Comparison

Brewly vs FoodEntropy

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

Head to head
About

Brewly

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

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.

Screenshots

Brewly4 screens
FoodEntropy3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brewly at none against FoodEntropy's 1. Brewly also leads on ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and update cadence there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. FoodEntropy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Brewly asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brewly ships an update weekly, FoodEntropy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences Ā· 2 level
Brewly versus FoodEntropy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrewlyFoodEntropy
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJerome SommerfeldtPan shinren

In-app purchases

None

Brewly

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

FoodEntropy

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Brewly free?
Brewly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FoodEntropy free?
FoodEntropy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Brewly or FoodEntropy have ads?
FoodEntropy shows ads; Brewly does not.
Which is updated more often, Brewly or FoodEntropy?
Brewly ships an update weekly, and FoodEntropy every 4 days. Most recently, Brewly was updated on October 10, 2026 and FoodEntropy on October 12, 2026.

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