Comparison

GinBook vs Fermentation Lab

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

Head to head
About

GinBook

Features
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Introducing GinBook: Your Ultimate Gin and Tonic Companion Unleash your inner mixologist and take your love for gin and tonic to the next level with GinBook! Whether you're a casual sipper or a dedicated connoisseur, this app is your perfect companion for crafting, recording, and savoring your favorite concoctions. Key Features: Store Your Gin Collection: Keep a meticulous record of your gin collection. Store details such as brand, name, type of gin, alcohol percentage, and more. Never forget that exceptional bottle you've been eyeing! Tonic Collection at Your Fingertips: Just like your gin, you can effortlessly catalog your tonic collection. Keep track of brands, flavors, and tonic water details to create the perfect pairing every time. Garnishes Galore: Elevate your gin and tonic experience with the right garnishes. GinBook lets you store and organize a variety of garnishes to complement your drinks, whether it's citrus twists, fresh herbs, or exotic botanicals. Craft and Share Recipes: Unleash your inner mixologist and create your unique gin and tonic recipes! Mix and match gins, tonics, and garnishes, specifying measurements precisely. Pour and Rate: Record every pour with ease. Whether you're following a stored recipe or improvising, GinBook helps you log your experiences. Give each pour a personal rating and keep track of your favorites. Share your creations with friends or fellow enthusiasts. Log Your Gin Journey: GinBook becomes your personal gin diary. Track your tasting journey, discover new combinations, and reminisce about your favorite sips with your pouring history. Get GinBook on your device today and toast to the art of gin and tonic crafting. Cheers to the perfect pour! Privacy Policy: http://driesvanmeert.be/privacy.html EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Fermentation Lab

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Fermentation Lab is the cellar notebook for people who ferment at home. Pick a ferment and a recipe: the app weighs the ingredients, tells you what to do each day and keeps track of temperature, pH and salt, jar by jar. Start from a recipe 95 recipes for 39 ferments – sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, kefir, yogurt, miso, shoyu, koji, tempeh, cured meats, cheese, vinegar, beer, wine, mead and more – plus bread recipes and pizza styles. Ingredients arrive already weighed and stay in proportion: change how much you make, or one line, and the rest follows. Next to each ingredient you see whether it is in your pantry; what is missing goes to the shopping list. Or write your own recipe and keep it for next time. The right step, every day Each type has its own care sheet: the phases, the task of each phase and the checkpoints – minimum salt, pH by the expected day, temperature limits, humidity, weight loss. Home follows what is fermenting and reminds you of today's task, with a notification when it is due. Short ferments such as bread, koji or yogurt are counted in hours. Log it, understand it Temperature, pH, gravity, notes and photos in one tap. Every reading is read for your ferment: whether it is within the limits of its care sheet, whether it is too early to tell, what counts besides that number. Measuring guides explain how to read pH and Β°Brix properly. You can connect an Inkbird Bluetooth sensor for temperature and humidity. Bread and pizza Baker's percentages on total flour, hydration, sourdough starter, biga and poolish. The method is part of the recipe: autolyse, folds, a night in the fridge, the pan. Doughs made in pieces are asked in pieces – four 250 g dough balls – and the step-by-step recipe has timers. The water temperature that brings the dough to the right temperature is one tap away from Home. The Laboratory Pantry and supplies, a shopping list with a barcode scanner, your cultures, the archive of finished ferments, statistics across batches, a calendar and timers. The Library Problems and doubts ("is it mold?"), techniques and microbes, with a search that reads inside the cards. Share An Instagram story or post with the jar's photo, log or recipe, plus a link to its web page. The Community Your profile is your lab: a jar for every ferment in progress. A weekly leaderboard, daily quests, culture swaps and a swap map. Others see only the types and progress of your lab – never names, notes or photos – and you can hide it. The Brigade, for kitchens A shared lab for kitchen teams: tickets on the rail, shift handovers, the week's HACCP checks, roles. And more Eight languages, a paper or cellar theme, and a predicted flavor profile and umami score (they are estimates). Fermentation Lab helps you keep count and not skip a check. Its values are the common ones of home fermentation: a number within limits says that number is within limits, not that a food is safe or ready. When in doubt, don't taste it.

Screenshots

GinBook4 screens
Fermentation Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fermentation Lab at none against GinBook's 6. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. GinBook sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Fermentation Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
GinBook versus Fermentation Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGinBookFermentation Lab
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyβ€”Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo β€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” better
Requires iOS16.115.1 β€” better
Further details β€” not scored
Size3 MB84 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperDries VanmeertAntonio Lice

In-app purchases

6 purchases

GinBook

Subscriptions2
  • GinBook Pro - Monthly$1.991 Month
  • GinBook Pro - Annual$17.991 Year
One-time4
  • Garnish Tip$0.99
  • Tonic Tip$2.99
  • Gin & Tonic Tip$8.99
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  • Bottle of Gin Tip$22.99
None

Fermentation Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GinBook free?
GinBook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fermentation Lab free?
Fermentation Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GinBook or Fermentation Lab have ads?
Neither GinBook nor Fermentation Lab shows ads.

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