BeerCrafter vs HopNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BeerCrafter
This app serves as a comprehensive guide for home brewers, offering detailed information on beer styles, brewing techniques, and over 50 popular beer recipes. It also includes a brewer's diary feature that can be synced across Apple devices.
- Detailed beer style information
- Brewing theory and methods
- Over 50 popular beer recipes
- Brewer's diary
- iCloud sync across Apple devices
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The Beer Crafter app is created as a home brewer's assistant. Here you will find detailed information about beer styles, brewing theory, methods of its preparation, as well as more than 50 recipes for popular beers. You can also keep a brewer's diary and sync it with other Apple devices using iCloud.
HopNote
This app serves as a digital notebook for homebrewers, allowing them to meticulously log beer recipes, track brewing processes, and perform essential calculations. It helps manage mash rests, hop additions, gravity readings, and yeast information, while automatically calculating ABV, IBU, and color.
- Recipe logging
- Brew log
- ABV, IBU, and color calculations
- Mash rest tracking
- Hop and gravity logging
- Offline core functionality
- BeerXML import/export
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HopNote is a notebook for home brewing: beer recipes, a brew log and calculations right at the kettle. Keep the whole brew in one place: mash rests, hops, gravity, yeast and timers. The recipe is always at hand. ABV, IBU and color — no spreadsheets and no manual math. Data stays on your iPhone. No account. The core log works offline. ABV, IBU and EBC/SRM are included. Pro adds calculators for hydrometer and refractometer, carbonation, water, priming, dilution and yeast. Import and export recipes as BeerXML. Not a tasting diary. Not brewery software. A notebook with a calculator that takes the brew from recipe to finished beer. support@hopnote.app https://hopnote.app
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Verdict
BeerCrafter and HopNote are too close to call on the numbers: across 7 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. BeerCrafter sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and HopNote sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BeerCrafter ships an update every 2 months, HopNote monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BeerCrafter | HopNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Vladimir Kostin | Ihar Mironenka |
Customer experience
BeerCrafter
HopNote
In-app purchases
BeerCrafter
- Small Donation$0.99
- Medium Donation$1.99
- Large Donation$4.99
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- Royal Donation$9.99
- Divine Donation$99.99
HopNote
- Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
- Lifetime$24.99
