Comparison

Good Espresso vs Kaffedex

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Log espresso shots
  • Track brewing variables
  • Save favorite recipes
  • Add notes and photos
  • Discover user recipes
  • Log coffee shop drinks
Features
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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.

About

Kaffedex

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Dial in espresso in 1–2 shots, not 15. Kaffedex is the espresso companion for baristas and serious home enthusiasts who are tired of wasting beans guessing dose and grind. Log a pull and Kaffedex tells you the next move — dose and grind direction — converging on a great shot in a couple of calibration pulls instead of a dozen throwaways. DIAL IN FASTER • Log dose, yield, time, grind setting and basket — get a suggested next pull with a dose and a grind adjustment. • The reasoning runs fully offline. It reads your actual shots; roast level, varietal and process fine-tune the call. • Grind advice is shown in your grinder's own clicks or marks AND in plain "finer / coarser" — because no two grinders agree on which way the numbers go. KNOWS YOUR GRINDER • Hand-drawn dials for Niche, Timemore, Lagom, EK43, Mazzer, Weber, Acaia Orbit, Zerno and more — including aftermarket burrs. • Per-burr calibration that sharpens the more you pull. MEASURE LIKE A PRO • Extraction dashboard: TDS, extraction yield, and a live shot graph with flow. • Pair a Bluetooth scale or refractometer to capture weight, time and TDS automatically. THE CODEX — PRO • A built-in coffee encyclopedia: 60+ variety stories, processing methods, origin countries with shaded-relief terrain maps, Cup of Excellence farms, and a sensory guide. LIVES ON YOUR PHONE • Home-screen widgets and a Live Activity / Dynamic Island shot timer. • iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad. • Share any recipe as a scannable card and import a teammate's dial-in in seconds. Free: up to 4 beans with 20 pulls each, the complete rule-based dial-in engine, every grinder dial, and the full extraction dashboard. Kaffedex Pro: unlimited beans and pulls, the entire Codex, and AI coaching — turn a taste note like "sour and thin" into a concrete adjustment, plus varietal-aware guidance. Less guessing. Fewer wasted shots. Better coffee. — Legal Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://octolabo.app/kaffedex/privacy/

Screenshots

Good Espresso4 screens
Kaffedex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Good Espresso at none against Kaffedex's 4. Good Espresso also leads on iOS requirement (13.4 vs 18.0). 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. Kaffedex sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Good Espresso asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Good Espresso ships an update monthly, Kaffedex fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Good Espresso versus Kaffedex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGood EspressoKaffedex
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoshua JohnsonCiantury Octojaya

In-app purchases

None

Good Espresso

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Kaffedex

Subscriptions2
  • Kaffedex Pro (Monthly)3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Kaffedex Pro (Yearly)3 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time2
  • 100 AI Credits (Aipack100)$4.99
  • Kaffedex Pro — Lifetime access$79.99

Questions

Is Good Espresso free?
Good Espresso is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kaffedex free?
Kaffedex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Good Espresso or Kaffedex have ads?
Neither Good Espresso nor Kaffedex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Good Espresso or Kaffedex?
Good Espresso ships an update monthly, and Kaffedex fortnightly. Most recently, Good Espresso was updated on October 24, 2026 and Kaffedex on October 23, 2026.

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