Roastpic Inc. | Roastpic Premium
Coffee professionals care deeply about size, color, and defects in their coffee, but measuring them is expensive and laborious. The Roastpic app is simple to use: you put your beans (green or roasted) on a Photosheet, take a photo, then look at your data. Download a free Photosheet today to try.
Roastpic is a technology company composed entirely of students and professors, spun off from the Coffee Center at the University of California Davis. As scientists, we perform a lot of measurements of the size, color, and defect counts in coffee, which means we are intimately familiar with how laborious and expensive current methods are for quantifying these important metrics. In 2022, two Q-certified computer science students who are deeply passionate about coffee joined the Coffee Center and started a project to use cell phones and computer vision to get high-quality data about coffee.
The result is Roastpic: an app explicitly designed to give the coffee industry hard data about coffee at a fraction of the cost of current methods. Anybody with a modern cell phone can try Roastpic for free. You simply download and print a free PDF of the Roastpic Photosheet, put your beans on it, and take a photo to instantly get the size distribution of your coffee beans. The free Photosheet only gives size, because every printer is different and the lighting in every image is slightly different. If you want high-quality data on color, roast score, or defect counts, then you can upgrade to a Premium subscription to receive a precision-calibrated, high-resolution Roastpic Photosheet. The Premium subscription is designed to be highly affordable, with our beta test currently set at $29/month. For large-scale industrial coffee roasters, Roastpic is also proud to partner with Fabscale to offer Roastpic Professional. Targeted for release later in 2024, Roastpic Professional by Fabscale embeds the core Roastpic technology in Fabscale’s world-class software to provide seamless data integration to understand, optimize, and control the data of entire roasting plants. The students and faculty at the UC Davis Coffee Center are very excited to offer their vision of low-cost, high-quality data on coffee to the specialty coffee community.
