# Next Cup — Brew journal & coffee timer > Brew journal & coffee timer (iPhone/iPad app by Harrison Fischberg.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/next-cup/id6826759188 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Harrison Fischberg](https://appshunter.io/developer/6825091479) - Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 27.0 · 23 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-11-05 - Data updated: 2026-11-13 ## What is Next Cup? Next Cup is a coffee brew journal for people who brew with a scale and a kettle and want tomorrow's cup to be better than today's. BREW WITH A TIMER THAT KNOWS THE RECIPE Pick a brewer and a style, set how much coffee you want with simple − / + steppers (hold one for a dial), and the dose and water follow the recipe's ratio. The timer walks you through each pour and wait, with chimes, an optional soundtrack that keeps playing when you leave the app, and the current step on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. THIRTEEN WAYS TO BREW Cone and flat-bed drippers, switchable immersion, press pot and inverted press, espresso, iced pour over, cold brew, moka pot, AeroPress, Chemex, drip machine and Nespresso, each with its own styles and starting recipes. A JOURNAL THAT LEARNS YOUR TASTE Save each brew with its dose, water, grind, temperature, time, taste and a photo. Tell Next Cup how the cup tasted, and it suggests one change for next time, built from the recipe and your recent brews of the same coffee. A suggestion only changes your recipe when you tap to use it. Ask AI for Next Cup turns a past brew and your similar brews into an improved recipe, pinned at the top of the Brew tab. YOUR BEANS, ORGANIZED Keep each bag with its roaster, origin, process, roast date and flavor notes. Scan the bag's barcode or QR code, or take a photo, to fill in the details, then say how you want it to taste and get three ways to brew it on your brewers. See how much is left, and find coffee roasters near you on the map. RECIPES YOU CAN CHANGE Change a recipe's steps before you brew, delete the ones you no longer use, or describe a cup and let Create with AI write the recipe, with a grind to start from on your grinder. AI THAT STAYS OPTIONAL With no key, AI features use Apple's on-device model where it is available, and nothing leaves your iPhone. You can add your own OpenAI or Anthropic key instead; Next Cup shows what each action sends before the first request and sends nothing until you tap, or until you save a brew you tasted or rated, which writes your Next Cup recipe (you can turn that off in Settings). PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no analytics and no server of ours. Your journal stays on your iPhone, with daily backups on the phone, export to CSV or JSON, and one place to delete everything. Make it yours with several looks, light and dark. ## Is Next Cup safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Next Cup. ## Is Next Cup legit? Next Cup appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Next Cup is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.4.1 — 2026-11-11 This update fixes bugs. - Restoring a backup no longer adds duplicate beans or recipe steps. - A timer you left running is no longer picked up by the next day's brew. - Accepting "one step finer" keeps the grind setting you wrote. - The taste reminder is cancelled once you taste or delete the brew. - The step number on the Lock Screen matches the timer screen. ### 1.4 — 2026-11-10 - Your recipe on every journal card: each brew shows the recipe it was made with. Long-press to favorite that recipe, or save it again if you deleted it. - Favorites: star recipes and brews from the long-press menu, and a star marks them. - A guided AI flow for new beans reads the front and back of the bag, then suggests ways to brew it. Save the recipes you want to try. - AI recipes now fit the size of your brewer, so they never overfill it. - Send Debug Logs: if something goes wrong, open Settings, say what happened, and Next Cup starts an email to support with the details needed to fix it. You see the whole email and send it yourself. ### 1.2 — 2026-11-08 - Brew advice for your beans: after you scan a bag, tell Next Cup how you want it to taste (chocolatey and full-bodied, bright and fruity, or your own words), or just ask for its picks. You get three ranked ways to brew it on your brewers, each with grind, ratio, temperature and time, and Start brew opens the one you choose with the bean already picked. Find it again under the sparkles on any bean. - Better bag reading with Apple's on-device model: the coffee's name and roaster come out right far more often. - A saved OpenAI or Anthropic key now takes over every AI feature as soon as you add it. ### 1.1 — 2026-11-06 - Ask AI for Next Cup: turn a past brew into an improved recipe, pinned at the top of the Brew tab. It reads your similar brews, and can write your Next Cup each time you save a tasted brew (turn that off in Settings > AI). - Create with AI: describe the cup you want and get a full recipe, with a suggested grind for your grinder. Improve with AI rewrites a recipe's steps for your note. - Change steps on Start brew, and delete your own recipes from the Brew tab. - − / + steppers for grind, amount and dose. Hold one for a fine dial. - Scan the QR code on a coffee bag to fill in the bean. - Brew music keeps playing when you leave the app, at a gentler volume. - Every look is now in Settings > Appearance. ### 1.0 — 2026-11-05 No release notes. ## More apps by Harrison Fischberg - [Sunglasses at Night](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sunglasses-at-night/id6825091477) - [Internet Binder](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/internet-binder/id6825188819) - [Scout AI Browser Assistant](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scout-ai-browser-assistant/id6826015732) All apps by Harrison Fischberg: https://appshunter.io/developer/6825091479 ## Related topics [mamenote](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/mamenote) --- *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 2026-11-13.*