Bean Juice vs Kava
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Kava
Craft and refine your go-to pour-over coffee recipes with this intuitive application. It features a built-in timer to ensure consistent brewing for every cup.
- Create and edit pour-over recipes
- Built-in brewing timer
- Consistent brew guidance
- Recipe customization
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• Easily create and tweak your favorite pour-over recipes • Use built-in timer for consistent brews
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Kava at 100% against Bean Juice's 67%. Kava also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Kava holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Bean Juice's written reviews are positive against 100% of Kava's.
Bean Juice ships an update monthly, Kava every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 2, 2026.
| Parameter | Bean Juice | Kava |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (14 ratings) | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nifty Tree Studios | Andriy Gordiyenko |
Customer experience
Bean Juice
Kava
In-app purchases
Bean Juice
No in-app purchases
Kava
No in-app purchases
