Comparison

Brewly vs Coffee Notes

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

Coffee Notes

Features
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Coffee Notes is a simple, enjoyable, journal for your coffee brews. Photograph a bag and Coffee Notes reads the label for you :: name, roaster, origin, tasting notes.. Then log every brew: pick your method, run the built-in timer, rate the cup, and jot what you tasted. Already reviewed a brew but still want to keep track of how much coffee you're drinking? Long-hold a method to log a cup in one tap. Your Recap adds it all up — how many cups you’ve had, your go-to methods, your top roasts, and the origins you’ve explored. BUDDIES (optional): create a profile, share the brews you’re proud of, and follow friends to see what they’re drinking. Connect instantly with a QR code. • Automatic label reading from a photo • Per-bag brew logs with method, dose, time, grind, rating, and notes • A built-in brew timer • A gallery of your favorite mugs • A running Recap of your coffee habits • Optional social feed with follow, QR connect, and full privacy controls Your journal lives on your device. Sharing is always your choice, review by review.

Screenshots

Brewly4 screens
Coffee Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

Brewly and Coffee Notes are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Brewly versus Coffee Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrewlyCoffee Notes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJerome SommerfeldtJONATHON TIMOTHY MORTON

In-app purchases

None

Brewly

No in-app purchases

None

Coffee Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brewly free?
Brewly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Coffee Notes free?
Coffee Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Brewly or Coffee Notes have ads?
Neither Brewly nor Coffee Notes shows ads.

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