BeanBase vs BeanCellar
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BeanBase
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BeanBase is an app thoughtfully designed for coffee lovers like you. It’s more than just a logging tool—it’s your intelligent companion for exploring, learning, and enjoying the world of coffee. Core Features: - Comprehensive Logging: Easily record every detail of your coffee beans—from origin, elevation, and variety to roaster, roast level, and processing method. - Precision Brewing Tracker: Keep track of your brewing sessions in detail, including equipment used, grind size, water temperature, brew time, final rating, and tasting notes. - Personalized Flavor Library: Capture the subtle flavors and textures of coffee to build your own tasting archive. - Data Visualization: Discover hidden patterns with intuitive charts that analyze your brewing data, bean preferences, and origin distribution. - Intelligent Identification: Simply take a picture of the coffee packaging and AI will automatically extract detailed information such as bean variety, origin, processing method, etc., making recording easy and fun. You no longer have to manually enter tedious coffee information. - Elegant Browsing: Enjoy your coffee bean collection like a gallery with a unique carousel view that showcases key details and photos at a glance. - Highly Customizable: Beyond recording, you can also manage your own origins, varieties, processing methods, roasters, and more—creating a database that truly reflects your coffee world. Whether you’re just stepping into the world of specialty coffee or you’re a seasoned enthusiast, BeanBase helps you systematically manage your coffee knowledge, enhance your tasting skills, and document every step of your coffee journey.
BeanCellar
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BeanCellar is a coffee journal and bean cellar built for people who want to understand what they brew, not just write it down. Keep an organized record of your coffee beans, roast dates, freshness stages, origins, processing methods, prices, flavor profiles, and notes. Plan pour-over and espresso brews with adjustable recipes, timers, dose, yield, temperature, grind size, and brew stages. After each brew, save ratings, tasting notes, taste issues, photos, TDS readings, and extraction yield. Compare beans or brew records side by side, review flavor and rating radar charts, and use stats to see how your brewing habits change over time. BeanCellar helps you answer practical questions: - Which beans tasted best? - How fresh is this coffee now? - What recipe did I use last time? - Did grind size, temperature, or ratio improve the cup? - Which beans and brew methods do I use most? Core features: - Bean cellar with roast date, freshness, origin, process, price, notes, and photos - Pour-over and espresso brew setup - Brew timer with custom recipes and brew stages - Tasting journal with ratings, notes, photos, and taste issue tags - TDS and extraction yield tracking - Bean and brew comparison views - Brewing stats and trends - Custom flavor labels, rating labels, process methods, and freshness ranges with BeanCellar Pro - Temperature and currency preferences - Light, dark, and system appearance modes BeanCellar is designed to be quiet, fast, and focused, so you can spend less time managing notes and more time improving your coffee. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: BeanBase at 18.0 against BeanCellar's 26. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. BeanBase sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and BeanCellar sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | BeanBase | BeanCellar |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 43 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 超 李 | 清源 欧阳 |
In-app purchases
BeanBase
- One-time Unlock$12.99
BeanCellar
- BeanCellar Pro Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- BeanCellar Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- BeanCellar Pro One-Time Purchase$19.99





