Timer.Coffee vs Pull & Taste
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Timer.Coffee
This app provides a free, open-source timer and calculator for coffee brewing, offering step-by-step instructions for numerous methods. It allows users to adjust quantities, save grind settings, and track their brewing history. Enjoy real-time community insights and share your own custom recipes.
- 22 Brewing Methods
- Coffee Calculator
- Custom Grind Size
- Background Brewing
- Live Activities
- Create & Share Recipes
- Brew Diary
- Bean Tracking
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Timer.Coffee is a free, open-source coffee brewing timer and calculator designed to enhance your brewing experience. The app is completely free. Optional in-app donations support ongoing development and never affect access to features. Key Features - 27 Brewing Methods: Step-by-step instructions for Hario V60, AeroPress, Chemex, French Press, Clever Dripper, Kalita Wave, Wilfa Svart Pour Over, Origami Dripper, Hario Switch, and more. - Coffee Calculator: Adjust coffee and water quantities on the fly. - Custom Grind Size: Save your grind settings per recipe — never forget your Comandante clicks again. - Background Brewing: The timer keeps running accurately when you minimize the app — switch apps or check a message without losing your place. - Live Activities: Follow your brew step-by-step on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island without unlocking your phone. - Pulse: See what coffee lovers around the world are brewing right now, in real time. - Create & Share Recipes: Build your own brewing recipes and share them with the community. - Brew Diary: Automatically save timer-guided brews or add entries manually, with notes, ratings, taste, tags, grind, water temperature, and extraction. - Bean Tracking: Manage your coffee bean inventory with AI-powered label recognition. - Favorites: Quick access to your most-used recipes. - Audio Chime: Audio alerts for every brewing step. - Dial In Your Beans: Search and filter your history, bookmark best cups, compare attempts, follow bean journeys, and review monthly progress. - Device Sync: Recipes, beans, and brews synced across all your devices. - 22 Languages: Fully localized for a global audience. - Dark Mode: Easy on the eyes at any hour.
Pull & Taste
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Better espresso, without the guesswork. Prop your iPhone by the machine and pull. Pull & Taste hears the pump, starts the timer the moment your shot begins and stops it when it ends. Tap how it tasted and get one clear next step: grind finer, grind coarser or run it longer. No stopwatch. No wet fingers on the screen. No account. HANDS-FREE SHOT TIMER • Locks onto your machine's pump, so talking, the grinder and the steam wand don't start it • Learns your machine in a 13-second calibration • Uses the microphone, the vibration of the machine, or both • Ignores short flushes and purges • Optional pauses for pre-infusion and pre-brewing • Vibrates when your shot reaches and leaves the target time • Keeps timing on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island DIAL IN ANY BEAN Enter dose, yield, time and taste: sour, bitter, thin, too intense or balanced. Pull & Taste suggests one change at a time, the way baristas do, so you know what worked. A RECIPE FOR EVERY DRINK Ristretto, single, double, lungo, americano, cortado, flat white, cappuccino and latte. Get the dose, yield in grams, brew ratio, time, temperature and pre-infusion for your basket and roast. YOUR SHOT LOG • Every shot saved with its recipe, time, taste and notes • Keep your beans and see what you pulled last time with the same bag • Pull the same shot again in one tap • Export to CSV or back up as JSON PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account and no ads. Sound is analysed on your iPhone and never leaves it, and your shots and beans stay on your phone. The app sends anonymous usage statistics only, never who you are. Pull it. Taste it. Adjust it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pull & Taste at none against Timer.Coffee's 3. Timer.Coffee's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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. Timer.Coffee sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Pull & Taste asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Timer.Coffee | Pull & Taste |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (138 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 138 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Anton Karliner | Gijs Hovens |
In-app purchases
Timer.Coffee
- Buy a small coffee$1.99
- Buy a medium coffee$4.99
- Buy a large coffee$9.99
Pull & Taste
No in-app purchases









