Comparison

Coffee DTR Timer vs CrackLog

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

Head to head
About

Coffee DTR Timer

This app helps coffee roasters time their roasts accurately. It allows users to input roaster, bean, and weight details, then track key stages like yellowing and first crack. The timer calculates development time, weight loss, and provides a roast summary for logging.

Highlights
  • Roast stage timing (Yellowing, First Crack, Drop)
  • Live Development Time (DTR) calculation
  • Weight loss calculation
  • Roast history logging
  • Favorite and delete roasts
  • Custom roaster and bean input
Features
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This simple coffee roast timer is used with your roaster of choice. Add your roaster name, bean name and green weight with units on the setup screen. On the timer screen hit start when you start your roast. Tap the Yellowing button when the beans start to turn yellow and the drying phase time is saved. Tap First Crack at the sound of first crack and the Maillard phase time is saved and live DTR is enabled allowing to dial in development time! Tap Drop/End and the development time along with DTR, maillard time, time to first crack and total roast time are shown to allow you to log your roast information. Add roasted weight and weight loss is calculated. Save roast will add to roast history and display the roast summary screen. On the history screen the user can favorite or delete roasts from the history.

About

CrackLog

Manually log coffee roasting details in real-time, including temperature, crack events, and fan/power adjustments. Visualize your roast curves and save batches as cards for easy comparison and future reference. Export your data for safekeeping.

Highlights
  • Real-time roast curve drawing
  • Manual temperature and crack logging
  • Fan and power adjustment tracking
  • Batch card collection
  • Side-by-side roast comparison
  • Data export and import
Features
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The moment you hear the crack, hit the big button once. A dot lands on your curve. Log time, temperature and first/second crack by hand and the roast curve draws itself in real time. Drop the beans and that batch becomes a card in your collection. No account, no server. Your logs live on this phone only. HOW IT WORKS • Charge: the timer starts at 0:00. • During the roast: log the temperature you see on your roaster as often as you like. The screen stays awake while the timer runs. • Crack: when you hear it, tap First Crack (then Second Crack). A dot is pinned to the curve at that second. Wrong tap? Undo it right there. • Drop: the timer stops, total time and DTR are worked out, and a batch card is made. TRY IT BEFORE YOU ROAST A 10-minute roast compressed into 30 seconds. Without a single green bean, tap the cracks yourself and feel the dot land. Demo batches stay out of your stats and overlays. MANUAL ON PURPOSE You write down the temperature you read on the roaster, and you tap the crack when you hear it. The app never picks a roast level for you and never scores your roast. It just keeps what happened, as it happened. DIALS, LOGGED IN THE MOMENT Every time you turn fan or power (1–9), one tap. It draws as a step line in its own lane on the curve and sits in a table on the card, so next time you roast the same bean you can follow "fan 7 at 3:20" exactly. Tap yellowing and end of first crack too, and your drying, Maillard and development ratios line up. Preheat and room temperature go in the batch details. WHAT'S ON A CARD • Time × temperature curve with first and second crack dots • Fan and power changes, yellowing and end-of-first-crack times • Bean, origin, charge weight, drop weight, yield, roaster used, preheat temp, room temp • Roast level (8 steps from Light to Italian, chosen by you) • A one-line roast note Browse your cards by bean or by roast level. No nagging to roast every day. No missions. SIDE BY SIDE WITH YOUR LAST BATCH Overlay the previous curve for the same bean as a ghost and compare as you roast. Tap "Roast again with these settings" on a card and the bean, charge weight, roaster and preheat temp are already filled in. ROASTER'S KIT (optional, one-time purchase) • Replay guide: start a roast with the same bean and the last batch's fan/power changes and crack times sit right beside the timer. • Multi-curve overlay: stack up to 3 earlier batches on one curve. Not a subscription. What's free today stays free. YOUR LOGS ARE YOURS Export every batch to a single file and import it back. Wipe everything at once from Settings. No account · no server · no internet for logging · no photo, mic or location access. No ads, no subscription. One optional lifetime purchase, handled by the App Store.

Screenshots

Coffee DTR Timer4 screens
CrackLog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Coffee DTR Timer at free against CrackLog's free with in-app purchases. Coffee DTR Timer also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs monthly). CrackLog's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.5). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Coffee DTR Timer ships an update every 9 days, CrackLog monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Coffee DTR Timer versus CrackLog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoffee DTR TimerCrackLog
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.516.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMike WhaleyKYUNGHWAN KIM

Customer experience

Coffee DTR Timer

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CrackLog

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Coffee DTR Timer

No in-app purchases

None

CrackLog

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Coffee DTR Timer free?
Coffee DTR Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CrackLog free?
CrackLog is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Coffee DTR Timer or CrackLog have ads?
Neither Coffee DTR Timer nor CrackLog shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Coffee DTR Timer or CrackLog?
Coffee DTR Timer ships an update every 9 days, and CrackLog monthly. Most recently, Coffee DTR Timer was updated on October 15, 2026 and CrackLog on October 14, 2026.

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