# BeanBase - Coffee Database — Building a private database

> Building a private database (iPhone/iPad app by 超 李.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beanbase-coffee-database/id6744645371 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [超 李](https://appshunter.io/developer/1806984284)
- Category: Food & Drink, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 18.0 · 43 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese
- Released: 2025-05-29
- Data updated: 2026-06-22
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beanbase-coffee-database/id6744645371/reviews.md

## What is BeanBase?

BeanBase is an app thoughtfully designed for coffee lovers like you. It’s more than just a logging tool—it’s your intelligent companion for exploring, learning, and enjoying the world of coffee.

Core Features:
- Comprehensive Logging: Easily record every detail of your coffee beans—from origin, elevation, and variety to roaster, roast level, and processing method.
- Precision Brewing Tracker: Keep track of your brewing sessions in detail, including equipment used, grind size, water temperature, brew time, final rating, and tasting notes.
- Personalized Flavor Library: Capture the subtle flavors and textures of coffee to build your own tasting archive.
- Data Visualization: Discover hidden patterns with intuitive charts that analyze your brewing data, bean preferences, and origin distribution.
- Intelligent Identification: Simply take a picture of the coffee packaging and AI will automatically extract detailed information such as bean variety, origin, processing method, etc., making recording easy and fun. You no longer have to manually enter tedious coffee information.
- Elegant Browsing: Enjoy your coffee bean collection like a gallery with a unique carousel view that showcases key details and photos at a glance.
- Highly Customizable: Beyond recording, you can also manage your own origins, varieties, processing methods, roasters, and more—creating a database that truly reflects your coffee world.

Whether you’re just stepping into the world of specialty coffee or you’re a seasoned enthusiast, BeanBase helps you systematically manage your coffee knowledge, enhance your tasting skills, and document every step of your coffee journey.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| One-time Unlock | $12.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 0.4.0 — 2026-06-20

- Added custom coffee bean resting periods with direct day entry, a detail-page countdown, and roast reminder notifications
- Added a consolidated tab bar menu for adding coffee beans, recognizing packaging, recording pour-over and espresso brews, and logging purchases

### 0.2.1 — 2026-05-26

Add: Full-page image sharing for brew details with an animated capture preview
Change: Replaced the coffee bean drinking heatmap with sortable ratings and expandable history
Change: Redesigned coffee statistics with clearer percentage breakdowns and adaptive trend charts
Change: Redesigned brew tasting ratings as a labeled hexagonal flavor profile
Change: Replaced brew process charts with a localized step-by-step table
Change: Streamlined coffee bean editing with compact pickers, managed varieties, and safer dependent selections

### 0.2.0 — 2026-05-18

Change: Added subtle water-bend motion to launch screen floating icons
Change: Updated empty states with illustrated placeholders for the homepage records and coffee bean carousel
Change: Refined coffee image recognition with staged cards, animated progress indicators, and workflow-based timing

### 0.1.12 — 2026-05-11

Changed: Refined filter tag pill styling for consistent light and dark mode contrast.
Fixed: week start and chart type settings so picker changes update the settings view and notify dependent charts.

### 0.1.9 — 2025-07-22

- Fix: Various bugs

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-22.*