
BeanBench
Specialty Coffee Journal
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What's New in BeanBench
1.3
August 17, 2026
SCAN A BAG - Photograph a coffee bag and BeanBench reads the label on your device: roaster, origin, process, variety, roast date, and tasting notes prefill the form for you to review. Photos never leave your phone. - Or import from an AI assistant: copy a prompt, run it with your bag photos in the assistant you already use, and paste the reply back. ICLOUD SYNC - Keep coffees, brews, check-ins, and settings in step across your devices through your private iCloud account. We never see your data. - New installs are offered sync during setup and it starts right away, with no restart. Existing users get a one-time offer in the app. - Settings shows live sync status: when the last sync finished and, if something went wrong, what and why. COFFEE PASSPORT - Countries and flavor families stamp themselves from what you log, so you can see where your taste is heading. RATE WITH PRECISION - Drag across the stars for quarter-star steps. Taps work exactly as before. BACKUP AND RESTORE - Export everything, photos included, to a single file, and restore it on a new phone. ALSO IN THIS UPDATE - BeanBench House V60 recipes built in, plus Fellow Stagg [XF] and a custom option for brewers that aren't listed. - Drawdown time prefills, with a live cue in the guided timer. - Buy Again keeps the price, bag size, and roaster notes from the original bag. - Analytics and Settings moved into a single More tab. - Ask AI: copy a paste-ready summary of any brew, coffee, or check-in. - Fixes: a freeze when opening Personalized Recommendations, quarter and half stars drawing under-filled, share cards missing the brew photo and washing out in light mode, an empty notes card on rated brews, saving a guided brew leaving you stranded on the recipe picker, a duplicate curated coffee shop, and resting reminders.
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