Comparison

Aeromatic vs Coffee Journal

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

Head to head
About

Aeromatic

Discover and brew coffee with your AeroPress using over 60 curated recipes. Features step-by-step guides, a built-in timer, and video tutorials. Track your coffee beans, rate them, and create your own recipes.

Highlights
  • 60+ curated AeroPress recipes
  • Step-by-step brewing instructions
  • Built-in stopwatch and timer
  • Video brew walkthroughs
  • Add notes and create custom recipes
  • Track and rate coffee beans
Features
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Aeromatic is the ultimate assistant app for brewing coffee with your AeroPress. It provides 60+ curated recipes from baristas, roasters, and championship winners. Brewing becomes easy with step-by-step instructions, a built-in stopwatch, and video walkthroughs. You can also add notes, create your own recipes, or share recipes with friends. If you like trying out new coffee beans, Aeromatic lets you track your beans and rate them from 1 to 5 stars. Get the most out of your AeroPress and brew better coffee with Aeromatic. This app offers an in-app purchase for Aeromatic Premium. Terms of Use can be found at https://aeromatic.app/terms.html and the Privacy Policy can be found at https://aeromatic.app/privacy.html

About

Coffee Journal

Log your coffee brews, beans, and recipes in a digital journal. Track brewing details, tasting notes, and coffee bag aging. Discover new recipes and connect with the coffee community.

Highlights
  • Coffee journal for brews and café visits
  • Track beans, roast dates, and aging
  • Explore and save coffee recipes
  • Organize coffee gear
  • AI bag scanning for details
  • Coffee community feed
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BeanBook is a free coffee app for specialty coffee lovers. Keep a coffee journal, organize your beans with a coffee tracker, explore coffee recipes, and follow the coffee world in the Coffee Feed. Remember what made each cup great. Save your photos, tasting notes, grind settings and brewing details together, from your morning pour-over to a memorable café visit. YOUR COFFEE LIBRARY - Beans, Brews, Recipes and Gear live in one library, a swipe apart. - One + button adds a bag, brew, recipe or gear from any page. - View, sort and filter each page from one menu next to search. - Open My Coffee Wrapped, your coffee year, in one tap (Pro). THE COFFEE FEED - Read facts and real voices from the coffee community on new beans and gear, daily, each with its sources, quotes and key notes. - See what coffee people are arguing about in Hot takes, and vote in the Daily Poll. - Catch new coffee drops and deals from roasters in your region. - Save stories to read later. YOUR COFFEE JOURNAL - Record home brews and café visits with photos, notes and ratings. - Track dose, ratio, grind, water temperature and brew time. - Log the water and mineral drops you brewed with. - Send Brew Calculator's ratio, water and pours straight into a Brew Log. - Attach beans, Gear and recipes to each Brew Log. - Save a setup as a template (gear, recipe, numbers and steps) and start your next brews from it (Pro). - Customize sections and backgrounds to make the journal your own. - Changes save as you edit. - Revisit your cups in list or grid view, see every brew on a check-in calendar and every café on a map. YOUR COFFEE TRACKER - Scan coffee bags with AI to fill in the roaster, origin, process and tasting notes. - Track roast dates, resting time and how each bag is aging. - Pause the roast clock while a bag is frozen. - See how much coffee is left in each bag as you brew. - Match your beans to jars with numbered or custom container labels. - Remember your favorite coffees and keep a history of finished bags. EXPLORE COFFEE RECIPES - Discover brewing methods and save your own coffee recipes. - Keep dose, ratio, grind settings and temperature ready for your next brew. - Start a Brew Log from a saved recipe. - Calculate water amounts for two to five pours with Brew Calculator. - Follow your brew with the built-in timer. Find recipes for Hario V60, AeroPress, Hario Switch, OXO Rapid Brewer, V60 NEO, NextLevel Pulsar, Deep27, Origami, Orea, Chemex, French Press and Cezve. Explore recipes from coffee professionals including James Hoffmann, Tetsu Kasuya, Lance Hedrick, Scott Rao, The Coffee Chronicler, April Coffee Roasters and World Brewers Cup champions. YOUR COFFEE GEAR - Organize grinders, brewers, kettles and scales with photos, notes and ratings. - Save grinder settings for the coffees you brew. - Find related Brew Logs on bean and Gear pages. - Keep a wish list for your next setup. BEANBOOK AI - Scan bags to spend less time entering coffee details. - Ask about origins, processing, flavor notes and brewing techniques. - Get suggestions for grind size, temperature, resting time and extraction. FREE TO START BeanBook is a free coffee app with optional Pro features. Keep up to 10 fully unlocked Brew Logs on the free plan, plus unlimited basic logs with photos, notes, beans, locations and overall ratings. BeanBook Pro unlocks unlimited beans, recipes and Gear, plus advanced Brew Log features beyond the free allowance. Brew, taste, remember. Keep your coffee journey in BeanBook. Terms of Service: https://beanbook.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://beanbook.app/policy

Screenshots

Aeromatic4 screens
Coffee Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Coffee Journal at every 4 days against Aeromatic's monthly. Coffee Journal also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Aeromatic's advantage is ratings volume (106 vs 30). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Aeromatic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Coffee Journal sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.90 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Aeromatic against 4.9 for Coffee Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 106 and 30 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 97% of Aeromatic's written reviews are positive against 91% of Coffee Journal's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Aeromatic ships an update monthly, Coffee Journal every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Aeromatic versus Coffee Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAeromaticCoffee Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (106 ratings) — better4.9 (30 ratings)
Positive reviews96.8% of reviews — better91.3% of reviews
Number of ratings106 — better30
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB104 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAwardSenseBitlever

Customer experience

Aeromatic

All ratings105 ratings
Positive98.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive96.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.2%

Coffee Journal

All ratings30 ratings
Positive96.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive91.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.7%

Bugs and requests

Aeromatic

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Transition sound overrides Bluetooth audio
  • Some features moved to paid version after update

Requested features

11 requests
  • Add Wilfa Uniform grinder
  • Update champion recipes
  • Add new Aeropress equipment (e.g., XL)
  • Add German language support
  • Implement recipe import/export
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  • Add a drink tracker
  • Add roast level to user-created recipes
  • Add Baratza Forte grinder
  • Integrate V60 recipes
  • Dark mode option
  • Section for coffee bean flavor profiles

Coffee Journal

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Aeromatic

One-time1
  • Aeromatic Premium$7.99
4 purchases

Coffee Journal

Subscriptions4
  • BeanBook Pro Monthly$7.901 Month
  • BeanBook Pro1 Month trial$35.901 Year
  • BeanBook Pro1 Month trial$49.901 Year
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  • BeanBook Pro1 Year trial$49.901 Year

Questions

Is Aeromatic free?
Aeromatic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Coffee Journal free?
Coffee Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Aeromatic or Coffee Journal?
Aeromatic is rated higher. Aeromatic averages 4.9 out of 5 from 106 ratings, while Coffee Journal averages 4.9 from 30 ratings.
Do Aeromatic or Coffee Journal have ads?
Neither Aeromatic nor Coffee Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Aeromatic or Coffee Journal?
Aeromatic ships an update monthly, and Coffee Journal every 4 days. Most recently, Aeromatic was updated on November 7, 2026 and Coffee Journal on November 8, 2026.

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