Beer Lab vs Fermentis
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beer Lab
Design and create your own craft beers at home. This app provides tools to adjust ingredients, predict beer characteristics like color and strength, and scale recipes. It also offers step-by-step brewing instructions and helpful calculations for brew day.
- Design beers with templates
- Adjust ingredients and predict beer characteristics
- Scale recipes by ABV, volume, and bitterness
- Step-by-step brew day instructions
- Hydrometer and priming sugar calculations
- Unit conversion (Metric/Freedom)
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Beer Lab helps you make craft beer at home • Design beers using templates and then save them in your library • Add, remove and tweak quantities of ingredients with immediate predictions of colour, strength (ABV) and bitterness (IBUs) • Scale recipes by adjusting strength (ABV), litres produced and bitterness (IBUs) • Make brew day super simple with step by step instructions for the brew in a bag process • Quickly work out how strong your beer will be, adjust hydrometer readings for temperature or work out how much priming sugar to use • Switch between Metric and Freedom units for easy recipe conversions • Send your recipe to your Grainfather
Fermentis
Explore the world of fermentation with this app. Discover a wide range of fermentation solutions and products. Stay updated on the latest news and launches, and utilize fermentation tools to select the ideal yeast for your projects.
- Discover fermentation solutions
- Find products easily
- Latest news and launches
- Fermentation tools
- Choose the right yeast
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The tasty world of Fermentation is now a click away. Discover our whole range of fermentation solutions. Find our products easily wherever you are. Be aware of our latest news and launches. Enter our fermentation tools to choose the right yeast for your creations. And many more features… Download the Fermentis app. and enter the world of yeasts and fermentation solutions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Beer Lab at 4.0 against Fermentis's 2.1. Beer Lab also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 16%). Fermentis's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 9 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Beer Lab holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 14 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Beer Lab's written reviews are positive against 16% of Fermentis's.
Beer Lab ships an update every 9 months, Fermentis every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beer Lab | Fermentis |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) — better | 2.1 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 15.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 14 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tim Harrison | SOCIETE INDUSTRIELLE LESAFFRE |
Customer experience
Beer Lab
Fermentis
In-app purchases
Beer Lab
No in-app purchases
Fermentis
No in-app purchases
