Comparison

CoffeeDrip vs Dial

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

Head to head
About

CoffeeDrip

Features
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CoffeeDrip is a timer for cold drip coffee. Tap a few drops and it tells you whether to open or close the valve. Cold drip takes hours, and the drip rate decides how it tastes. CoffeeDrip measures the rate from your last five taps and compares it with the target of 40 to 60 drops a minute. You get one clear instruction: close the valve slightly, open it slightly, or keep it where it is. AFTER THE BREW Tell CoffeeDrip how the coffee tasted: good, sour, bitter, watery or too strong. It tells you the one thing to change next time, whether that is the drip rate, the grind or the ratio. WHAT'S INSIDE โ€ข Timer: elapsed time, drip rate, and how much of the brew is left โ€ข Brew: set coffee and water, see the ratio, start the timer โ€ข Recipes: save the ratios that work and brew them again with one tap โ€ข Journal: every brew with its duration, drip rate and taste โ€ข Immersion: a ratio and fridge time calculator for immersion cold brew โ€ข A short guide to cold drip โ€ข Reminders when a brew is done โ€ข Light and dark themes โ€ข English and Turkish No account needed. Your recipes and journal stay on your device.

About

Dial

Features
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Every new bag of coffee is a puzzle. You spend the first third of the bag hunting for a grind setting, and by the time it tastes great, it may be almost gone. Dial is built to fix that. Brews on Dial are public, so when you open a new bag you can see how other people have brewed that same coffee: their grinder, grind setting, dose, ratio, recipe, and how it turned out. Start from a brew that worked instead of a guess. And if you're the first, you're the one who saves the next person the hunt. LOG YOUR BREWS Pour over, espresso, immersion: any method, any gear. Log the coffee, brewer, grinder, grind setting, dose, ratio, recipe, brew time, rating, and notes. Track TDS and extraction yield if you measure them, or hide those fields entirely. Use the built-in timer, or skip it. Dial never asks you to make up numbers just to fill a form. Dial remembers your history. Pick a coffee and the form fills itself from your most recent matching brew, down to the recipe. Adjust what changed, log, done. Made something great last week? Rebrew it in one tap. YOUR CELLAR Keep track of every bag you own: days off roast and how much is left, tracked automatically as you brew. Freeze a bag (or split one for the freezer) and Dial tracks freeze and thaw dates so days off roast stays honest. EXPLORE Browse recent brews, coffees, roasters, and people. Every coffee has its own page collecting the community's brews on it, and every page gets more useful as more brews come in. Can't find your coffee? Add it, and the next person who buys that bag starts from your work. PUBLIC BY DESIGN Openness is the point. Your brew logs help the next person dial in the coffee you just finished, and theirs help you. Everything you log is public and searchable from day one. NO NOISE, JUST BREWS No likes, no streaks. Everything Dial does serves the brew. Dial is built by one person who logs every single brew they make. Whether you're chasing a specific extraction or just want tomorrow's cup to be better than today's, Dial gives you a place to keep your brewing memory and a community to borrow from.

Screenshots

CoffeeDrip4 screens
Dial4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Dial at Free against CoffeeDrip's $1.99. CoffeeDrip's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Dial is free to download; CoffeeDrip costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CoffeeDrip ships an update weekly, Dial every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
CoffeeDrip versus Dial: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoffeeDripDial
Price$1.99Free โ€” better
Update frequencyWeekly โ€” betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size25 MB42 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTAHA EMIN AYTEKINSixteen Grams Corporation

In-app purchases

None

CoffeeDrip

No in-app purchases

None

Dial

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CoffeeDrip free?
CoffeeDrip costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dial free?
Dial is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CoffeeDrip or Dial have ads?
Neither CoffeeDrip nor Dial shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CoffeeDrip or Dial?
CoffeeDrip ships an update weekly, and Dial every 10 days. Most recently, CoffeeDrip was updated on November 5, 2026 and Dial on October 31, 2026.

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