Brewly vs Coffee Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brewly
Master your coffee brewing with guided timers, customizable recipes, and a detailed journal. Track grinder settings, rate your brews, and easily replicate your favorite cups. No ads, subscriptions, or accounts needed.
- Guided brewing timers
- Editable coffee recipes
- Grinder setting tracking
- Brew journal and history
- Recipe sharing
- Light and dark modes
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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.
Coffee Diary
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Coffee Diary ist dein digitales Bezugs-Tagebuch für Zuhause-Baristas und Espresso-Enthusiasten. Erfasse jeden Shot und jeden Filterbezug mit Dosis, Extraktionsmenge, Zeit, Mahlgrad, Bewertung und Notizen. Verknüpfe Bohnen, Mühle, Maschine und Brühgerät – und finde so schneller zu deinem perfekten Setup. WAS DU MIT COFFEE DIARY MACHST • Bezüge festhalten – Espresso und Filter, geführt oder per Schnellformular • Ausrüstung verwalten – Bohnen, Mühlen, Maschinen, Brühgeräte inkl. Fotos • Statistik & Trends – KPIs, Zeiträume, Verhältnis-Stabilität, Mahlgrad-Analyse • Coffee Station – aktive Maschine und Mühle immer im Blick • Dial-in-Hilfe – Tipps aus deinen letzten Bezügen • Optional Wetter-Kontext – Temperatur und Luftfeuchtigkeit zum Bezug speichern SYNC & DATEN • Daten bleiben auf deinem Gerät (SwiftData) • Optional Synchronisation über dein persönliches iCloud-Konto – ideal für iPhone und iPad • Export als JSON oder CSV aus den Einstellungen Coffee Diary ist ohne Werbung, ohne Tracking und ohne Konto-Pflicht. Deine Daten gehören dir. Support: https://Yannik2y.github.io/CoffeeDiary/support Datenschutz: https://Yannik2y.github.io/CoffeeDiary/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brewly at none against Coffee Diary's 4. Brewly also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, 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 Diary sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Brewly asks for nothing beyond the download.
Brewly ships an update every 8 days, Coffee Diary every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brewly | Coffee Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 41 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jerome Sommerfeldt | Yannik Chlechowitz |
In-app purchases
Brewly
No in-app purchases
Coffee Diary
- Espresso$0.99
- Double espresso$2.99
- Coffee & cake$3.99
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