IKAWA Home vs Beanconqueror
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
IKAWA Home
This app enhances the home coffee roasting experience by allowing users to manage and monitor roasts from their smartphone. Explore curated green beans, discover recommended recipes, and customize roast settings for personalized coffee.
- Manage and monitor roasts
- Explore curated green beans
- Discover recommended roast recipes
- Customize roast degree and development time
- Store and manage green coffees and recipes
- Dynamic recipe dashboard with flavour profiles
- Quick roast set-up
Read full descriptionHide full description
THE IKAWA HOME ROASTING SYSTEM The IKAWA Home app forms an integral part of the roasting system by IKAWA Home and is designed only to be used with the IKAWA Home Roaster, our award winning and easy to use home coffee roasting machine. TAKE YOUR COFFEE TO THE NEXT LEVEL The IKAWA Home App serves as a companion to your coffee roasting journey on the IKAWA Home Roaster, allowing you to manage and monitor your roasts, all from the palm of your hands! THE BEST COFFEE YOU'VE EVER PREPARED IKAWA's curated selection of green beans is sourced for the very highest flavour potential and comes with a range of roast controls to explore via the app - including recommended roasts. With you in control, it could be the best coffee you’ve ever made. TAP, TAP, GO SIMPLE! Roasting on the IKAWA Home Roaster has become an even more enjoyable and rewarding process with the latest update to the app. The new recipe dashboard and controls allow for a quick roast set-up based on your preferences, and it only takes about 10 minutes to roast! YOUR UNIQUE COFFEE COLLECTION Store, manage, and engage with your green coffees and roast recipes easily from your library - all backed up in the cloud. Get started with IKAWA's curated range of green beans and recommended recipes. DYNAMIC RECIPE DASHBOARD IKAWA Home roast recipes inform, empower, and close the gap between roasting inputs and the flavours in your cup. For IKAWA's beans, the app dynamically displays expected flavour characteristics and roast stage timestamps. INTUITIVE ROAST CONTROLS The Home App includes two controls when creating recipes for IKAWA green beans: Roast Degree and Development Time. Explore up to 30 different roasting combinations per coffee to create and achieve your favourite roasts. INCREDIBLE COFFEE OUT OF THE BOX Sample the high-quality green beans from around the world included when you purchase the IKAWA Home Roasting System. Scan the QR code on each coffee pack in the App to unlock a wealth of information about your chosen beans and start exploring our recommended recipes and controls. Your Coffee Roasting Journey Starts Here. Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Beanconqueror
This app helps coffee enthusiasts of all levels optimize their brewing process and manage their coffee beans. It supports various preparation methods, allows detailed tracking of beans and roasts, and offers advanced features like water recipe customization and flow profiling.
- Brew optimization for multiple methods
- Detailed coffee bean tracking
- Roast tracking and management
- Customizable water recipes
- Flow and pressure profiling
- Bluetooth scale integration
- Caffeine tracking to Apple Health
Read full descriptionHide full description
Beanconqueror - The Ultimate Coffee Companion You’re a coffee afficiando, and so am I! Beanconqueror is the product of our shared love of the drink in our cups and in our hearts. Whether you're just starting out, or are an experienced barista, Beanconqueror will help you get the most out of your coffee. Optimize your brews: Beanconqueror offers a wide range of preparation methods, including V60, Aeropress, Espresso, Orea v3, Mokkamaster and more. Each comes setup ready to go, or you can customize your preparation methods with just the parameters you want to use. This way, you can get your perfect brew every time. Keep track of your beans: Beanconqueror makes it easy to keep track of all your beans. You can easily scan or import detailed information of roasted coffee from your favourite roasters, or even from your own roasting setup. It’ll even keep track of your running total of beans so you know when you’re running low. Track your roasts: Add all the details for your green beans, roast them in batches tracking the variables you need to to maintain consistency, and automatically transfer your finished roasts to use for brewing. Dedicated water section: Beanconqueror also has a dedicated water section where you can add your custom waters to be used in the brew section. Save all the key information for your water recipes, such as general hardness, sodium, calcium, magnesium, and more. Flexibility and Convenience: Beanconqueror is available for both iPhone and iPad. It also supports several languages, including English, German, Spanish, Chinese, and Turkish, and more will be added in the future. Beanconqueror is also Open Source and free to use. Flow & Pressure Profiling: Beanconqueror is compatible with a range of bluetooth scales and pressure profile devices, including Decent Scale, Acaia Scales, Felicita Scales, Hiroia Jimmy, Eureka Precisa, Skale2, Smart Espresso Profiler, and Pressensor. It can even produce graphs to track your brew live and help you repeat your favourite brews more easily. Track your caffeine consume into Apple Health and have a look there. Whether you're looking to track your coffee journey, optimise your brews, or simply keep track of your coffee beans, Beanconqueror has everything you need to perfect your brew from green to cup.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Beanconqueror at 94% against IKAWA Home's 14%. Beanconqueror also leads on rating (4.9 vs 1.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). IKAWA Home's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads 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. IKAWA Home sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month. Beanconqueror asks for nothing beyond the download.
Beanconqueror holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 1.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 39 and 139 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 14% of IKAWA Home's written reviews are positive against 94% of Beanconqueror's.
IKAWA Home ships an update every 3 months, Beanconqueror monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | IKAWA Home | Beanconqueror |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (39 ratings) | 4.9 (139 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 14.3% of reviews | 94.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 39 | 139 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 141 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | IKAWA ltd. | Lars Saalbach |
Customer experience
IKAWA Home
Beanconqueror
Bugs and requests
IKAWA Home
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Beanconqueror
Reported bugs
8 issues- Scale connectivity issues with iOS devices
- App crashes when trying to add a picture
- Brew time selection menu not appearing
- Some brews not visible in brew list
- App crashes when trying to add a picture on iPhone 13 Pro
Show 3 moreShow fewer
- Timer stops when app is left in background
- Bug with brew time selection menu
- Some brews not visible in brew list
Requested features
30 requests- iCloud sync/cross-device sync
- Dark mode
- Apple Watch app
- More graphical/pictorial summary of stats
- Ability to create tags for filtering
Show 25 moreShow fewer
- Recipe log/tab
- User accounts
- Cloud syncing
- Different formatting options for dates and times
- Add a field for specifying recipe (e.g., Hoffman V60)
- Add a timer with push notifications for cold brew
- Add a field for processing method (Washed, Natural, Honey)
- Add a field for farm, more location info, elevation
- Add a field for pressure reached during brew
- Add a field for grinder retention
- Ability to change date/time of a brew
- Option to indicate bean storage
- Parameter for frozen beans
- Record weight and start/finish time of each pour
- Record time of bloom pour
- More icons for brew methods
- Ability to log coffee at cafes/brewed by others
- Fields in Brew for amount of water used and time recognizing minutes/seconds
- Community approach: publish and rate recipes
- Focus/category for recipes
- Photos included in backup/export
- Add a field for coffee that ends up in the trash (e.g., purging grinder)
- Prompt for dial-in based on sour/bitter
- Ability to define a recipe for a certain bean type once optimum settings are found
- Add Wendougee Lita
In-app purchases
IKAWA Home
- IKAWA Home Plus Monthly$5.991 Month
Beanconqueror
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is IKAWA Home free?
Is Beanconqueror free?
Which has better reviews, IKAWA Home or Beanconqueror?
Do IKAWA Home or Beanconqueror have ads?
Which is updated more often, IKAWA Home or Beanconqueror?
Other comparisons















