Brewly vs Blooming Grounds

Brew better coffee with guided timers, editable recipes, grinder settings, and a brew journal. Completely free, with no ads or subscriptions. Brewly helps you repeat the cups you love. Follow each brewing stage, adjust coffee and water, remember the exact grinder setting, then rate the result and add tasting notes. No account required. GUIDED BREWING • Step-by-step timers for pour-over, immersion, espresso, and cold brew • Clear pour, wait, bloom, and drawdown stages • Sound and haptic cues so you can focus on brewing • Scale recipes to match your serving size RECIPES YOUR WAY • Start with recipes for V60, Chemex, Kalita Wave, AeroPress, French press, Clever Dripper, espresso, and more • Create, edit, duplicate, search, filter, and sort recipes • Save dose, water, ratio, grind size, temperature, and custom stages • Share recipes as text or scannable QR codes DIAL IN EVERY CUP • Build a collection of your grinders • Save the grinder and exact setting used for each brew • Rate brews, add tasting tags and notes, and restart favorites from history MADE FOR DAILY USE • No ads, subscriptions, or in-app purchases • No account required • Light and dark modes • Celsius and Fahrenheit • Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese • Optimized for iPhone and iPad Brewly keeps the workflow simple: choose a recipe, set your dose, follow the timer, and learn from every cup.

Blooming Grounds — Coffee Bean Tracker Track every bean. Brew every cup with intention. Blooming Grounds is the pour-over companion built for coffee enthusiasts who care about what's in their cup. Log your beans, dial in your ratios, and let on-device AI help you get the most out of every roast — no account required, no third-party data sharing, ever. Brew Sessions Start a guided pour-over session from any bean. Blooming Grounds walks you through bloom, pouring, and drawdown phases with a live timer and water amounts tailored to your bean's ratio and coffee weight. Track your brew from the Lock Screen via Live Activity, at a glance from the Dynamic Island, or on your Apple Watch — which receives your session automatically and provides haptic feedback at each phase transition. Your Collection, Everywhere. Your bean collection syncs automatically across all your Apple devices through iCloud. Add a bean on your iPhone, brew with it on your iPad. Your data lives in your iCloud account — owned by you, protected by Apple. Now on iPad. Blooming Grounds features a native multi-column layout on iPad. Browse your collection in the sidebar, run the calculator in the center, and get AI-generated tasting notes and brew guides — all visible at once. Smarter On-Device AI. Tasting note suggestions, personalized brew guides, and bean recommendations are powered by Apple's FoundationModels framework. Brew guides are saved to each bean and automatically regenerate when you adjust your ratio or coffee amount. Your prompts and responses are processed entirely on your device and never transmitted to an external server. Siri and Shortcuts, Built In. Ask Siri to add a bean, calculate your pour over ratio, find your top-rated coffees, or open a specific bean — all without opening the app. Blooming Grounds is built on App Intents, which means every core action is available in Shortcuts, Spotlight, and the Action button. Core Features Log and organize your coffee bean collection with roast type, tasting notes, pour over ratio, and a personal rating. Each bean stores its own coffee weight, so switching between beans remembers your preferred dose. The built-in calculator gives you precise water measurements for any coffee weight and ratio. On-device AI suggests tasting notes and generates step-by-step brew guides tailored to each bean's roast level. Privacy. Your personal coffee data is stored in your own iCloud account and never sold or shared with third parties. AI features run entirely on-device. Blooming Grounds collects anonymous usage analytics to help improve the app — no personal information is included.