Beanchive vs DOSE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beanchive
Record and organize your coffee experiences, noting satisfaction, flavors, and atmosphere. Capture memories with photos and manage detailed bean information like origin and roast profiles. Sync your data across devices with a cloud account to build a personal coffee archive.
- Record satisfaction, flavors, place, and atmosphere
- Capture coffee moments with photos
- Manage bean processing, origin, and roast profiles
- Connect tasting notes to understand preferences
- Cloud-synced account for multi-device access
- Organize and save coffee logs
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Don’t miss the moment of a great cup of coffee. Beanchive helps you record every coffee experience and build your personal journey of taste. Tasting Notes • Easily record satisfaction level, flavors, place, and atmosphere • Capture vivid memories with photos of your coffee moments Bean Information Management • Keep detailed records of processing methods, origins, and roast profiles • Connect with your tasting notes to better understand your coffee preferences Cloud-Synced Account • Access your records from multiple devices with a single account • Keep your valuable coffee logs safe and organized anytime, anywhere With Beanchive, turn each coffee you enjoy into a memorable, meaningful log. Start building your own coffee archive today.
DOSE
Analyze your coffee grind size with just a photo, using anything from a napkin to a kitchen towel. Get detailed particle distribution data and brew-method guidance to improve your coffee.
- Photo-based grind analysis
- Particle distribution metrics
- Brew-method recommendations
- AI Barista insights
- Save and share analysis
- Grind history comparison
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DOSE analyzes your coffee grind size from a single photo. Even a kitchen towel or napkin works perfectly. Measure your grind at home or at the café in seconds. ■ Measuring is simple • Spread the grounds Scatter your ground coffee evenly over a sheet of paper, a napkin, or a kitchen towel. • Find good light Natural light or bright indoor lighting is all you need. Just avoid harsh shadows. • Set distance and angle Follow the on-screen guide: hold the camera about 18–24 cm away and parallel to the surface. • Capture Center the grounds in the frame and take one shot. That's it. ■ What you'll learn • Particle distribution See D10 (small) · D50 (median) · D90 (large), mean, fines ratio, uniformity, and more — alongside a distribution histogram. • Brew-method guidance Get advice on grinding finer or coarser for espresso, pour-over, French press, and other methods. • AI Barista insights (on supported devices, iOS 26+) Reads your results and suggests how to dial in your next cup. • Save and share Save your analysis card as an image and share it. ■ What's coming • Compare your history Line up your saved measurements to track how grind size shifts with each grinder setting — and how consistent it stays. ■ Made for • Home brewers who want more consistent extractions • Anyone dialing in a new grinder by the numbers • People who want to tell espresso and filter grinds apart precisely • Baristas who want to check grind uniformity and fines firsthand Taste the difference in every cup — backed by data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Beanchive at 13.0 against DOSE's 18.2. On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Beanchive | DOSE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sungbae Lee | SeungHo Choi |
Customer experience
Beanchive
DOSE
In-app purchases
Beanchive
No in-app purchases
DOSE
No in-app purchases








