PLAATO Pro vs BruCalc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PLAATO Pro
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PLAATO Pro is at the heart of PLAATO’s comprehensive brewing solution, providing real-time insights into crucial fermentation parameters. It offers detailed data on: • Gravity • Temperature • Fermentation Activity • Historical Data with comparison • Fermenter overview PLAATO Pro delivers a range of insights and customizable triggers tailored to your specific monitoring needs. This helps you to precisely determine the end of fermentation and set up personalized notifications for optimized fermentation timing and liquid detection in the fermenter. What sets PLAATO Pro apart is its data-driven approach to brewing. This not only enhances quality and repeatability but also saves time and money. Features include: • Automatic sampling for significant time savings • Notifications for corrective actions, ensuring top-notch production quality • Comprehensive data on the entire fermentation process for better quality control and learning • Insights into the precise moment your brew is ready, allowing for higher efficiency and asset utilization • A high-quality industrial design that complements your brewery Embrace the next level of brewing with PLAATO Pro and make your process more efficient, controlled, and consistent. Elevate your brewing experience and ensure quality with every batch.
BruCalc
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BruCalc is an offline brewing calculator built for practical day-to-day brewery work. It brings common brewhouse, hop, yeast, cellar, water, and conversion calculations into one streamlined app designed around real brewing measurements. Calculators include: • Strike / Mash Water • Theoretical Yield • Brewhouse Efficiency • Kettle Addition Scaler • Sugar Gravity Adjustment • Hop Addition → IBU • IBU → Hop Addition • Dry-Hop Scaler • Pitch Rate • Carbonation • Attenuation & ABV • Sugar Addition • Liquor Back • Spirit Dilution • Beer Calories • Salt Addition • Volume Conversion • Weight Conversion • SG ↔ Plato • °F ↔ °C • Hydrometer Correction BruCalc also includes a read-only Formula Reference so you can review the equations, variables, units, assumptions, and methods used throughout the app. Designed for brewery-scale measurements, BruCalc supports units including bbl, gal, L, hL, lb, oz, kg, g, specific gravity, degrees Plato, IBU, ppm, psi, bar, kPa, and cells/mL/°P. Key features: • Works offline • No account required • Fast, practical brewery calculations • Transparent formulas and assumptions • Imperial and metric unit support • Built for brewhouse, cellar, yeast, hop, and water calculations BruCalc is intended as a brewing reference and calculation tool. Users remain responsible for verifying results and determining whether calculations are appropriate for their own equipment, ingredients, processes, and operating procedures.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: PLAATO Pro at 3 against BruCalc's 1. PLAATO Pro also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | PLAATO Pro | BruCalc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Plaato Technologies AS | Chase Burrell |
In-app purchases
PLAATO Pro
No in-app purchases
BruCalc
No in-app purchases








