Comparison

Brewly vs Potari

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Guided brewing timers
  • Editable coffee recipes
  • Grinder setting tracking
  • Brew journal and history
  • Recipe sharing
  • Light and dark modes
Features
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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.

About

Potari

Features
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Potari is a precision coffee tracker and recipe logbook built specifically for pour-over enthusiasts. Whether you are dialing in a new single-origin bean or perfecting your daily V60 routine, Potari helps you track every variable to achieve the perfect extraction. There is no clutter, no bloated social feeds, and no marketing fluff—just a clean, barista-grade tool designed to stay out of your way while you brew. Precision Brew Log Log your exact coffee dose, water weight, brew time, temperature, and grind size. Build a personal database of your daily brews. Recipe Branching Treat your brewing like version control. Create precise variations from a base recipe to systematically test how micro-adjustments impact the final cup. Flavor Mapping Visualize your tasting notes on a clean radar chart. Score your brews across Acidity, Sweetness, Body, Balance, and Finish to find the perfect profile. Coffee Crews Connect with friends, sync live pour histories, and share coffee recipes instantly. Zero onboarding hurdles, no accounts, and no passwords required. Minimalist Interface A high-contrast, premium aesthetic built for speed and utility. Dark mode ready and designed for fast data entry at the brew bar.

Screenshots

Brewly4 screens
Potari4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Brewly at none against Potari's shown. Brewly also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brewly ships an update every 8 days, Potari every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Brewly versus Potari: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrewlyPotari
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.5
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB98 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJerome SommerfeldtRolling Pig Studio

In-app purchases

None

Brewly

No in-app purchases

None

Potari

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brewly free?
Brewly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Potari free?
Potari is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Brewly or Potari have ads?
Potari shows ads; Brewly does not.
Which is updated more often, Brewly or Potari?
Brewly ships an update every 8 days, and Potari every 3 weeks. Most recently, Brewly was updated on November 4, 2026 and Potari on October 31, 2026.

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