# BeerSmith Mobile Home Brewing

> Mobile homebrewing software for designing, editing, and brewing beer recipes. (iPhone/iPad app by BeerSmith LLC.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beersmith-mobile-home-brewing/id640670118 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [BeerSmith LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/566379732)
- Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
- Price: $4.99
- Rating: 3.10/5 from 32 App Store ratings · 159 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 11.0 · 29 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2013-05-06
- Data updated: 2026-08-29
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beersmith-mobile-home-brewing/id640670118/reviews.md

## What is BeerSmith Mobile Home Brewing?

Do you want to create great beer recipes on the go?  BeerSmith 3, the world's top selling home brewing software, comes to iPhone/iPad.  BeerSmith Mobile gives you all the tools to design, edit and brew your best beer from your phone or tablet.  BeerSmith mobile is tightly integrated with our recipe cloud service and desktop BeerSmith program making it easy to create recipes from your desktop computer or phone and share them transparently.  Save a recipe on your desktop cloud folder and open it on your phone.  In addition our BeerSmithRecipes search function puts thousands of new recipes at your fingertips.  An integrated brew day timer with step by step instructions, brewing calculators and tools for converting units rounds out this great app!

The ultimate app for BeerSmith users - create a recipe at your desktop cloud folder, walk our the door and edit the recipe from your phone or tablet!

Features:
- BJCP 2015 Beer Style Guide included, plus mead, wine, cider guide
- Ability to fully edit recipe and brew session data
- Editing of ingredients including hops, grains, misc, water, and yeast
- Full edit of profiles including equipment, mash profiles, aging and carbonation
- Functions to scale a recipe by equipment, alter color, original gravity or bitterness
- Ability to save profiles or ingredients from an existing recipe to your phone database
- Search, view and select from thousands of recipes on BeerSmithRecipes.com
- Brewday timer for steep, mash and boil with notifications and alarms
- Ability to store recipes you find locally or to your cloud account
- Full integration with the desktop version of BeerSmith via your cloud folder
- Any recipe you move to your desktop cloud folder can be used in the app!
- Full beer style guide in app for reference
- Seven calculators including: hydrometer adjust, infusions, alcohol/attenuation, mash adjust, weight/volume, refractometer and carbonation
- Five unit converters: temperature, gravity, weight, volume, pressure

What's New:
Version 3 of BeerSmith adds:
- Support for mead, wine and cider recipes (as well as beer)
- Local and cloud based recipe folders for managing your recipes
- Water profile and mash pH tools integrated with the recipe for beer brewing
- Updated ingredients, profiles and style databases including hundreds of new ingredients

Build 3.0.10 Adds: 
- Added new provisional BJCP beers styles to style guide
- Corrected issues with adding juices to some recipes
- Corrected wrong units on some fields in session page
- Corrected issues with some recipes being downloaded from cloud correctly
- Corrected issue with brewday timer not displaying correctly on some recipes
- Corrected issue with not being able to edit yeast tolerance for yeast items

## Key features

- Recipe design and editing
- Thousands of searchable recipes
- Integrated brew day timer
- Brewing calculators and unit converters
- BJCP style guides (beer, mead, wine, cider)
- Cloud synchronization with desktop version

## Chart rankings

- #46 in Top Paid · Food & Drink (US App Store)

## What do users think of BeerSmith Mobile Home Brewing?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 👍 Intuitive recipe creation and design
- 🧪 Comprehensive brewing calculations and tools
- ☁️ Cloud sync functionality for multi-device access
- ⏱️ Helpful brew day timer feature
- 📚 Extensive database of grains, hops, and yeast
- 💰 Affordable price point for functionality
- 🔧 Useful water chemistry and mash calculations
- 📱 Works well on iPad/larger screens
- 🎯 Great for recipe development away from desktop

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezing issues
- 🔌 Poor synchronization with desktop version
- 📤 Limited export and sharing capabilities
- 🎨 Outdated and clunky user interface
- 💾 Data loss and recipe disappearance problems
- 📋 Missing advanced features from desktop version
- 🔍 Difficult to find specific ingredients
- ⚙️ Complex setup process for new users
- 📱 Poor performance on iPhone (too small)
- 🔄 Inconsistent cloud sync functionality

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes when opening tools (back-sweetening, sugar selection)
- JavaScript errors preventing access to brew day timers
- Save and back button malfunctions
- Unable to save or edit recipes
- Sliders and controls not responding
- Data loss on app updates
- Recipes disappearing when navigating folders
- Timer not audible unless app is open and unlocked
- Mash volume calculations incorrect
- Decimal separator (comma) not working in metric mode
- Yeast selection window showing JavaScript errors
- indexfull.html errors when adding fermentables
- Settings page navigation stuck
- iOS 9 compatibility issues with button functionality
- Slow button response times
- Recipe shells remaining after ingredient deletion

**Most requested features**

- Inventory tracking system
- Water chemistry profile builder integration
- Brew batch logging and fermentation tracking
- Calendar/alerts for fermentation stages
- Recipe export functionality
- Print recipe capability
- Shopping list feature
- Yeast starter calculator tool
- Support for negative values in calculators
- Add-on installation like desktop version
- Equipment profile synchronization from desktop
- Ability to drag and reorder ingredients
- BJCP style updates
- Floating hydrometer/Tilt integration
- iOS native design (swipe gestures, landscape mode)
- Automatic sync across all devices
- Recipe scaling functionality
- Batch notes and tasting log

## Recent user reviews (10 of 159)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/beersmith-mobile-home-brewing/id640670118/reviews.md

### 3/5 — Ok addition to Desktop, but not great

*2026-05-31, version 3.1.09*

This is a worthy app, and helps me run my brew day. It syncs my recipe from my Beersmith cloud account so I can make late changes and track the session. It falls short because it doesn’t sync my inventory, which with the recent release of Beersmith 4 on desktop, is completely in the cloud with all of it’s customizations. So sadly I still cannot design or modify recipes from my inventory on my mobile device, which what I really want to do. I’ve been campaigning for this functionality for a decade. Hopefully Beersmith 4 Mobile is around the corner.

### 4/5 — Printing

*2025-06-14*

I think it’s missing the printing option

### 1/5 — on the fence

*2025-02-28, version 3.1.09*

Compared to the PC app and the web version unfortunately the smart phone app is lacking. I don’t really like it to feel of it. Kind of sucks not to mention with the smart phone versus the Web app. It’s hard to import your ingredients that you have via your PC version I even tried using this just to hash out a recipe but again without only in all my ingredients that I have on hand, it is hard to really design something if it has the option to import from your PC your ingredients equipment it would be much better by the cloud option is available again is limited to see the lease and it isn’t as good as working strictly within your PC version. i’m fine. It’s just easier to write out a potential recipe on paper and go from there.
also, there’s no way of tracking your brew that you currently have going via a tilt or other floating hydrometer via a Wi-Fi connection if that option was available in this app, it would definitely be a plus

### 2/5 — Crashes constantly.

*2023-11-04, version 3.1.09*

The reason I wanted this app was to use it to calculate many of the various things that are needed for during the brewing process. Anyways, lately it seems this crashes every time one of the tools is opened… ie when opening the back-sweetening too, and trying to select a new sugar from the list. Honestly this basically makes the app useless which is a bummer because it is a paid app etc.

### 1/5 — It should be removed from the App Store

*2023-10-11*

Complete absurd more than two years without update with a bug that closes the app when it tries for example to change the way hops are added and in various other forms of editing in a recipe. You have to remove it, you can't use it. I want my money back.

### 3/5 — BJCP 2021

*2023-10-02*

When it will be possible? There is new styles and many beers have been changed the style

### 4/5 — Great App for new Brewers

*2023-06-05, version 3.1.09*

I’ve been using this app now for a couple of months and have made some amazing beer with it. It’s pretty intuitive and easy to work with. Use it in tandem with internet website subscription, only improvement I would suggest is to integrate the water chemistry profile builder capability into the app and prove a “VOLS” tab. Cheers!

### 1/5 — 支持的语言太少了！

*2023-05-27*

什么时候能够支持中文？

### 3/5 — User interface

*2023-04-16, version 3.1.09*

I’m getting used to saving everything before i close. Also, can’t find specific fermentable ingredients that you can on Brewer’s Friend.

### 1/5 — Terrible

*2023-01-09, version 3.1.09*

Always glitchy and doesn’t even work correctly. Tried to add new recipe as soon as I downloaded it and it won’t save or let me edit it. One would think that after this long developing this software you’d get it right. This doesn’t.  Pass on it.

## Frequently asked questions about BeerSmith Mobile Home Brewing

### What does BeerSmith Mobile Home Brewing do?

This app provides comprehensive tools for homebrewers to design, edit, and manage beer recipes on their mobile devices. It includes features for ingredient editing, profile management, recipe scaling, and a brew day timer with instructions.

### What are the key features of this brewing app?

Key features include the ability to fully edit recipe and brew session data, edit ingredients and profiles, scale recipes, access thousands of recipes from BeerSmithRecipes.com, and use an integrated brew day timer with notifications. It also includes seven brewing calculators and five unit converters.

### How much does BeerSmith Mobile Home Brewing cost?

Based on the provided information, this application is a paid app. There are no mentions of in-app purchases or advertisements, suggesting a one-time purchase for full functionality.

### What devices is BeerSmith Mobile Home Brewing compatible with?

The app is available for iPhone and iPad, indicating compatibility with iOS devices. It is also tightly integrated with the desktop BeerSmith program, allowing for seamless recipe sharing and management across platforms.

### Can I create recipes for drinks other than beer?

Yes, in addition to beer recipes, the app supports mead, wine, and cider recipes. The BJCP 2015 Beer Style Guide is included, along with guides for these other beverages, offering a versatile tool for various home fermentation projects.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 3.1.09 — 2020-10-11

- Corrected problem with brewday timer where ingredients could be shown out of order
- Corrected issue with using comma as decimal point when entering numeric fields in Europe/other countries
- Moved to SQL based database (3.1.8 and higher)
- Popup menus and revised menu system (3.1.8 and higher) for improved navigation.

### 3.1.08 — 2020-09-30

- Entire file system moved to a SQL based database for improved data security and speed
 - Improved 3.1 features including support for "sparge" hops and alternate pH adjustment models
 - Recipes and other items now go straight to edit
 - Popup header and menus added for ease of navigation
 - Significant number of new tools
 - Large collection of bug fixes

### 3.0.10 — 2019-03-12

- Added new provisional BJCP beers styles to style guide
- Corrected issues with adding juices to some recipes
- Corrected wrong units on some fields in session page
- Corrected issues with some recipes being downloaded from cloud correctly
- Corrected issue with brewday timer not displaying correctly on some recipes
- Corrected issue with not being able to edit yeast tolerance for yeast items

### 3.0.7 — 2018-09-09

Build 3.0.7 Adds: 
- New functions under Options to reset local ingredients and profiles 
- Corrects bugs in Move and Copy recipe functions that were causing data loss issues 
- Recovery function to recover unindexed local recipes and rebuild index 
- Correction to bug that could cause crash when editing session data 
- Corrected units for juices - previously amounts were not recorded correctly 
- Corrected problem with grain use field not being recorded properly when editing a recipe
- Support for full screen mode on iPhone X

### 3.0.5 — 2018-08-07

Version 3 of BeerSmith adds:
- Support for mead, wine and cider recipes (as well as beer)
- Local and cloud based recipe folders for managing your recipes
- Water profile and mash pH tools integrated with the recipe for beer brewing
- Updated ingredients, profiles and style databases including hundreds of new ingredients

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