Crema – Espresso Journal

Version 1.8 The biggest Crema update yet: a new home for your daily shot, smarter dial-in help, widgets, Apple Watch, and much more. Brew and History — Brew tab: the bean you're brewing, one tap to pull a shot, your last shot, the coach's next step, and maintenance that's due. — History tab: every shot across all your beans. Filter by bean, grinder, rating, or date; swipe to log again or delete. — Log again: repeat a shot's recipe in one tap, then change only what was different. — The brew timer shows your target and time left, asks before discarding a shot, and follows your text size. Space bar starts and stops it on a Mac or iPad keyboard. Smarter guidance — Starting point for new bags: Crema suggests a first dose, ratio, time, and grind from your best shots on similar beans. — The dial-in coach can now suggest ratio, pre-infusion, dose for your basket, puck prep, or temperature, not just grind, and uses your sour-to-bitter rating. — Dial-in path: see a bag's shots as a path toward your sweet spot. — New Insights: freshness curve and best rest window per roaster, cost per shot, and weekly consistency. Every claim says how many shots it's based on. Record more of every shot — Recipe details: pre-infusion, basket, puck prep, drink type, and water, carried over to your next shot. — Taste scales from sour to bitter and thin to heavy. — Bean details: origin, process, varietal, producer, price, and opened date, with cost per shot. — Freezer tracking pauses a bag's days off roast. Mark finished bags to tuck them away. — Grinder zero point keeps old grind settings comparable after re-zeroing or a burr swap. Widgets, Siri, and Apple Watch — Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, a Live Activity for the brew timer, and a Pull a shot control (iOS 18+). — New Siri commands, like "Repeat my last shot in Crema". — Apple Watch: run the timer with haptic checkpoints, set the yield with the Digital Crown, and rate the shot. Watch-face complications show days off roast and maintenance. — Haptic pacing: a tap every 5 seconds so you can time a shot by feel. Switching, sharing, and backups — Coming from another espresso app? Import a supported export file from Settings. — Share any shot's recipe as a link or QR code. — Full backup with photos in one file. CSV export for spreadsheets is still there. Setup and more — Quick setup: tap your grinder and machine, add your bag or a sample, or set up later. — Presets for popular grinders and machines fill in settings for you. — Sync status in Settings shows whether iCloud sync is working, and turning sync off now fully stops it. — More of Crema is translated into every language it supports, and every chart works with VoiceOver and Audio Graphs. — An optional tip jar in Settings. Every feature stays free. Fixes — Burr-wear tracking stays accurate when you delete a bean, rename a grinder, or log from the timer or Siri. — Aging reminders no longer disappear after editing a bean or arrive for deleted beans. — Doses, yields, and grind settings like 18.5 g are no longer rounded down. — Fixed Compare crashing when two bags share a name.