Comparison

FineCup vs Brewly

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

Head to head
About

FineCup

Features
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Do you want a cup of good coffee? Brew it yourself! Start with the recommended recipes for alternative brewing from our team. Create your own step-by-step recipes, follow them, try new. Make your cup of damn fine coffee.

About

Brewly

Master your coffee brewing with guided timers, customizable recipes, and a detailed journal. Track grinder settings, rate your brews, and easily replicate your favorite cups. No ads, subscriptions, or accounts needed.

Highlights
  • Guided brewing timers
  • Editable coffee recipes
  • Grinder setting tracking
  • Brew journal and history
  • Recipe sharing
  • Light and dark modes
Features
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Brew better coffee with guided timers, editable recipes, grinder settings, and a brew journal. Completely free, with no ads or subscriptions. Brewly helps you repeat the cups you love. Follow each brewing stage, adjust coffee and water, remember the exact grinder setting, then rate the result and add tasting notes. No account required. GUIDED BREWING • Step-by-step timers for pour-over, immersion, espresso, and cold brew • Clear pour, wait, bloom, and drawdown stages • Sound and haptic cues so you can focus on brewing • Scale recipes to match your serving size RECIPES YOUR WAY • Start with recipes for V60, Chemex, Kalita Wave, AeroPress, French press, Clever Dripper, espresso, and more • Create, edit, duplicate, search, filter, and sort recipes • Save dose, water, ratio, grind size, temperature, and custom stages • Share recipes as text or scannable QR codes DIAL IN EVERY CUP • Build a collection of your grinders • Save the grinder and exact setting used for each brew • Rate brews, add tasting tags and notes, and restart favorites from history MADE FOR DAILY USE • No ads, subscriptions, or in-app purchases • No account required • Light and dark modes • Celsius and Fahrenheit • Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese • Optimized for iPhone and iPad Brewly keeps the workflow simple: choose a recipe, set your dose, follow the timer, and learn from every cup.

Screenshots

FineCup4 screens
Brewly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Brewly at every 8 days against FineCup's every 10 months. Brewly also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FineCup ships an update every 10 months, Brewly every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
FineCup versus Brewly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFineCupBrewly
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 monthsEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPavel PodgornovJerome Sommerfeldt

In-app purchases

None

FineCup

No in-app purchases

None

Brewly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FineCup free?
FineCup is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brewly free?
Brewly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FineCup or Brewly have ads?
Neither FineCup nor Brewly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FineCup or Brewly?
FineCup ships an update every 10 months, and Brewly every 8 days. Most recently, FineCup was updated on October 27, 2026 and Brewly on October 25, 2026.

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