Beer Lab vs Beerchamp
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
Beerchamp
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Beerchamp is designed to help you organise beer competitions and events, taking out the boring admin and making judging fun and fair for everyone, organisers and participants. Beerchamp enables you to create events, choose the beer styles that can be entered and if event is to be scored by judges or people’s choice. Score each beer in any order and compare totals all in one place. Quick links to style guide to help with the correct tasting notes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Beerchamp at every 2 months against Beer Lab's every 9 months. Beer Lab's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). 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, Beerchamp every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beer Lab | Beerchamp |
|---|---|---|
| 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, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tim Harrison | GhostFrog Technologies |
In-app purchases
Beer Lab
No in-app purchases
Beerchamp
No in-app purchases
