Brew Tracker vs Keep Close
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brew Tracker
This app helps home brewers track all essential details of their beer-making process, from start to finish. Record brew dates, ingredients, fermentation, bottling, and tasting notes. It includes an ABV calculator and calendar integration for a comprehensive brewing log.
- Track brew start dates and details
- Record fermentation and aging periods
- Log bottling and sample tasting notes
- Archive brews with ratings and reviews
- Calculate ABV percentage
- Save brew dates to calendar
- Export brew data to CSV
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Improve your home brew beer with Brew Tracker. Simple, free and easy to use. Made for tracking all the important information about your home brew beer. If your like me and can barely remember which day you put your last home brew on, let alone the ingredients that were used. Well Brew Tracker is for you. Simply fill in information on each of your brewing days. Then success or failure you will all ways have all the key information on hand. Whether you're a meticulous home brewer looking to record every detail of your home brews or a casual home brewer looking to record merely your brew dates. Brew Tracker enables you to record as much or as little brew info as you please. For each of your home brewing days the following fields are available: Start Brew: Fields: Number, Name, Start Date, Type, Size, Recipe, Brewer Comments/Notes. Days brew has spent fermenting. Bottle Brew: Fields: Bottle Date, Bottle Count, Brewer Comments/Notes. Days brew has spent aging in bottles or kegs. Sample Brew: Fields: Sample Notes, Ready Status. Record your thoughts on your home brew beer as you drink it. Review Brew: Fields: Rating, Review Archive brews by giving them a rating and review. Additional Features: ABV% Calculator: Calculate the alcohol content (ABV - Alcohol by volume) for each of your home brews. Calendar: Save brew dates to your calendar. Second Ferment: Save second ferment date, any additives and comments. As this is an optional step in the home brewing process by default it is not enabled, but if you would like to see this step available simply enable it in settings. Back up: Export your brew list into a CSV file. In case you need to move devices take your brews with you. A home brewing app made by a home brewer for people who like to keep it simple.
Keep Close
Explore a curated selection of urns designed to honor individuality and preserve cherished memories. Visualize urns in 3D using augmented reality or against your own photos. Browse the full catalog and save favorites to your personal collection.
- View urns in 3D with ARKit
- Visualize urns on personal photos
- Browse comprehensive urn catalog
- Add favorite urns to collection
- Detailed urn dimensions and information
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The items in this app have been carefully selected with you in mind, to enable you to select with ease a final resting place for your loved one that closely reflects their individuality; to help you keep your memories close. We hope you can find something special in this app that you can turn to when you need to - something that you can look to or hold onto - and remember. The urns shown are available in a variety of sizes. Please consult the information on each collection, found under the name for more details. The dimensions of each of these can be found here also.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Brew Tracker at 88% against Keep Close's 0%. Brew Tracker also leads on ratings volume (45 vs 1). Keep Close's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Keep Close holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brew Tracker has 45 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Brew Tracker's written reviews are positive against 0% of Keep Close's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Brew Tracker ships an update every 2 months, Keep Close every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on August 31, 2026 and July 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brew Tracker | Keep Close |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (45 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 45 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Callum Hill | Throwr Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Brew Tracker
Keep Close
In-app purchases
Brew Tracker
No in-app purchases
Keep Close
No in-app purchases
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