Comparison

Brewli vs Cold Brew Studio

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

Head to head
About

Brewli

Easily track your cold brew coffee steeps with customizable timers and detailed logging. Receive timely notifications when your brew is ready, and categorize your creations by bean type, temperature, and roast. Save your favorite recipes with ratings and notes.

Highlights
  • Customizable cold brew timers
  • Brew completion notifications
  • Detailed brew history
  • Categorization by bean, temp, roast
  • Ratings and notes for steeps
  • Unlimited live timers
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Simply create a new brew, add categorization, slide the timer to your desired length, and you're off! You will get notified of when your brew is done so you can take it out at exactly the right time. Features: * Get notifications when your cold brew is done * Keep a history of all of your past brews * Create an unlimited number of live timers * Categorize your brews by bean type, steep temp, roast * Add ratings and notes to your cold brew steeps * No ADs, or timer restrictions Download Brewli today!

About

Cold Brew Studio

Features
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Cold brew is forgiving right up until it isn't. A setting that tastes great on one grinder turns to sludge on another, and the batch you nailed last month is a guess by the time you open a new bag. Cold Brew Studio is a digital studio for the gear on your counter. Tell it what you grind with and what you brew in, and it works out the recipe for your exact setup. Then it helps you dial in every bean you buy. YOUR SETUP ON ONE SCREEN Brew shows your grinder's dial with the setting marked, the grams of coffee and milliliters of water for your batch, and your bag of beans standing next to your brewer. Tap the dial, the bag or the brewer to change it. When it looks right, hit Start steeping. 80+ GRINDERS, RESEARCHED AND DRAWN More than 80 of the most popular grinders were researched and drawn, giving you a full digital studio for your gear. Each one wears its real dial, whether yours has a knob that turns or a numbered ring that rotates past a mark. The cold brew setting starts from the manufacturer's guidance and what the coffee community has worked out. Found your own sweet spot? Drag the dial to where you actually dialed in and the recipe follows. Using something rarer? Add it as your own grinder. SIZED TO WHAT YOU BREW IN Twenty brewers are built in, from a quart mason jar up to a gallon dispenser, and you can add your own by its capacity. Every batch is sized to what your brewer actually holds. Pick a strength: Everyday, Strong, Jet fuel or Concentrate. If your brewer came with its own recipe, that's on the list too. ANY BEAN, READY TO GO Search more than 300 beans from specialty roasters, or scan the label on your bag and the app fills in the bean for you. KNOW WHEN IT'S READY Start steeping and watch your brewer darken hour by hour. The batch lives on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a notification when it's ready to taste and another before it steeps too long. Ask Siri what's steeping, or start a batch by voice. DIAL IN EVERY BEAN Rate each batch and tap what was off, like too weak or too bitter, and the next recipe adjusts. Every bean you brew gets a bag on your shelf, with your rating on the plank below it. Tap a bag for its field notes: your tasting notes next to what the bag promised, with every brew of that bean underneath. Once a bean is dialed in, its best recipe is one tap from brewing again. YOURS Your journal lives on your device, and you never need an account. If you want one, it syncs your journal between your iPhone and the web app at coldbrew.studio. There are no ads or trackers, and your data is never sold. Brew something worth waiting for.

Screenshots

Brewli4 screens
Cold Brew Studio4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cold Brew Studio at none against Brewli's 3. Brewli's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Brewli sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Cold Brew Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brewli ships an update every 4 days, Cold Brew Studio weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Brewli versus Cold Brew Studio: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrewliCold Brew Studio
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeremy HernandezTYLER RICHLEY CANNON

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Brewli

One-time3
  • Coffee Tip!$0.99
  • Cold-Brew tip!$1.99
  • Latte Tip!$4.99
None

Cold Brew Studio

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brewli free?
Brewli is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cold Brew Studio free?
Cold Brew Studio is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Brewli or Cold Brew Studio have ads?
Neither Brewli nor Cold Brew Studio shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brewli or Cold Brew Studio?
Brewli ships an update every 4 days, and Cold Brew Studio weekly. Most recently, Brewli was updated on October 7, 2026 and Cold Brew Studio on October 6, 2026.

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