Comparison

Brewguide vs Beanly Coffee Guide

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

Head to head
About

Brewguide

This app helps you set up and personalize your Acaia Pearl S coffee scale. You can also browse, create, and share coffee recipes, and transfer them directly to your scale for guided brewing.

Highlights
  • Scale setup guide
  • Personalize scale messages
  • Browse official recipes
  • Create and share recipes
  • Transfer recipes to scale
  • Guided brewing mode
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Brewguide is the companion App for the Acaia Pearl S Welcome to your new scale! The Acaia Pearl S pairs with all of our apps but this is the one to use to set up the scale. If you don’t have a Pearl S, you can still browse and create recipes. In Brewguide, you can: * Walk through a setup guide to adjust settings like turning on/off modes, changing the weight unit, adjusting the auto-off timer, turning on/off the button sound, and changing the temperature unit. * Personalize your Pearl S with your own loading message * Browse official recipes or create and share your own with a QR code or link * Easily transfer a recipe to your Pearl S - the scale holds one recipe at a time To enter Brewguide mode, where you view the loaded recipe’s prompted steps, hold the Tare button until you see “Brewguide” on the scale.

About

Beanly Coffee Guide

Scan coffee bags to discover how well they match your personal taste preferences. Save and rate coffees to build a profile that helps you find new favorites. This guide is for anyone who enjoys coffee but doesn't want to be a coffee expert.

Highlights
  • Scan coffee bags for taste match
  • Build personal taste profile
  • Save and rate coffees
  • Discover personalized recommendations
  • Track roast, sweetness, acidity, and more
  • Create coffee wishlists
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Coffee labels tell you about the coffee. Beanly tells you if it’s for you. Scan a coffee bag and see how well it matches your personal taste. Save the coffees you try, rate what you drink, and let Beanly learn what you like so finding your next bag gets easier over time. You don’t need to know coffee. You just need to know what you like. YOUR PERSONAL COFFEE GUIDE Beanly builds a taste profile from the coffees you actually drink. As you scan, save, and rate bags, Beanly learns the patterns behind your preferences and uses them to help you discover coffees you’re more likely to enjoy. See a bag at the store? Scan it to get your Beanly Match and understand how its roast, sweetness, acidity, body, bitterness, and tasting notes compare with your taste. REMEMBER. LEARN. DISCOVER. • Scan any coffee bag to identify the coffee and learn what’s inside. Add a photo of the back for even more detail. • See your Beanly Match to understand how well a coffee fits the taste profile you’ve built. • Learn what you like across sweetness, acidity, body, bitterness, roast, tasting notes, and more. • Build your Shelf with every coffee you try, along with your ratings and private notes. • Save coffees to your Wishlist when something looks worth trying later. • Revisit Past Scans so the bags you discover don’t disappear the moment you leave the store. • Find New coffees with personalized recommendations across different roasters. • Refine your taste profile as you rate coffees and tell Beanly what it got right or wrong. • Back up your Beanly with an optional verified email so your Shelf, Wishlist, scans, photos, notes, and taste profile stay with you. WHY I BUILT BEANLY I liked good coffee, but I didn’t really understand coffee. I knew light roast from dark roast, but when I finished a bag I loved, I rarely knew how to find another one like it. I took pictures of bags and kept notes on my phone. Coffee subscriptions would ask whether I wanted light, medium, or dark roast, but they never really learned why I liked one coffee and not another. So I built the coffee guide I wanted. A place to remember every bag I’ve tried, understand my own taste, discover what to drink next, and scan a coffee in the store to see whether I might actually like it. Beanly is made for people finding their way in coffee, not just coffee experts. www.beanly.app/terms www.beanly.app/privacy

Screenshots

Brewguide4 screens
Beanly Coffee Guide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Beanly Coffee Guide at 100% against Brewguide's 46%. Beanly Coffee Guide also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Brewguide's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (14 vs 4). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Beanly Coffee Guide sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Brewguide asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Beanly Coffee Guide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Brewguide's written reviews are positive against 100% of Beanly Coffee Guide's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brewguide ships an update monthly, Beanly Coffee Guide weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Brewguide versus Beanly Coffee Guide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrewguideBeanly Coffee Guide
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.1 (14 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews46.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14 — better4
Update frequencyMonthlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB26 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperacaiaTEXTMYLINK LLC

Customer experience

Brewguide

All ratings14 ratings
Positive42.9%
Neutral21.4%
Negative35.7%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive46.4%
Neutral21.4%
Negative32.1%

Beanly Coffee Guide

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Brewguide

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Beanly Coffee Guide

One-time3
  • 20 Beans$1.99
  • 75 Beans$4.99
  • 200 Beans$9.99

Questions

Is Brewguide free?
Brewguide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beanly Coffee Guide free?
Beanly Coffee Guide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Brewguide or Beanly Coffee Guide?
Beanly Coffee Guide is rated higher. Brewguide averages 3.1 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Beanly Coffee Guide averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Brewguide or Beanly Coffee Guide have ads?
Neither Brewguide nor Beanly Coffee Guide shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brewguide or Beanly Coffee Guide?
Brewguide ships an update monthly, and Beanly Coffee Guide weekly. Most recently, Brewguide was updated on October 11, 2026 and Beanly Coffee Guide on September 17, 2026.

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