COMYU vs Coffee Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
COMYU
Connect with fellow coffee enthusiasts to share experiences, discover new coffee spots, and explore roasters worldwide. Document your favorite coffee journeys and build a community around your passion for specialty coffee.
- Share coffee knowledge and passion
- Submit reviews and suggestions
- Check-in to coffee experiences
- Discover coffee spots and roasters
- Save favorite places and roasters
- Create wishlists
- Connect with coffee friends
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Hey coffee lover. Nice to meet you! Comyu is a social discovery app centered around the promotion of a better coffee! We built it for die-hard coffee lovers to share coffee experiences, discover fire-ass coffee spots, and engage with coffee friends. There are three ways to use Comyu: SHARE - your knowledge, passion and love for specialty coffee by submitting reviews and/or suggestions - your Coffee Experiences (with a Check-In) - your favorites coffee spots, roasters, wishlist DISCOVER / EXPLORE Places, Roasters and Coffees Want to explore some local coffee scenes from all around the world or just want to know more about that latest fire-ass coffee place nearby? Comyu is there for you! You can: - search for roasters and find where their coffees are served nearby and everywhere. - save your favorite places and roasters, create wishlists, and access your lists anytime through your Comyu profile & personalized map. CONNECT / FIND A COMMUNITY With Comyu, you can make coffee friends and inspire them. In a nutshell, Comyu is here to connect and inspire coffee lovers for a better coffee world!
Coffee Journal
Log your coffee experiences, track your beans, and discover new recipes. This app helps you remember every detail of your brews, from tasting notes to brewing parameters, and organize your coffee gear.
- Coffee journal and brew log
- Bean and coffee tracker
- Explore and save coffee recipes
- Organize coffee gear
- AI-powered coffee bag scanning
- Coffee community feed
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BeanBook is a free coffee app for specialty coffee lovers. Keep a coffee journal, organize your beans with a coffee tracker, explore coffee recipes, and follow the coffee world in the Coffee Feed. Remember what made each cup great. Save your photos, tasting notes, grind settings and brewing details together, from your morning pour-over to a memorable café visit. YOUR COFFEE LIBRARY - Beans, Brews, Recipes and Gear live in one library, a swipe apart. - One + button adds a bag, brew, recipe or gear from any page. - Filter My Beans by In use, Finished, Wishlist, freshness or label, and open Brew calc from any page. - Open My Coffee Wrapped, your coffee year, in one tap (Pro). THE COFFEE FEED - Read facts and real voices from the coffee community on new beans and gear, daily, each with its sources, quotes and key notes. - See what coffee people are arguing about in Hot takes, and vote in the Daily Poll. - Catch new coffee drops and deals from roasters in your region. - Save a bag you spot to your Wishlist, log a café cup of it, and move it to My Beans when you buy it. - Save stories to read later. YOUR COFFEE JOURNAL - Record home brews and café visits with photos, notes and ratings. - Track dose, ratio, grind, water temperature and brew time. - Log the water and mineral drops you brewed with. - Send Brew Calculator's ratio, water and pours straight into a Brew Log. - Attach beans, Gear and recipes to each Brew Log. - Save a setup as a template (gear, recipe, numbers and steps) and start your next brews from it (Pro). - Customize sections and backgrounds to make the journal your own. - Changes save as you edit. - Revisit your cups in a list, see every brew on a check-in calendar and every café on a map. YOUR COFFEE TRACKER - Scan coffee bags with AI to fill in the roaster, origin, process and tasting notes. - Track roast dates, resting time and how each bag is aging. - Pause the roast clock while a bag is frozen. - See how much coffee is left in each bag as you brew. - Match your beans to jars with numbered or custom container labels. - Remember your favorite coffees and keep a history of finished bags. EXPLORE COFFEE RECIPES - Discover brewing methods and save your own coffee recipes. - Keep dose, ratio, grind settings and temperature ready for your next brew. - Start a Brew Log from a saved recipe. - Calculate water amounts for two to five pours with Brew Calculator. - Follow your brew with the built-in timer. Find recipes for Hario V60, AeroPress, Hario Switch, OXO Rapid Brewer, V60 NEO, NextLevel Pulsar, Deep27, Origami, Orea, Chemex, French Press and Cezve. Explore recipes from coffee professionals including James Hoffmann, Tetsu Kasuya, Lance Hedrick, Scott Rao, The Coffee Chronicler, April Coffee Roasters and World Brewers Cup champions. YOUR COFFEE GEAR - Organize grinders, brewers, kettles and scales with photos, notes and ratings. - Save grinder settings for the coffees you brew. - Find related Brew Logs on bean and Gear pages. - Keep a wish list for your next setup. BEANBOOK AI - Scan bags to spend less time entering coffee details. - Ask about origins, processing, flavor notes and brewing techniques. - Get suggestions for grind size, temperature, resting time and extraction. FREE TO START BeanBook is a free coffee app with optional Pro features. Keep up to 10 fully unlocked Brew Logs on the free plan, plus unlimited basic logs with photos, notes, beans, locations and overall ratings. BeanBook Pro unlocks unlimited beans, recipes and Gear, plus advanced Brew Log features beyond the free allowance. Brew, taste, remember. Keep your coffee journey in BeanBook. Terms of Service: https://beanbook.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://beanbook.app/policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: COMYU at none against Coffee Journal's 4. COMYU also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 91%). Coffee Journal's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (30 vs 2). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Coffee Journal sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.90 per month. COMYU asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for COMYU against 4.9 for Coffee Journal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Coffee Journal has 30 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of COMYU's written reviews are positive against 91% of Coffee Journal's.
COMYU ships an update monthly, Coffee Journal every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | COMYU | Coffee Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 91.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | COMYU | Bitlever |
Customer experience
COMYU
Coffee Journal
In-app purchases
COMYU
No in-app purchases
Coffee Journal
- BeanBook Pro Monthly$7.901 Month
- BeanBook Pro1 Month trial$35.901 Year
- BeanBook Pro1 Month trial$49.901 Year
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