Bean Beast vs Good Espresso
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
Good Espresso
Log your daily espresso shots with detailed notes and photos. Track variables like beans, brew ratio, and extraction time to perfect your home barista skills. Discover new recipes and improve your technique.
- Log espresso shots
- Track brewing variables
- Save favorite recipes
- Add notes and photos
- Discover user recipes
- Log coffee shop drinks
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Good Espresso is for anyone who wants to make delicious espresso at home. Every day when you make your espresso, you can log everything about your shot, from the beans to all the nerdiest variables like brew ratio. Take notes and photos, track your progress, and dial in your technique until your favorite coffee shop is the one in your own kitchen. - Log every shot in your journal - Favorite recipes and quickly log them again every time you make that drink - Track every variable like a pro barista: beans, grind, dose weight, yield weight, brew ratio, pressure, pre-infusion time, extraction time - Upload both shot and final drink photos - Make notes on your method and what to try next time to improve - Discover shots and recipes from other users and find new things to try - New! Log drinks from your favorite coffee shop.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bean Beast at 4.7 against Good Espresso's 4.1. Bean Beast also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.4). On price, review sentiment, 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.
Bean Beast holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Bean Beast's written reviews are positive against 83% of Good Espresso's.
Bean Beast ships an update weekly, Good Espresso monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bean Beast | Good Espresso |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (18 ratings) — better | 4.1 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.2% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zachary Swinehart | Joshua Johnson |
Customer experience
Bean Beast
Good Espresso
In-app purchases
Bean Beast
No in-app purchases
Good Espresso
No in-app purchases







