Act Four vs The Coffee Index
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Act Four
Learn to brew perfect espresso with video guidance and taste analysis. The app tracks your brew automatically, helping you adjust your machine and recipe for your ideal cup. Designed for both beginners and experienced baristas.
- Video-guided brewing workflow
- Speed and taste analysis
- Machine and grinder adjustment guidance
- Automatic recipe tracking
- Hands-free operation
- Brew Weight and Timing adjustments
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Let’s brew amazing espresso. New to espresso? Act Four’s video-guided workflow is designed to quickly walk you through the same steps used by professional baristas. We’ll analyze the speed and taste of each brew to tweak your machine, grinder, and brew recipe until you land on your ideal cup. Espresso pro? Let’s dial in by taste. After each brew, we’ll dive into the tasting experience to drive adjustments to Brew Weight and Brew Timing. Each brew iterates on the previous until we hit that magic cup. Act Four’s minimal workflow is designed to be hands-free and out of your way. Just open the app for automatic recipe, preinfusion, brew, and flow rate tracking. Privacy Policy: https://actfour.coffee/privacy Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
The Coffee Index
Log your coffee experiences, rate drinks, and discover your taste preferences. This private journal helps you track cafés, drinks, and overall satisfaction with detailed customization and insightful analysis. Build a personal profile of your coffee journey.
- Log every coffee visit and order details
- Rate coffee quality, atmosphere, and service
- Add photos and mood tags to visits
- Discover taste profiles and scoring trends
- Private, device-stored data with iCloud sync
- No ads or tracking
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The Coffee Index is a personal café journal for anyone who takes their coffee seriously. Log every visit, rate every drink, and build a record of cafés and experiences that matter to you – all in a beautifully designed, private app that lives on your device. Log Every Visit Record where you went, what you ordered, and how it was. Full drink customization covers type, temperature, milk base, syrups, cold foam, and size – so your log actually reflects what you drank. Rate What Matters Score each visit across multiple criteria: coffee quality, atmosphere, value, service, and more. A composite score gives you an at-a-glance view of how a café stacks up, while individual criteria reveal exactly why you loved — or didn't love — a visit. Add Photos and Mood Capture a photo of your drink and tag the vibe with mood tags. Your visit log becomes a genuine diary, not just a list of numbers. Discover Your Tastes The Insights screen turns your coffee history into something useful. See your top-rated shops, favorite drink types, scoring trends, and other patterns over time. Build your Taste Profile to better understand the flavors and characteristics you gravitate toward — creating a more personal picture of what great coffee means to you. Your Data, Your Privacy Everything is stored privately on your device and synced securely via iCloud. No account required. No ads. No tracking. Designed with Care The Coffee Index is a native SwiftUI app built with attention to detail at every screen — from the fluid drink customization flow to the polished visit history.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: The Coffee Index at none against Act Four's 3. Act Four's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Act Four sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. The Coffee Index asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Act Four against 5.0 for The Coffee Index. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Act Four has 18 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Act Four ships an update every 8 days, The Coffee Index every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Act Four | The Coffee Index |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | AIV, LLC | Isaiah Clonch |
Customer experience
Act Four
The Coffee Index
In-app purchases
Act Four
- Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- SwitchBot Integration$19.99
The Coffee Index
No in-app purchases
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