Bean Beast vs Bean Juice
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bean Beast
Record and organize your favorite coffee recipes, including brew parameters and equipment used. Track your coffee beans and roasters, and recall your ratings for specific beans to remember your preferences.
- Recipe tracking with brew parameters
- Equipment specification for recipes
- Bean and roaster organization
- Bean rating history
- Support for all brew methods
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Bean Beast helps you create amazing coffee by allowing you to keep track of the recipes, ratings, and beans you like best. Compatible with all coffee brew methods: espresso, pour-over, aeropress, french press, and more. App Features: - Recipes -- Add your favorite coffee recipes and keep track of all the brew parameters. (Grind, dose, temperature, etc) - Equipment -- Have multiple grinders or espresso machines? No problem; you can specify which one you used for each recipe. - Beans & Roasters -- Add your various beans and roasters to keep everything nice and organized, and see recipes for a specific bean. - Bean Ratings -- Do you ever struggle to remember exactly what you thought of a specific bean that you *know* you've had before? Fret not; you can just look at your previous rating for it :) Bean Beast is under active development and I'm working to polish and add more features. To see my development roadmap, you can visit http://beanbeast.com/roadmap Enjoy! Zach
Bean Juice
Calculate your ideal coffee brewing ratios and explore different brew methods. Customize cup sizes and experiment to discover your perfect coffee.
- Coffee recipe calculation
- Customizable cup sizes
- Multiple brew methods supported
- Ratio experimentation
- Aeropress, Chemex, French Press, V60 support
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Bean Juice is a simple app for calculating your coffee recipes for you. Pick your preferred cup size in the settings and play with ratios and brew methods to find your perfect cup of coffee. Bean Juice currently supports Aeropress, Chemex, French Press and the V60, but we are working on adding more.
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Verdict
Bean Beast and Bean Juice both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 88% of Bean Beast's written reviews are positive against 67% of Bean Juice's. Bean Beast also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Bean Beast against 4.6 for Bean Juice. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 14 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Bean Beast's written reviews are positive against 67% of Bean Juice's.
Bean Beast ships an update weekly, Bean Juice monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bean Beast | Bean Juice |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (18 ratings) — better | 4.6 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Swinehart | Nifty Tree Studios |
Customer experience
Bean Beast
Bean Juice
In-app purchases
Bean Beast
No in-app purchases
Bean Juice
No in-app purchases
