Comparison

Coffee Note vs Trawl

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

Head to head
About

Coffee Note

Log your coffee experiences, from home brews to cafe visits. Customize the tasting notes you record, like bitterness and sweetness, to remember every sip. Discover and cherish your favorite coffee moments.

Highlights
  • Record coffee tasting notes
  • Customize recording items (bitterness, acidity, sweetness)
  • Log home brews and cafe coffees
  • Track favorite coffee beans
  • Save memorable coffee encounters
Features
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This application records the taste of coffee. You can freely customize the items you want to record, such as bitterness, acidity, and sweetness. Record wonderful encounters such as coffee you brewed at home, coffee you drank at a coffee shop, or your favorite coffee beans.

About

Trawl

Features
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Your cookbooks deserve better than collecting dust. Point your camera at any page and Trawl extracts a clean, searchable recipe in seconds โ€” ingredients, steps, prep time, and tips, all perfectly formatted. No typing. No transcription errors. Just open, scan, cook. SCAN ANY COOKBOOK, ANY LANGUAGE Trawl reads cookbook pages in any language. Whether it's your grandmother's Italian classic, a Japanese baking book, or a dog-eared French paperback, Trawl extracts structured recipes you can actually use. Recipes that span two pages? Trawl merges them into one. A page with three short recipes? You get three โ€” real cookbooks aren't one-recipe-per-photo, and Trawl knows it. Register your cookbooks by scanning the ISBN barcode and organize recipes by book and chapter โ€” just like your shelf, but searchable. GROCERY LISTS THAT WRITE THEMSELVES Pick the recipes you want to cook this week. Trawl combines all the ingredients into one consolidated shopping list โ€” no duplicates, no guesswork. Meal prep starts before you leave the house. YOUR PERSONAL RECIPE ASSISTANT Ask Trawl anything. Search across your entire collection by ingredient, cuisine, or dietary need. Create new recipes from a description. Import recipes from YouTube videos. The chat assistant understands your library and helps you find exactly what to cook tonight. AUTOMATIC TAGS & COMPLEXITY SCORES Every scanned recipe is automatically tagged with dietary labels โ€” vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and more โ€” plus a complexity score so you know what you're getting into on a Tuesday versus a Saturday. Filter and browse without ever tagging anything yourself. SYNCED EVERYWHERE Your recipe collection lives in iCloud and stays in sync across all your devices. Scan in the kitchen, shop from your phone, cook from your tablet. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO OWN COOKBOOKS Most recipe apps want you to browse their collection. Trawl is different. It works with the cookbooks you already own and love โ€” the ones with bookmarks, sticky notes, and sauce stains. Your recipes. Your library. Searchable, shoppable, and always with you. GET STARTED FREE Scan your first 50 recipes and send 25 chat messages at no cost โ€” enough to try it with your favorite cookbook and see the difference. All recipes you scan are yours to keep forever, even on the free tier. Trawl Pro โ€” $4.99/month or $39.99/year (save 33%) Unlimited scans. Unlimited chat. Your full cookbook shelf, digitized. Privacy Policy: https://trawl.cc/privacy

Screenshots

Coffee Note3 screens
Trawl4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Trawl at none against Coffee Note's shown. Trawl also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Coffee Note's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Coffee Note sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and Trawl sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Coffee Note ships an update every 3 weeks, Trawl every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 5 level
Coffee Note versus Trawl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoffee NoteTrawl
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesโ€”
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size11 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaiki TsukudaPhilipp Kurosch Hematty

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Coffee Note

Subscriptions1
  • Coffee Note Pro7 Days trial$0.991 Month
1 purchases

Trawl

Subscriptions1
  • Trawl Pro$4.991 Month

Questions

Is Coffee Note free?
Coffee Note is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Trawl free?
Trawl is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Coffee Note or Trawl have ads?
Coffee Note shows ads; Trawl does not.
Which is updated more often, Coffee Note or Trawl?
Coffee Note ships an update every 3 weeks, and Trawl every 2 days. Most recently, Coffee Note was updated on November 3, 2026 and Trawl on October 31, 2026.

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