TheBeanGeek vs Bean‑Base
Comparison of Features, Pricing and User Experience
TheBeanGeek vs Bean‑Base
TheBeanGeek and Bean‑Base both help people find coffees, one leans into personal discovery and community, the other into detailed data filtering.
Target Audience
Who uses them?
TheBeanGeek attracts home brewers and curious coffee lovers who want to explore beans, track their brews, and see what others think. Roasters benefit by getting feedback from users. Bean‑Base is built for anyone needing quick data: casual drinkers hunting a new flavor, café owners comparing beans, or buyers seeking specs like price and elevation.
TheBeanGeek offers a rich catalog you can filter by roast level, origin, process, variety, taste notes, roastery country, and shipping options. It even includes a quiz to start your taste profile. Bean‑Base is a web-based “spreadsheet”, offering sortable/filterable data by country, roast, process, price, elevation, and more in real-time. No login, no community features.
Discovery & Filters
How do people search beans?
Personalization
Is it tailored to you?
TheBeanGeek builds your taste profile based on your ratings and brews to suggest coffees you might enjoy. Bean‑Base doesn’t personalize. You filter beans manually every time, and it doesn’t remember what you did before.
On TheBeanGeek, you rate coffees, add tasting notes, and browse other users’ reviews. That feedback also shows up on roaster pages. Bean‑Base has no logging or reviews — it’s all about displaying data, not interactions.
Logging & Community
Can you save and share your thoughts?
UI & Accessibility
How do people use it?
TheBeanGeek works in any browser on desktop or mobile. It’s built around coffee cards, images, filters, and community notes. New coffees are added daily. Bean‑Base uses a clean spreadsheet-style interface in your browser, it refreshes around twice a week.
TheBeanGeek is fully live (2025), actively updated, and backed by community and SCA membership. Bean‑Base launched in March 2024. It’s free to use, and steadily growing its database.
Platform Maturity
Are they ready to use?
Bottom line
If you want data-first comparisons like price, process, variety - Bean‑Base is hands-down the go-to. If you’re looking to rate, share, and get suggestions based on your taste - with filters to boot - TheBeanGeek offers a richer, more personal experience.
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