# CoffeeLog: Brew Journal — Your personal coffee journal > Your personal coffee journal (iPhone/iPad app by Pawel Michalak.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/coffeelog-brew-journal/id6777030477 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Pawel Michalak](https://appshunter.io/developer/6777030479) - Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.5 · 113 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-06-10 - Data updated: 2026-10-05 ## What is CoffeeLog? CoffeeLog is a personal journal for everyone who wants to remember the coffees they drink and understand what they actually enjoy. YOUR COFFEE COLLECTION Every bag you try goes into your collection — roaster, origin, region, process, varietal, altitude, roast level, flavor notes and more. Over time your collection becomes a record of your taste: the origins you return to, the processes that click with you, the roasters worth following. LOG EVERY BREW Pair each coffee with your brew notes. Record the method, recipe, water temperature, grind size and your personal rating. When you find a combination that works, it's there to repeat. When something falls flat, you'll know why. EFFORTLESS TO ADD Point your camera at a coffee bag label and CoffeeLog reads it for you — filling in the details automatically so you can spend less time typing and more time drinking. Review, confirm, and it's in your collection. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your journal lives on your device. No account to create, no subscription, no data sent anywhere. If you want to access your collection on another Apple device, optional iCloud sync moves everything through your own iCloud account — nobody else sees it. • Personal coffee collection with full bag details • Brew sessions with recipe, method and rating • Scan bag labels to add coffees without typing • Rate and add tasting notes to track what you enjoy • Insights into your taste over time • Optional iCloud sync — your data, your account • No account, no subscription, no ads ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4 — 2026-09-30 A Fresh New Look The bottom navigation has been redesigned. It's slimmer and sits lower, and your content now rests on a rounded sheet above it, giving every screen more room for your coffees and brews. New Achievements Four new achievements join your Taste Analytics page: Curator for the roasters you've tried, Sommelier for the flavor notes you've tasted, Cartographer for the regions you've explored, and Homecoming for a coffee roasted in a country it was grown in. They count your existing journal, so some may already be unlocked. Richer Flavor Wheel 33 new tasting notes that roasters often use but the SCA wheel leaves out, like Guava, Kiwi, Plum, Passion Fruit, Macadamia and Rum. They're searchable in every supported language and recognized when you scan a label. Count by Month, Year or All Time Tap the coffee count on your Taste Analytics page to switch between this month, this year and all time. Plus bug fixes and stability improvements. ### 1.3 — 2026-08-26 Rebuilt Scoring Scoring is now aligned with the SCA's Coffee Value Assessment. The brew form gains an Affective Impressions section — Fragrance, Aroma, Flavor, Aftertaste, Acidity, Sweetness and Mouthfeel — and your overall enjoyment is calculated from the impressions you set, the way an affective score is. Overall enjoyment and your taste profile are also fully independent now, so rating one no longer changes the other. Taste analytics were reworked to match, and a new "What You Love" insight contrasts your highest-rated brews with your average. Interactive Origin Map Your Taste Analytics page now has a map of everywhere your coffees come from. Tap a country to zoom into its regions, or open the map full screen to explore. The map travels with the app, so it works without a connection. Your favorite coffees live on that same card — the top four by score, and the top five in whatever part of the world the full-screen map is showing. Favorite Roasters A new card ranks the roasters you log most often, with your average score for each. It appears once you have logged coffees from more than five roasters. Sharper Label Scanning The scan screen now highlights the text it recognizes as you frame the bag, so you can see what CoffeeLog is reading before you shoot. Capture is cropped to the on-screen bracket guide, so the scanner gets the label and nothing around it, and you can tap the captured photo to enlarge it before you continue or retake. Plus smaller refinements across the journal, brew sorting, and iCloud sync, along with bug fixes and stability improvements. ### 1.2 — 2026-07-21 Blend Coffee Support You can now log blend coffees with more than one origin country, each with its own region. Coffee details, your journal, and the world map all show every origin in a blend — not just the first one — and your taste analytics count each origin separately. Smarter Label Scanning We rebuilt how CoffeeLog reads coffee bag labels behind the scenes, making scans noticeably more reliable. Roaster names are recognized far more accurately, region fills in automatically in more cases, and scanning now holds up better across a wider range of label designs and languages. Bug fixes and stability improvements. ### 1.1 — 2026-06-23 iCloud Backup Protection When reinstalling the app, CoffeeLog now detects your existing iCloud backup and asks whether you'd like to restore your journal or start fresh — so your data is always safe, even across reinstalls. Improved Brew Analytics Taste scoring now correctly handles coffees with multiple varieties. If you log single-origin bags with more than one cultivar listed on the label, your scores and analytics will reflect each variety accurately. Bug fixes and stability improvements. ### 1.0 — 2026-06-10 No release notes. ## Apps similar to CoffeeLog | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Coffee Roasting Log & Curve](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/coffee-roasting-log-and-curve/id6771499184) | — | Free | Food & Drink | | [1518 Coffee](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/1518-coffee/id6778573759) | — | Free | Food & Drink | | [Home Cafe: Coffee Recipes](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/home-cafe-coffee-recipes/id6768713594) | — | Free | Food & Drink | | [Bean AI: Coffee Bag Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/bean-ai-coffee-bag-tracker/id6760227144) | 5.0 (1) | Free | Food & Drink | | [BrewPilot: Coffee Ratio Timer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/brewpilot-coffee-ratio-timer/id6762191183) | — | Free | Food & Drink | | [Roast Master: Coffee Journal](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/roast-master-coffee-journal/id6767210357) | — | Free | Food & Drink | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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