Comparison

Coffee Journal vs Olive!

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

Head to head
About

Coffee Journal

Log your coffee beans, track brewing parameters, and discover new recipes with AI assistance. This app helps you organize your coffee journey, from bean origin to tasting notes, and even generate recipes from web links.

Highlights
  • AI-powered coffee bean logging
  • Track grind settings and resting time
  • Organize beans with multiple views
  • Generate recipes from web links
  • Explore recipes from top baristas
  • Chat with a coffee expert AI
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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. - View, sort and filter each page from one menu next to search. - 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 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 list or grid view, 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

About

Olive!

Features
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Stop buying olive oil by the label. You can taste the difference between a good oil and a great one — Olive! shows you exactly why, turning your ratings into a sensory model of your own palate. WHY OLIVE!, NOT A FOOD APP Olive! is not a recipe app or a product catalogue. It does not store oils for you — it learns your taste. Wine has tools that read your palate; premium extra virgin olive oil has had none. Olive! fills that gap with data, not opinions. SCAN AND LOG • Scan any EVOO label — AI reads the label for producer, cultivar, region, DOP zone, harvest period, and tasting notes automatically • Cultivar and region read from body text, not just labelled fields • Log acidity, polyphenol content, harvest year, and certification when shown • Freshness alert: flags oils more than 18 months past harvest before they skew your data YOUR SENSORY FINGERPRINT • After 4 rated oils, your palate model unlocks • Five sensory bars — pungency, bitterness, fruit, body, complexity — ranked by what most divides your ratings, so the trait that decides your scores sits at the top • A headline intensity read (Delicate, Medium or Robust) derived from your highest-rated oils • Builds continuously as your collection grows WHAT YOUR DATA REVEALS • By cultivar: Picual vs Koroneiki vs Nocellara vs Arbequina — which olives you score highest • By origin: country, region, and DOP zone preferences derived from your ratings • By trait: where your palate sits on pungency and bitterness — the polyphenol signature you actually reward • Value analysis: highest quality per £/500ml across your collection BEST VALUE AND TOP RATED • Swipeable cards — top 3 by value, top 3 by rating • Price per 500ml normalised across bottle sizes • Metric (ml) and imperial (fl oz) — switch in Settings EXPLORE • 60-plus glossary entries across cultivar, origin, intensity, production, quality, certification, and concept • IOC sensory vocabulary in plain English — including why bitterness is a quality, not a fault PREMIUM • Your full sensory fingerprint — the five bars ranked, with the trait driving your palate called out • Full breakdowns by cultivar, origin, and trait with ranked data tables • Your palate archetype, written in plain language • Share your palate cards Premium is a subscription. A free trial, if offered, is shown at purchase. PRIVACY • Your data stays yours — no advertising, no data selling, no third-party profiling • Analytics and crash reporting can be turned off entirely in Settings Subscription Terms Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. Premium automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current billing period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period, at the price shown at time of purchase. Subscriptions can be managed and auto-renewal turned off in your App Store account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial, if offered, will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. Terms and policies: • Privacy Policy: https://ensoventures.org/olive/privacy/ • Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Coffee Journal4 screens
Olive!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Olive! at none against Coffee Journal's 4. Coffee Journal's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Coffee Journal sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.90 per month. Olive! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Coffee Journal ships an update every 5 days, Olive! every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Coffee Journal versus Olive!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoffee JournalOlive!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (30 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings30 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB74 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBitlever, LLCENSO Ventures S.a.r.l. - S

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Coffee Journal

Subscriptions4
  • BeanBook Pro Monthly$7.901 Month
  • BeanBook Pro1 Month trial$35.901 Year
  • BeanBook Pro1 Month trial$49.901 Year
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  • BeanBook Pro1 Year trial$49.901 Year
None

Olive!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Coffee Journal free?
Coffee Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Olive! free?
Olive! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Coffee Journal or Olive! have ads?
Neither Coffee Journal nor Olive! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Coffee Journal or Olive!?
Coffee Journal ships an update every 5 days, and Olive! every 2 months. Most recently, Coffee Journal was updated on October 25, 2026 and Olive! on October 12, 2026.

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