instance, I can log a cupping and associate it with a specific roast (not just a bean). As I roast, it tracks my green coffee inventory to let me know what I have left "in stock." The relational database model they talk about is super effective and well-implemented here. If you are a hobbyist (or pro) and want to take your roasting up a few notches, buy this app! It's worth every penny.

Simply Stunning! Does everything I could hope for, home roaster gone pro.. Roastmaster is an absolutely excellent app! To be honest, I was pretty sceptical and never pay even close to $10 for an app... ever. I thought that the screen shots were pretty but I feared that the app itself would be just 'pretty' without being a robust and scalable tool. I was totally and completely wrong. I started home roasting several years ago and am now in the process of launching my own coffee roasting business. I used Behmor Thing for a long time since one of my roasters is the Behmor. While that application is good and provides many similar functions(roasting, inventory, cupping etc.), Roastmaster is 1000X better. It is scalable and flexible - all data can be edited (in real time for the most part). I needed something that would help track roasts (obviously), track inventory, track tasting from batches (or groups of batches), handle blends, etc. Blends can be created from green beans or roasted beans either by weight or %. You can create temp curves, profiles, add vendors & costs paid for beans. I can't image much that a home roaster or small shop roaster would need that this app does not provide. I've roasted <30 times with it and every day I find more I like it more and more. Aside from the roaster itself this app has become an essential tool for me. Little parts of the UI that I didn't realize were functional... are. I found a little roast timer today by accident that you can set on the fly anywhere in the roast cycle, useful for multitaskers so you don't miss a critical moment like 1C. I love that there is integtration with Dropbox. This means that with a few very simple steps I can roast with my iPhone even though typically roast with my iPad. Simply export the current database to Dropbox (from the iPad), then navigate to dropbox and open it on the iPhone (It promtps you to open it replacing the current data on that device or open it along side) and you're off and roasting with your other device. Brillant! This is quite literally the best $10 I've spent in recent memory. For the record I am not employed or affiliated by the developer at all. I'm just a happy roaster =)

Flawless!. This is the most I've paid for an app, but believe it is worth every penny. Very well done. Really takes advantage of the ipad functionality and takes my home roasting to a new level. Now I can throw out my notebook, index cards and spreadsheets and keep all the data in one place.

Roastmaster. Don't waste your time. It takes longer to use the program than to roast coffee. Create your own in numbers. Way faster doing it your way. Thumbs down

Great app - with one bug.. Great app! Love it. One issue: turning on the iOS setting “Increase Contrast” obscures the description for all Preference settings. Sorry for posting bugs here. I didn’t want to create an account on the forum.

Absolutely the best. I've got a small roasting business and this is bar-none the best app and tool to do what I do. It'd be great to have a way to also communicate with others in this business and possibly be able to even offer coffee to others. Thanks to the developer! This is a great app!!

HUGE update!!. Thank you! ❤️

Nice App. I use this app often, roasting multiple times a week. It's great for simply tracking your roasts. Timing, first crack, etc. I would like some upgrades though. It would be very useful if it were easier to input data during a roast. I like to make note of when the coffee hits certain temperatures. It would also be useful to be able to view and compare roasts graphs post roast. Other than a few improvements this is a great app.

Great app with a few small issues. Really good app for coffee roasting. I really like almost everything about it. The only problem/request that is have is that you let me type in the time for the timer instead of using the frustrating ring slider thing to set the alarm.

Great, well designed, modern app. I avoided this app for a long time because I *wrongly* thought it was dead and from the iOS 6 area of skeuomorphism. Screenshots on their website are dated, the roaster graphic threw me, along with infrequent updates. I finally bought it today on the verge of writing my own app, and oh boy am I glad I did! I’ve really been missing out for a long time. It’s well thought out, feature rich, and works very well. If you home roast, and don’t want to use Artisan, this app is a must have. I have a Behmor, and it has custom profiles just for that which is great and niche because I can’t easily put probes in there and the automatic modes are already profiled.

Truly Great App. I love this app. It's a great example of what apps can be. Someone spent their time and implemented the very best tools you can imagine for the home roaster. It's totally worth the money and I'm usually skeptical. This app has refined my home roasting and helped take it to a whole new level.

Fantastic roasting App!. I have never paid more than a buck or two for an app but this one just looked too good and it has delivered big time. I have used paper logs to log all of my roasts up until now. Roastmaster has taken the place of my big 3 ring binder full of logs. No more digging through to see how that last fantastic Burundi was roasted. Just look it up and all the info is there!! With my Gene Cafe, repeating results is easier than ever!! I also love the inventory tracking. Actually, I love every aspect of this app. It was so worth the $$!! Awesome!!

Excellent App - Great Support. We use this app to manage our inventory, log our roasts, blends, cuppings, etc. The interface is clean and easy to use but the app is super powerful and has a ton of features under the hood. We’ve been manually logging which is easy and intuitive but we are in the process of updating to data logging via thermal probes and wifi. The app developer has been incredibly helpful in setting up our system. We are having a roaster custom built and he has communicated directly with the manufacturer about all the details to insure everything works perfectly. In addition, the developer is active on his site and responds to forum posts and emails quickly and in detail. The app continues to have new features added and just gets better and better. We researched a bunch of other options before deciding to base our entire system around this app and are very happy we did!

300th Roast with Roastmaster!. Tonight we roasted our 300th roast, it was some Kenya Safari Ridge. We have used this app since July 2010 and the software keeps improving time after time. We can't roast without it now since it tracks our inventory and every single roast detail we want. If you roast coffee for fun or semi pro you should have this app. Big Thanks to the developers, and great work!

Great App. I have been using RoastMaster for nearly two years and can't imagine roasting without it. Stat is transmitted to the app on my iPad via Bluetooth. The app provides consistency and milestones to help me roast the way I want. It also tracks inventory, cuppings, scores, ratings, etc. I have created curve templates so I can follow a precise roasting profile and modify it as desired. Very full featured and highly recommended.

Very Impressive!. I have a Behmor 1600 Plus and was looking for a better roast log than paper. I hopped on iTunes and found this app - wow is all I can say!! It was much more than I hoped for! If you are looking for an easy way to track nearly every variable, look no further. It is very well organized and looks great!

Beautiful graphics, right data, lousy interface. This app does what it supposed to do, help you log your home coffee roasting info and track/compare roasts. While the graphics are stunning, unfortunately they make usability a nightmare. I guess the video game-like look of the interface is supposed to make me feel like I'm using my Wii to roast beans. It's never really clear where you INPUT data, vs. where you RETRIEVE data. Even after going though the "Crash course" tutorial (the existence of such a tutorial alone for an iOS app should be a red flag) it was never really clear what each mode was for. Don't get me wrong, I think beautiful aesthetics go a long way to providing a pleasant experience. But they should enhance usability as much as make an appealing interface. If I wanted to play "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego" (for some reason that is the game that came to mind when I saw the graphics) I would buy the game. For $10, I expect an app to have a more focused interface. Right now it is a confusing mess. If all you want to do is log your roast, use iRoaster. It's $9 cheaper and marginally clearer to use. Joe

Creatively Designed and Functional. I've been home roasting for several years. After tracking everything by memory or notes pinned to the bulletin board, Rainfrog's Roastmaster is an absolute treat. Creating blends by percentage, tracking settings and results for each roast, and having the inventory automatically adjust with each roast are all time-savers, and worth the little bit you'll invest in this useful app. If you roast - get it!

Amazing roasting app!. I tried all the major roasting software apps/programs. I used Cropster and Artisan extensively and came back to Roastmaster. The scope is pretty much one of the best you can use and it has all the features you could possibly want! I just hope they push an update before apple makes it redundant.

Not worth the cost. This app has its usefulness, but it is not worth the $10 I paid. It has a very non-intuitive feel, and features seem to change with no warning or pattern. Sometimes I am able to compare a current roast profile with a historic one, but then that feature drops out mid-roast. For the cost, I expected much more.

Like the full suite of Office. Except for coffee! And like the full suite of Office, I only use about 5% of what’s offered! I log inventory, roast times (nose, eyes, ears mainly) but overall, a useful tool for a roaster business. If there were just one item I’d like added, it would be the development percentage added to the roast screen! My mental math, converting the mins/secs to hit 25-30% DT is just too much every roast! Since dev time is a percentage function, why not add it?!?

MonJava. Oh, Danny. The new baby is BEEOOTEEFULL! I can't wait to play with all the new toys and gadgets, and . . . Blahblahblah! Nice work again! John Just following up after a few weeks; this latest update is the bomb! A cut above the rest! From the delta projections, to the ability to follow saved profiles with absolute consistency, I can't give enough praise! Great app! All the new features in the active roast console are unbeatable. Best $$ I've spent in a long time!

Roastmaster. A great tool for roasting, inventory and history. After 180 roasts With this app I cant think of 1 thing I would change

Now a vital part of my roasting. The hardware portion was a little intimidating, but after installing Phidgets hardware and connecting it to my Diedrich IR-12 it just works. So all I do is use the software and haven't given the HW a second thought. As it should be. Profiling my roasts is automatic now. With the ability to zoom in I can see trouble coming and adjust if necessary. The delta curve tells me more information than just the temp curve. The ability to save roasts as profiles makes repeating a roast much easier. You can even cup and score your roasts in the app. All kinds of features are customizable- the delta curve size, how data is presented in the analyzer, when control points are recorded. I keep learning more about it as I dig deeper. The developer is responsive and genuinely interested in making the app work for all of us, home or biz roaster. The Dropbox integration is nice. I noticed if I pass a database back and forth via Dropbox it sometimes comes up as the old version. This maybe a Dropbox issue, quitting both Dropbox and RM and then sending the database over seems to get it right. My only gripe is that data entry could be simplified. Like sliders for cupping scores, data points that are numbers and such. This app is now an integral part of my roasting day. It's my living. The app has paid for itself and the hardware since day one. Thank you for making my life so much easier and my coffee so much better!

Overall good app. I’m new to roasting but I started using this app to document my progress and results. Quite satisfied with its capability. Since I’m using a Behmor 1600+ I don’t have an easy way to log bean temperatures but I can log the basic B reading for comparison purposes. Help files are full of great documentation. If I had a wish list it would be for two items - ability to store a low to medium resolution image with a roast, and the ability to make a blend from existing roasts.

Excellent for home coffee roasting. I recently upgraded from an air popper to Behmor 1600 Plus for home roasting. I wanted better logging than paper for repeat ability and tracking. This app fits the bill. I've logged a couple dozen roasts and am pleased with the results. The only woefully absent feature is database syncing via iCloud or Dropbox. I don't always have my primary iOS device on hand and would love the ability to log a quick roast using my iPhone. Overall, well recommended.

A Must for Any Roaster. This is a wonderful app that has doubled my toast quality and made made roasting coffee even more fun. It is very deep and very customizable. At the same time, it is easy to use even when your in the middle of an intense roast session. I roast with my grill and a drum so I have to manually enter my curves. It is very easy to do and that's not something most roast software devs have accomplished. I also love the variety of data you can enter which makes it perfect for those that take this science/art seriously. There are a few things I'd like to see improved. Mainly, the graph is a bit hard to read. Despite the customizability, it can get very cluttered and the dark background makes it hard to decipher. Here are a few other things in the roast section I personally feel could be better: - Easier to read graphs - Can change minimum temp of graph -- not just 0 - section for moister loss percentage - section for development percentage - section for preheat temp - ability to hide unwanted sections (like agtron or roaster voltage) - it should remember or save curve names and parameters when adding a curve - in the bean inventory, it shouldn't go into the negative numbers. Just 0. Otherwise, this is an amazing app that I'll continue to use as I develop my roasting skills. Great work!

Well worth it. Initially I was hesitant to buy the app because of the cost but after making the plunge it was well worth the money. For a home roaster this is your right hand man, logging roasts, a wealth of detailed inputs, logging raw beans, cupping scores, and compatibility with thermometers. There's so much this app provides that replaces a excel sheets and notebooks. If you check the company forum, their customer service (the creator of the app) communicates with you directly and helps you with whatever question you have. Overall, you won't be disappointed if you're tired of tracking your roasts manually!

Incredible improvement. Prior to the update over 800 roasts were logged in our cafe using this app. I was on the verge of abandoning roastmaster and had already installed both artisan and typica on an extra MacBook. The lack of a ROR curve was a primary factor. As a novice roaster I can use all of the data possible. Plotting the ROR post roast for analysis was tiresome and less helpful then a live read. This has been addressed. Along with a whole lot more! Expectations of the update were far exceeded. The roast analyzer is insanely rich with features that improve and enrich workflow. Building a profile pre roast is a welcome feature. I'm sure more will be discover as I continue to explore the new functions. For now the iPad/iPhone will continue to handle the bulk of work in the cafe, handling transactions, managing inventory, playing music, running acaia coffee scales and roasting. The one improvement could come from us, the user community. The unused forums at rainfrog could be an amazing place to share knowledge, collaborate and grow in our craft.

Roastmaster. Using this app with Bluetherm Duo and my Ipad while roasting on my Huky 500 makes roasting much more pleasurable. The only trouble is I went with this to avoid buying a laptop for use with another system. But, I found myself competing with my wife for the Ipad. So, I ended up buying another Ipad.

Wonderful App. Great app for recording your roasts. Never had a problem, and I roast at least once a week. Keep up the good work.

Retired. I fully agree that both the app and Danny are extremely helpful. It is really comprehensive in covering so many aspects of roasting coffee. But there is one feature that really brought me back after a year or so of using it, then a couple of years of not using it. It now generates, DURING A ROAST, a curve of any reading or setting that one wishes to time plot. In other words, at any desired moments, one can enter data that are read from any source, and the data will be graphed vs time. That is great for observing the progress of, for instance, beand mass temperature. (But you could also use it to generate a time plot of the outdoor temperature, if you so wished, though I haven't checked for the upper time limit on such a plot.) Some roasters spend a lot of time and money on fully automatic roaster control from their computer. This is for the simpler person like me who wishes to do things more manually, and get a nice 'feel' for things. It is also helps remind those like me who need to do certain manual things during a roast, but sometimes miss because of inattentiveness. I like it!

Fantastic!. Top notch software and invaluable to a home roaster. I think this would be my most missed app if an os upgrade ever broke it. Please keep up the great work on this.

Awesome!. Excellently useful and well-thought application to augment the fun and rewards of home-roasting! Worth the $10... which is saying a lot in the world of apps these days. Thank you!!

Very comprehensive roasting app w data logging. I home roast with a Hottop roaster which I have added 2, (K-type) thermocouple heat probes through the bean chute. I purchased the Thermoworks BlueTherm which my two probes plug into. The BlueTherm sends the temps via bluetooth to my iPad running Roastmaster to log the two temps as the roast it in progress. This works very well indeed. Also the myriad of features Roastmaster sports. Inventory, cuppings with time stamp, blending. But the roast in progress graph page is outstanding. You can watch delta rate of temp rise, time since first crack, temp projection markers for temps, you can scroll through pervious roasts which will underlie the current roast in progress for comparison. I also have fan and power settings I can add on the fly with a handy pop-up keypad. This keypad also works with no data logging for temps. Tops scores for me. Incredible connivence having my entire coffee world on the iPad. I roast almost every day.

Great app. 5 star app, plain and simple. My new favorite feature is 'Copy'. It has saved the day more than once already, and makes entering multiple batches a breeze. 500+ roasts and going strong!

Amazing. Been using this app for a month. I roast for myself, in my home. This app has helped me to become consistent, resulting in better coffee, with a less stressful roasting process. The one time I had a question that I could not find an answer to, my email was answered within hours. The depth of this app is stunning. It has been a useful tool with my ongoing journey to Coffee Nirvana.

If you roast- you NEED this ap! UPDATE!. I wrote the first review for this app when it was released, and just did my 303rd roast with it. The features just keep getting better! Keep up the good work! Here's my initial review, for grinds and grins! ☕️ I was sitting at home this morning meditating on the full city+ Sumatra I roasted last night thinking, you know, I should make an app that let's you keep track of your roasts, so you can duplicate the art you just created the day before. I, however am not the programming type, so I figured I should see if there was "an app for that". Indeed, there is! This program is a must for any serious roaster. The UI is polished, and shinier than the finish of a French Roast out of the oven. It let's you track what kind of beans you have, how you have roasted them in the past, cupping scores, and stuff I never thought about, in a simple to use way. Now I can stop using my iPhone timer to keep track of what I consider vital information. Keep up the good work! And thanks for nit releasing a half-baked app!

Essential. I started using Roastmaster as a hobbyist, and have continued with it as I transitioned into a small business owner/micro-roaster. And this app has performed exceptionally at every step of the way. The developer is a roaster himself, a coffee industry professional, and a talented app developer...and all-around great human! I can't say enough good things about the app and developer. Tip o' the hat!

Sublime. Roastmaster is a slick, well written app. Hats off to the developer. I've been eying this for weeks, and finally downloaded. I'm just beginning to utilize the power of this program. Looking forward to the updates!

Can do without it. Forget notecards. I started my coffee roasting journey using this app day 1. I don’t use all the features, but I’ve found the app easy to use, and when I’ve needed support (seldom) it’s been great. $10 is a lot for an App but it’s a no-brainer with this one.

Perfect app for home roasting / data geeks. Very very thoughtful application, and what great timing as I've just upgraded from hot air popper roaster to behmor 1600. Really, it is extremely well done and well deserving of $10. The commitment shown already will surely continue to use great features in the future. One thing Iight suggest is the ability to create blends by combining beans before the roast. It currently seems to work best for roasting individually and then combining afterward. Great job!

Update?. This app has the capability to be a great app for roasting if they update it. If you have a Behmor 1600 and only use single origins your good. I can only inventory my single origin beans, wouldn't let me list my blends that are from multiple origins. So far this is a waste of $10

Essential home roaster tool. Tool is very helpful in tracking my roasts and creating consistency in my output. I must also say that Danny has incredible to work with. Great developer and professional support! Have a cup of coffee and catch your breathe.

Complete and Beautiful. This app turned out to be everything that I've ever wanted/needed. I've kept a journal for years outlining all of my roasts and now it's completely obsolete. Funny how technology is slowly creeping into every corner of everyday life. Thank you for creating roastmaster. Best money I've spent on an app since I first got an iPhone three years ago!

Amazing. I use this app for all our data logging at my small roasting company! We have it set up for both our production and sample roasting and could not be more pleased. I highly recommend this app to everyone!

Must have app for roasters. When I started down the journey of coffee roasting, I was using traditional paper logs. But I'm an iOS person and I wanted an app to log my roasts. This app is perfect. I'm still digging in to all the customization and info that it can hold and, with every update, it just gets better and better.

Really great. If you roast coffee, you're cool. If you're cool you will love this app. I have been a Sweet Maria's junkie for a whole bunch of years now, this app is the second most important ingredient in my obsessive hobby. It's easy to jump right in and reap the benefits of this app right away. I'm on my third week now, and it still never ceases to amaze me. Very through, it has bean innovatory , the roaster variables are never ending, this is fully customizable for any set up. For me I track my roasts, rate the cups, know when it's time to order more, it really has become the digital center of my coffee roasting enterprise. Flat out the best money I have spent on my endeavor for perfect coffee. Thanks to the people behind it.

Very useful!. I have been using this for years and I love it. Any chance of an iwatch app coming for manual data logging?

Wow. Amazing

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Great app. This is simple to use but comprehensive application. Great for tracking beans and roasts worth it's weight in beans!

What’s with the update?. Was a great app, not too sure about this latest update though

eandacoffee. This is a fantastic app, I have been using it for 3 years. I started with a popcorn maker and then a behmor 1600 and now I use it on a 1.5 kg commercial roaster. It has everything you need from green bean inventory to post roast cupping data. I use it with the data logging option and phidgets hardware to track bean and exhaust temperature, also track air flow and flame settings in the easy to use analyser screen. As I get used to all the options, Danny releases an update with even more amazing features. Weather you are a home roaster or commercial roaster I would highly recommend this app as it has everything you will need to track and consistently repeat your roasts.

Awesome. What a great app. I love how it tracks my green beans, and how u can cup individual roasts! Much better than a spread sheet or note book. I highly recommend it. Des P.S. the only thing it's missing is a way to enter temps vs time, otherwise I would give it a 5!

Roastmaster for home coffee roasters. This is a great alternative to a large, disorganised pile of papers for recording your coffee roast details, roasting curves, bean detail and tasting notes. It is a "young" app, but already provides 100% of what you need and 90% of what you want with heaps of potential for future enhancements (automatic direct reading of temperatures during a roast with some form of interface?) Recording the progress of a roast is simple and easy. The results are stored in a relational db, all it needs is a little more in the way of examples for setting up roast profiles. Everything else I found to be intuitive. If you're a home roaster, this is a MUST HAVE!

Re-review. UPDATE: I wrote a negative review for this app about 9 months ago - gave it another go today and found help very useful. I persevered, testing the app about 10 times before I finally got it. I have now switched from my spreadsheet to Roastmaster! Well done developers, keep the improvements coming. Update2: tried 2 live roasts and it failed both times, had to revert to the trusty spreadsheet. Very disappointed and annoyed.

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I just wasted $11. Need a refund!!!. Very unfriendly. I couldn't get anything from this crappy app.

Solid and reliable. We’ve roasted nearly 8000 batches using this app. It rocks.

Great app that covers all the bases. Covers the whole journey from green bean inventory, through roasting, blending, brewing, tasting. Great attention to detail, yet lets you track the basics or the minutia. Best of class, get it and get busy roasting...

Excellent !. I was not to keen on spending 10$ at first, but after using the app, I can confirm that it's well worth the price, especially since it's a Universal app. Every feature is well thought and the whole interface is very polished. Furthermore, the developer responded to my questions in a very quick manner and took the time to explain things in a very detailed way. It's nice to see people passionate about their products. Highly recommended for anyone who likes coffee !

Always one step ahead. The latest updates are great! The app is designed by a roaster for roasters and it shows.

Nicely done. This app has nearly everything that I was looking for and overall, it is very nicely put together! There are a couple things I would like to see added: the ability to take photos of your roast and store it with the profile (I noticed this is mentioned on the website - is it on the way?); also the ability in import and export roast curves would be useful (as csv or other text format). Also regarding the curves, I was looking for a way to be able to view several curves superimposed on one plot and I couldn't figure out how to do it. I am not sure if this feature is available and I just can't find it, but in any case this is a feature I would like to see implemented (or implemented in a more intuitive way). But overall, very good. Thanks!

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Love this app. Great app. Great customer service in response to questions and suggestons. Cannot wait until this comes out as an ipad app.