Comparison

Cupnote vs Bloom Session

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

Head to head
About

Cupnote

Features
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Introducing Cupnote, the ultimate app designed to transform your coffee cupping experience. Coffee cupping can be a delightful journey into the world of exquisite flavors, but it often comes with its set of challenges. Juggling between a spittoon cup, a cupping spoon, paper, and a clipboard for scoring, while trying to neatly document every aspect of the coffee, can detract from the joy of cupping. Have you ever struggled to recall a note or ponder over what aspects to focus on during tasting? Or worse, lost your painstakingly taken notes? Cupnote is here to alleviate those hassles. With Cupnote, you can: Ditch the clipboard and pen. Our app allows for one-handed input on your phone, making it easier to manage everything else you need to handle. Quickly access flavor notes and easily input your findings, even in the midst of a bustling cupping session. Customize evaluation criteria for public cuppings, ensuring that everyone can record what's important to them. Safely store and neatly organize your notes for easy retrieval and review. Features: Create and evaluate using custom cupping forms, ranging from simple checks to specialized SCA and CoE formats. Build your own sensory note groups and expand your notes as you wish. Perform analyses that were impossible on paper. Visualize and compare cupping results for insightful analysis. Utilize Cupnote in various settings - from tasting coffee in different locations to enhancing quality control in roasteries with custom QC forms. These can later integrate with Firescope, turning into valuable assets for roasteries. Cafes can use Cupnote as a communication tool with baristas or supplier roasteries to maintain consistency in coffee flavors. Coffee education and study groups can benefit from our app too. It’s designed to make sensory note association easy for everyone, allowing users to progressively refine cupping forms to suit their objectives. Cupnote is not just an app; it's a revolution in coffee cupping, making the entire process more efficient, enjoyable, and insightful. Whether you're a professional roaster, a barista, or simply a coffee enthusiast, Cupnote is your go-to companion for all things cupping. Say goodbye to the clutter and hello to streamlined, insightful coffee tasting with Cupnote.

About

Bloom Session

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The definitive specialty coffee archive crafted for your perfect cup. From tracking bean degassing to fully customizing recipes and equipment, logging WCR-standard sensory notes, and exploring lifestyle statistics—enjoy a focused, distraction-free brewing experience. Smart Bean Management • Full Support for Single Origins & Blends: Manage detailed coffee bean profiles, including origin, processing method, roastery, and variety. • Degassing Tracker: Automatically monitor and track the peak flavor window based on the roast date. Precision Brewing Sessions • Seamless Environmental Tracking: Automatically record environmental factors alongside beans and recipes, including location, weather, temperature, and humidity. • Aesthetic Share Cards: Generate and share your brewing records as sleek, beautifully designed card images. Global Standard Sensory Logging • WCR Lexicon 2.0 Standard: Systematically log professional flavor notes based on the World Coffee Research (WCR) Sensory Lexicon Version 2.0. • Comprehensive Cup Evaluation: Combine star ratings with sensory descriptors to archive cup quality and your evolving personal taste. Custom Recipe & Equipment Builder • Unlimited Recipe Customization: Brew with curated default recipes or create, customize, and edit your own from scratch. • Flexible Gear Profiling: Register your drippers, filters, grinders, grind settings, and accessories, matching them seamlessly to individual recipes. • Precision Step-by-Step Pour Planning: Fine-tune dose, water volume, brew ratio, water temperature, total brew time, and specific parameters for each pouring stage. Data-Driven Taste Insights • Comprehensive Dashboard: Visualize bean consumption patterns, brewing frequency, and flavor profile distributions at a glance. • Lifestyle Insights: Track how your daily coffee rituals and sensory preferences evolve through data. Pure Experience • No in-app purchases, paid subscriptions, or ads—just a completely pure, transparent, and distraction-free logging space. • Data is stored in your device or iCloud. • Sync with iCloud seamlessly.

Screenshots

Cupnote3 screens
Bloom Session4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cupnote at 13.0 against Bloom Session's 26.0. On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cupnote ships an update fortnightly, Bloom Session every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Cupnote versus Bloom Session: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCupnoteBloom Session
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB45 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJin Tae KyuHeeChan Jeong

In-app purchases

None

Cupnote

No in-app purchases

None

Bloom Session

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cupnote free?
Cupnote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bloom Session free?
Bloom Session is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cupnote or Bloom Session have ads?
Neither Cupnote nor Bloom Session shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cupnote or Bloom Session?
Cupnote ships an update fortnightly, and Bloom Session every 10 days. Most recently, Cupnote was updated on September 30, 2026 and Bloom Session on October 29, 2026.

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