Beer Lab vs Brew Day Toolbox
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
Brew Day Toolbox
This app provides comprehensive tools for brewing beer, including calculators for ABV, recipe scaling, and priming sugar. It also features a beer scorer to help improve brews and a timer to manage the brewing process. Keep track of your brewing to-do list and manage ingredients efficiently.
- Brewing calculators (ABV, recipe scaling, priming sugar)
- Beer scoring system
- Brewing to-do list management
- Brewing timer
- Ingredient management
- Mash monitoring
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Brew Day Toolbox gives you all the tools you need to brew great beer. This comprehensive app not only provides you with all the calculators but also has a great beer scorer so you can keep on improving your beers. With this app, you'll be able to keep on top of your brewing to-do list to ensure that you don't miss out on an essential step in the brewing process. The app also has a timer to help you ensure that everything goes to plan. The toolbox also contains many calculators including: * ABV calculator * Recipe scaling Calculator * Priming Sugar Calculator * Alternate hops * Gravity and Volume Calculator * SRM Beer Colour * Mash Monitor * Scale wort volume for target gravity * Calculate your mash efficiency * Ingredients management, ensure you are always ready for a brew day. * and more
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Brew Day Toolbox at 100% against Beer Lab's 50%. Brew Day Toolbox also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 9 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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, Brew Day Toolbox every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beer Lab | Brew Day Toolbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 4 months — 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 | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tim Harrison | Daniel Amos |
Customer experience
Beer Lab
Brew Day Toolbox
In-app purchases
Beer Lab
No in-app purchases
Brew Day Toolbox
No in-app purchases
