Comparison

Beer Lab vs Brew Logic

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

Brew Logic

Features
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Brew better beer with Brew Logic — the all-in-one homebrewing companion built for your garage, basement, or anywhere you brew. No internet required. REAL-TIME RECIPE BUILDER Design recipes from scratch and watch your stats update instantly. Original Gravity, Final Gravity, ABV%, IBU, and SRM are calculated live as you add and adjust ingredients. Match your recipe against 150+ official BJCP 2021 style guidelines with visual gauges that show exactly where you stand. MASSIVE INGREDIENT DATABASE Access 150+ fermentables, 30+ hop varieties with alpha acid ranges and aroma profiles, and dozens of yeast strains with attenuation and temperature data — all available offline and fully searchable. 8 QUICK CALCULATORS Skip the spreadsheet. Get instant answers for the brew-day math that matters: • ABV & Attenuation — advanced alcohol and calorie estimates • IBU Estimator — Tinseth, Rager, or Garetz formulas • SRM Color — visual color preview from your grain bill • Priming & Kegging — sugar amounts for bottling or CO2 PSI for kegging • Yeast Pitch & Starter — cell counts, pitch rates, and starter sizing • Water Adjustment — match ion profiles like Burton-on-Trent or Pilsen • Strike Temperature — nail your mash temp every time • Efficiency & Volume — plan for brewhouse efficiency and system losses INTERACTIVE BREW DAY GUIDE Step-by-step checklists walk you through mash to pitch. Track your gravity readings, correct hydrometer samples for temperature, set timers, and attach notes or photos to each batch. Flip on Theater Mode for a hands-free, big-type brew day view you can read from across the kettle — no more squinting at your phone with wet gloves. WATER LAB Dial in your water chemistry with precision. Enter your source water ions, calculate exact salt additions (Gypsum, Epsom, and more), and monitor your SO4:Cl ratio to balance malt and hop character. BREW COACH Smart recipe guidance that reads your recipe and flags issues before brew day. Brew Coach spots off-style bitterness, gravity that misses your target range, and pitch-rate shortfalls — so you fix problems in the app, not in the fermenter. SHARE & CELEBRATE Turn any recipe into a beautiful shareable recipe card. Watch your beer come to life with live visualizations — a filling pint glass, your grain bill breakdown, and the hop bittering curve. Your brewer journal tracks every batch, unlocks achievements, and wraps it all up in a personal year-in-review. BUILT FOR BREWERS • 100% offline — works without Wi-Fi • Imperial and Metric units • Export recipes as professional PDF sheets, shopping lists, or CSV batch logs • Dark mode optimized for bright-sun brewing • Large, tap-friendly controls designed for sticky hands Free to download, with a 3-day free Brew Logic Pro trial. No ads. Works 100% offline. Just great beer. TERMS & CONDITIONS Privacy Policy: https://brewcalc.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Beer Lab4 screens
Brew Logic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beer Lab at none against Brew Logic's 4. Beer Lab also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). Brew Logic's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 9 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Brew Logic sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Beer Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Beer Lab ships an update every 9 months, Brew Logic every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Beer Lab versus Brew Logic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeer LabBrew Logic
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (8 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings8 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB51 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperTim HarrisonInnovius

In-app purchases

None

Beer Lab

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Brew Logic

Subscriptions3
  • BrewCalc Pro3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Brew Logic Pro Annual Special$14.991 Year
  • Brew Logic Pro$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Brew Logic Pro Lifetime$69.99

Questions

Is Beer Lab free?
Beer Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brew Logic free?
Brew Logic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Beer Lab or Brew Logic have ads?
Neither Beer Lab nor Brew Logic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Beer Lab or Brew Logic?
Beer Lab ships an update every 9 months, and Brew Logic every 10 days. Most recently, Beer Lab was updated on October 24, 2026 and Brew Logic on October 28, 2026.

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