Coffee Profile vs BeanBase
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Coffee Profile
Manage your coffee journey from green beans to brewed perfection. Track roasted beans, record tasting notes, and utilize a built-in drip timer for precise brewing.
- Green coffee bean management
- Roasted coffee bean tracking
- Brewing method logging
- Tasting notes recording
- Drip coffee timer
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Coffee Profile helps you record coffee beans, roasted beans, brewing methods, drip timers, and tasting notes in one organized workspace. Save grind size, dose, yield, water temperature, dripper, brew steps, and flavor impressions for each recipe. Track green beans and roasted beans separately, then connect them to your daily brews and tasting notes. Use it as a coffee log, pour-over timer, cupping notebook, and recipe archive for home brewing, specialty coffee practice, and cafe workflow review.
BeanBase
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BeanBase is an app thoughtfully designed for coffee lovers like you. It’s more than just a logging tool—it’s your intelligent companion for exploring, learning, and enjoying the world of coffee. Core Features: - Comprehensive Logging: Easily record every detail of your coffee beans—from origin, elevation, and variety to roaster, roast level, and processing method. - Precision Brewing Tracker: Keep track of your brewing sessions in detail, including equipment used, grind size, water temperature, brew time, final rating, and tasting notes. - Personalized Flavor Library: Capture the subtle flavors and textures of coffee to build your own tasting archive. - Data Visualization: Discover hidden patterns with intuitive charts that analyze your brewing data, bean preferences, and origin distribution. - Intelligent Identification: Simply take a picture of the coffee packaging and AI will automatically extract detailed information such as bean variety, origin, processing method, etc., making recording easy and fun. You no longer have to manually enter tedious coffee information. - Elegant Browsing: Enjoy your coffee bean collection like a gallery with a unique carousel view that showcases key details and photos at a glance. - Highly Customizable: Beyond recording, you can also manage your own origins, varieties, processing methods, roasters, and more—creating a database that truly reflects your coffee world. Whether you’re just stepping into the world of specialty coffee or you’re a seasoned enthusiast, BeanBase helps you systematically manage your coffee knowledge, enhance your tasting skills, and document every step of your coffee journey.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Coffee Profile at 13.0 against BeanBase's 18.0. On price, update cadence, 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. Coffee Profile sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BeanBase sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Coffee Profile ships an update every 2 weeks, BeanBase weekly. The most recent releases landed on August 10, 2026 and June 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Coffee Profile | BeanBase |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 79.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Keiichi Ota | 超 李 |
In-app purchases
Coffee Profile
- Gift to Developers$1.99
BeanBase
- One-time Unlock$12.99





