Comparison

PrecisionBrew vs CoffeeLog

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

Head to head
About

PrecisionBrew

Features
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PrecisionBrew is a brew journal for people who taste the difference. Log what you did, rate what came out, and let the app show you which settings made your best cup. LOG THE WHOLE RECIPE Bean, method, dose, grind size, water, yield, temperature and brew time. Brewing ratio and beverage ratio calculate themselves as you type. Espresso gets its own fields for pre-infusion and pressure stability. Then rate the result: overall stars plus acidity, body and sweetness, with room for flavor notes, aroma and anything else worth remembering. Six brewing methods are ready to go: Espresso, Pour Over, French Press, AeroPress, Moka Pot and Cold Brew. Add your own in a couple of taps. KNOW WHAT IS IN THE BAG Every bean gets an origin, altitude, roaster, roast level and roast date. A freshness badge tells you at a glance whether it is still resting, in the window, or past its peak. Add the bag weight and the app subtracts every dose you brew, so you know how many grams are left and when you are running low. SEE WHICH SETTINGS ACTUALLY WON Once you have a few brews logged, the journal shows your totals: how many brews, your top bean, your favorite method, your average rating, and how your ratings have moved over time. Open any bean and the dial-in charts plot your rating against grind size, dose and brew time, so the combination that keeps scoring highest is impossible to miss. BREW IT AGAIN Found a winner? One tap opens a new brew already filled in with those settings, ready to tweak. Search the journal by bean, method, notes or aroma, and filter by bean, method, date or minimum rating when the history gets long. A TIMER THAT KEEPS COUNTING Time your pour without leaving the app. The timer stays accurate when you lock the screen or switch away, and when you stop it, one tap logs the brew with the time already filled in. YOURS, THE WAY YOU WORK Grams or ounces. Celsius or Fahrenheit. Light, dark, or follow the system. Text scales with your preferred size across the whole app. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account and no sign-up. There are no ads and no tracking. There is no third-party code in the app at all, and the app never connects to the internet, because there is nothing to send anywhere. Every bean and every brew lives on your iPhone and travels with your normal device backup. Nothing is collected, because there is no server to collect it. Log a brew, then another, and let the numbers tell you what your palate already suspects.

About

CoffeeLog

Features
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CoffeeLog is a personal journal for everyone who wants to remember the coffees they drink and understand what they actually enjoy. YOUR COFFEE COLLECTION Every bag you try goes into your collection โ€” roaster, origin, region, process, varietal, altitude, roast level, flavor notes and more. Over time your collection becomes a record of your taste: the origins you return to, the processes that click with you, the roasters worth following. LOG EVERY BREW Pair each coffee with your brew notes. Record the method, recipe, water temperature, grind size and your personal rating. When you find a combination that works, it's there to repeat. When something falls flat, you'll know why. EFFORTLESS TO ADD Point your camera at a coffee bag label and CoffeeLog reads it for you โ€” filling in the details automatically so you can spend less time typing and more time drinking. Review, confirm, and it's in your collection. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your journal lives on your device. No account to create, no subscription, no data sent anywhere. If you want to access your collection on another Apple device, optional iCloud sync moves everything through your own iCloud account โ€” nobody else sees it. โ€ข Personal coffee collection with full bag details โ€ข Brew sessions with recipe, method and rating โ€ข Scan bag labels to add coffees without typing โ€ข Rate and add tasting notes to track what you enjoy โ€ข Insights into your taste over time โ€ข Optional iCloud sync โ€” your data, your account โ€ข No account, no subscription, no ads

Screenshots

PrecisionBrew4 screens
CoffeeLog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: CoffeeLog at 15.5 against PrecisionBrew's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
PrecisionBrew versus CoffeeLog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPrecisionBrewCoffeeLog
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS26.015.5 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB116 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperActive Design Lab S.R.L.Pawel Michalak

In-app purchases

None

PrecisionBrew

No in-app purchases

None

CoffeeLog

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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