The best Roastguide alternative for better coffee.
Roastguide is a big coffee catalog with a social layer. Filtru is a brewing companion: guided timers, fourteen scale brands, live graphs, espresso tools, and an on-device scanner.
Available for iPhone and iPad. Free to download.
Roastguide, on the App Store
First, some honesty.
Roastguide's 40,000-roast catalog and roaster-following are impressive for discovery, and it logs brews with notes.
But there are no guided brew timers, no scale support, no graphs, no espresso tools, it's iPhone-only in English, and its single GB rating arrived slowly since 2020. Filtru is built for the brewing half, and it's had ten years of it.
Filtru vs Roastguide,
feature by feature.
Based on each app’s public App Store listing and documentation, as of July 2026.
| Feature | Roastguide |
 Filtru
★ Recommended
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|---|---|---|
| Guided step-by-step brew timers | No. Guides are articles, not timers | Yes. Guided timers for 15 methods |
| Coffee discovery | Yes. 40,000+ roast catalog | Partial. Roaster pages + bag scanning |
| Community & shared recipes | Partial. Social follows; no recipe library | Yes. Community recipes on every brew method |
| Bluetooth scale support | No. Not advertised | Yes. 14 brands with live weight + flow rate |
| Live brew graphs (weight + flow) | No. Not advertised | Yes. Weight + flow-rate brew print per cup |
| Espresso tools | No. Not advertised | Yes. Dial-in, shot recording, TDS + extraction |
| Coffee journal | Yes. Brew logging + streaks | Yes. Tasting notes with customisable bag styles |
| Bag scanning | Yes. Photo scanning for details | Yes. AbolBuna, on-device, 50,000+ bags |
| iPad support | No. iPhone only | Yes. iPhone & iPad |
| Languages | Partial. English only | Yes. 14 languages |
| Track record | Partial. 1 GB rating · est. 2020 | Yes. 4.8★ from 11,914 ratings · est. 2016 |
“Great for casual or power users.”— App Store review of Filtru
Why people switch from Roastguide to Filtru.
From catalog to cup.
Roastguide helps you find and log coffee. Filtru brews it: fifteen guided methods with timers that keep pace, and a journal that captures the recipe and the graph.
Your gear is invited.
Fourteen Bluetooth scale brands, live weight and flow, espresso dial-in with TDS. Roastguide advertises none of it.
Private, on-device scanning.
AbolBuna reads any bag entirely on your iPhone, trained on over 50,000 specialty coffee bags, straight into your journal.
What you get when you switch.
Guided brewing for fifteen methods
AeroPress, V60, Chemex, French press, espresso, siphon, and more. Each has a baseline recipe and a guided timer that keeps pace with you. See every brew method →
Works with serious coffee scales
Acaia, Timemore, Felicita, Decent, BooKoo and more. Live weight and flow-rate feedback with automatic pairing. See supported scales →
Accessibility is a feature, not a checkbox
Filtru works properly with VoiceOver, including live spoken readouts of your scale's measurements while you brew, as often or as rarely as you like. And you can switch the whole app to fonts like OpenDyslexic, Lexend, or Atkinson Hyperlegible.
The answer is YES
Switching from Roastguide? These all have the same answer:
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Can I log my brews in Filtru? Yes
Yes. Filtru's journal records every brew with its recipe, graph, and tasting notes.
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Can I scan coffee bags in Filtru? Yes
Yes. Filtru's AbolBuna scanner runs entirely on your device, trained on over 50,000 specialty coffee bags.
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Can I follow a step-by-step brew timer in Filtru? Yes
Yes. Filtru includes guided, step-by-step timers for fifteen brew methods.
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Does Filtru work with VoiceOver? Yes
Yes. Filtru is fully usable with VoiceOver, including live spoken readouts of Bluetooth scale measurements, and offers dyslexia-friendly fonts like OpenDyslexic, Lexend, and Atkinson Hyperlegible.
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Is Filtru free to try? Yes
Yes. Filtru is a free download for iPhone and iPad, with guided brewing included; PRO is an optional upgrade.
Filtru is free to download and works with the gear you already own. No subscription needed to start brewing.
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Roastguide is a trademark of its respective owner; Filtru isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by it. Feature and pricing information comes from public listings and documentation as of July 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell me and I’ll fix it.