Fermenticus Brew Log vs Clothesline QuickView
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fermenticus Brew Log
This app is a comprehensive logbook, calculator, and recipe formulator for homebrewers and small craft brewers. It helps you input ingredients, perform calculations for gravity, color, and bitterness, and manage your brewing recipes.
- Recipe formulation and storage
- Ingredient database
- Automatic gravity, color, and bitterness calculations
- Mash rest and sparge calculations
- Brew-house efficiency and yeast attenuation tracking
- US & Metric unit support
- Recipe export via email
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Fermenticus Brew Log is a logbook, calculator, and recipe formulator for homebrewers and small craft brewers alike. • Optimized for both iPhone & iPad. • Clean design - You can quickly input your ingredients and measurements, automatically perform important calculations, and concentrate on the brewing instead of the software! • Suitable for any level of expertise - Brew Log will handle all your extract, steeped grain, partial mash, or all-grain recipes. • Ingredients database - Add your own ingredients or select from lists of common malts, extracts, adjuncts, hops, and commercially available yeasts. • Save your recipes - Recipes are stored on your device for quick access at any time. You can also export your recipes via email in a convenient table format that can be pasted into any spreadsheet or printed out for brew day reference. • Organize your recipes - Sort your recipes with logbooks for organizing and archiving. • As you add grains or hops Brew Log instantly updates estimated gravity, color, and bitterness. Great for building recipes on the go. • Mash Rest & Sparge calculations for simple to complex mashes. Calculates volumes and temperatures for your strike water, infusions, and decoctions. • Built in calculators to determine original and final gravity, alcohol (ABV), bitterness (IBU), color (SRM), efficiency, attenuation, and more. • Choose a standard beer style or make up your own. • Designed to be an efficient brewing companion for quick logging during your brew day (“Do more with fewer clicks”). • US & Metric simultaneously supported. You can combine both US and metric units in your malt bill or hop bill. Recipes can also be converted from US to Metric and vice versa. • Unique date handling, so you can add dates with information about the date. Useful for logging information during fermentation or bottling! • Once you make your own measurement Brew Log will let you know your actual brew-house efficiency (for all-grain) and actual yeast attenuation. • Save your default settings such as typical batch size and if you brew extract/all-grain/steeped. Of course, this information can always be set on a recipe by recipe basis. ••• Important Information Regarding In-App Purchases ••• Brew Log has a limitation on the number of recipes you can store on your device. All users will get 5 empty recipe slots. There is no other limitation on any functions. The free slots are the exact same as paid recipe slots. Brew Log's In-App Purchases are tied to your iTunes account and are permanent. Your purchases on one device will be shared on all your devices. You can refresh to restore your purchases at any time. Upgrades of +10, +25, and unlimited slots are available for less than a beer at the pub. If you reach your maximum recipe limit, you will have to either delete existing recipes (I recommend exporting via Email first!) or purchase an upgrade before adding a new recipe or cloning an existing recipe. Cheers and Happy Brewing!
Clothesline QuickView
This iPhone app helps you manage your laundry at participating locations. View machine availability and receive notifications when a machine is busy, all through Bluetooth communication with the appliances.
- View machine availability
- Receive busy machine notifications
- Bluetooth machine communication
- Smart laundry solution
- iPhone compatible
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ATTENTION: Only for use in participating Clothesline Laundry locations. Clothesline QuickView is an iPhone application providing the easiest and smartest complete laundry solution. This app allows you to view your machine availability and get notification of a busy machine by using Bluetooth to communicate with the washer or dryer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Fermenticus Brew Log at 85% against Clothesline QuickView's 0%. Fermenticus Brew Log also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.7) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 10 months). Clothesline QuickView's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Fermenticus Brew Log sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Clothesline QuickView asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fermenticus Brew Log holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fermenticus Brew Log has 46 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Fermenticus Brew Log's written reviews are positive against 0% of Clothesline QuickView's.
Fermenticus Brew Log ships an update every 6 weeks, Clothesline QuickView every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fermenticus Brew Log | Clothesline QuickView |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (46 ratings) — better | 3.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 46 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 10 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mark Hambly | KioSoft Technologies LLC |
Customer experience
Fermenticus Brew Log
Clothesline QuickView
Bugs and requests
Fermenticus Brew Log
Reported bugs
15 issues- App crashes on open after paying to add recipes
- Paid for additional slots and lost all recipes when changing from Android to iOS
- Most recent version/update is over 2 years ago
- App not functioning correctly, not estimating IBU
- Cannot remove added items (grain, hops, mash rest)
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- Mash water and temp calculations get messed up with second sparge/mash out
- Cannot paste photos in notes
- Export feature only goes to email
- Dry hop calculator does not work
- Water volume calculations appear off
- Font on export email is tiny
- App crashes when trying to enter a new fermentation or brew date (since iOS8)
- Cannot expand current limit of 5 recipes (no in-app purchases)
- App crashes when trying to share grain bills
- After an update nothing seemed to work
Requested features
26 requests- Export to iPhone outlook app
- Highlight selected recipe for easier navigation
- Update ingredient list (hops, yeasts, malts)
- Ability to select Coopers products as LME addition
- UI font scaling
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- Add common yeast strains for mead making
- Sync between devices
- Desktop site
- Import recipes from home brew sites
- Add timer
- Add brewing salt addition calculator
- Add common yeast strains for mead making
- Export to BeerXML
- iCloud syncing for other iOS devices
- Calendar (or iCal integration)
- Field to plug in gravity readings
- Ability to delete entered items
- Water dilution feature
- Partigyle or second runnings brews
- Export to Untappd
- Print function
- More brew sessions available
- Upload step by step pics of brew
- Timer and alert function
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
Clothesline QuickView
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Fermenticus Brew Log
- 10 Recipe Slots$2.99
- 10 Additional Recipe Slots$2.99
- 10 More Recipe Slots$2.99
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- 25 Recipe Slots$5.99
- 25 Additional Recipe Slots$5.99
- 25 More Recipe Slots$5.99
- Unlimited Recipe Slots$11.99
- To Infinity... And Beyond!$11.99
Clothesline QuickView
No in-app purchases
Questions
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