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How we read against what you already run.
Written to be fair enough that you could send one to the company it describes — including the rows where they win, and the questions where the answer is to stay put.
Artisan
RoastConsole Pilot is a free Mac app for live roasting and imports your Artisan history. An honest comparison, including where Artisan wins.
RoasterTools
RoasterTools handles wholesale orders and the books but never touches the roaster. Here the batch you dropped is the same record that prices the bag and bills the customer.
Cropster
Cropster goes deeper at the roaster than we do. We cover more of the roastery around it — maintenance, expenses, CRM and a marketplace are in our base plan.
Flexnet
Flexnet runs the commercial side of a roastery and publishes no roasting features. We cover both: the curve at the machine and the record from green to invoice.
Firescope
Firescope is a capable roast profiler, and Cropster acquired it in October 2025. Here is what that means for a roastery choosing one today, and what else exists.