Coffee Journal vs FoodEntropy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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. - 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
FoodEntropy
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FoodEntropy helps you track the expiry date of everything in your fridge and pantry, and reminds you the morning it's due — so food gets eaten at its best and nothing is forgotten. FEATURES • Home at a glance: a stack of cards — current status, waste stats, and three buckets for expired, due within three days, and still fresh — each with a count and the money on the line. Tap a bucket to open its list. • Quick entry: add a name, purchase and expiry date, with an optional photo from your camera or library. • See expiry at a glance: items are sorted by due date, color-coded red / amber / green for Expired / Within 3 days / Fresh, and show the price you recorded. • Home screen widget: see what's about to expire — and how much money is at stake — without opening the app. • iPhone Duo: unfold it and hold it sideways, and Settings sits next to your cards. On the outer screen it works like any iPhone. • Expiry reminders: a local notification the morning an item is due, so nothing slips by. • Shortcuts, Siri and Spotlight: add an item, mark it used or discarded, extend a date, or find food from Spotlight, all without opening the app. • Waste insights: see your current breakdown and a rolling 30-day waste rate in clear charts. • Track what you spend (optional): add a price and the home screen shows the value of food about to expire — what's at stake while there's still time to eat it. Waste stats include the value of discarded items too. • Flexible actions: extend an item's date, mark it used, discarded, or delete it. • iCloud sync (optional): off by default; turn it on to back up to your own private iCloud so your data survives a new phone. • Dark mode, English and Traditional Chinese. PRIVACY: No account, no server of ours. Your data and photos stay on your device; only if you enable iCloud sync are they backed up to your own private iCloud (which the developer can't access). Free to use, with a one-time purchase to remove ads. Waste less food — starting with remembering to eat it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Coffee Journal at none against FoodEntropy's shown. Coffee Journal also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases 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 and FoodEntropy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Coffee Journal ships an update every 5 days, FoodEntropy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Coffee Journal | FoodEntropy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (30 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bitlever | Pan shinren |
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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- BeanBook Pro1 Year trial$49.901 Year
FoodEntropy
- Remove Ads$1.99









