Perfect Cup vs Good Espresso
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Perfect Cup
This app helps filter coffee enthusiasts save and recall their favorite brewing recipes. Easily log your preferred methods and bean settings to quickly recreate the perfect cup every time. Reduce wasted time and coffee by having your go-to recipes readily available.
- Save coffee recipes
- Log brew methods
- Record bean settings
- Quickly recall favorites
- Reduce brew time
- Enjoy perfect coffee
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If you brew your own filter coffee and love trying out various brew methods and beans. Chances are that you'll end up with many coffee recipes for many coffee beans. Save your favorite recipes in this little app, so whenever you buy that bean again, a quick glance at your brew recipes and settings you recorded can quickly help you brew another perfect cup in no time. Waste less time (and coffee) dialing in. Spend more time relaxing on a sofa, listening to music, and enjoying your perfect cup of coffee.
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
Perfect Cup and Good Espresso both sit at 4.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 83% of Good Espresso's written reviews are positive against 67% of Perfect Cup's. Good Espresso also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 15.6). Perfect Cup's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.0 for Perfect Cup against 4.1 for Good Espresso. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 7 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Perfect Cup's written reviews are positive against 83% of Good Espresso's.
Perfect Cup ships an update fortnightly, Good Espresso monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Perfect Cup | Good Espresso |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) | 4.1 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 7 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Auditorium Company Limited | Joshua Johnson |
Customer experience
Perfect Cup
Good Espresso
In-app purchases
Perfect Cup
No in-app purchases
Good Espresso
No in-app purchases
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