Beer Lab vs DraftBuddy
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
DraftBuddy
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Easily calculate the correct pressure you need for your beer draft system.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: DraftBuddy at every 2 months against Beer Lab's every 9 months. On price, ads, 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.
Beer Lab ships an update every 9 months, DraftBuddy every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beer Lab | DraftBuddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tim Harrison | Oliver Oeste |
In-app purchases
Beer Lab
No in-app purchases
DraftBuddy
No in-app purchases
