Comparison

grug vs Brewly Coffee

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

Head to head
About

grug

Receive a daily dose of simple, profound wisdom to help you navigate life's challenges. This app offers straightforward truths and accompanying artwork to inspire personal growth and contentment. It focuses on mindfulness and taking small steps each day.

Highlights
  • Daily wisdom sharing
  • Accompanying artwork
  • Home screen widget
  • Customizable themes
  • Light and dark modes
  • No login or tracking
Features
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grug know: big scary just many small rock wearing fur coat. every sunrise grug share one wisdom. help you break today rock into small piece. no fancy word. no complicated. just simple truth that work. **what grug do:** - share daily wisdom when sun rise - draw grug dream on wisdom - share with other grug - widget show wisdom on cave - grug work in light and dark cave or give grug shiny color grug not guru. grug just know: small step every day make mountain move. perfect never come. better start with broken stick today than wait for perfect stick tomorrow. wisdom come from real life. fear work love pain growth. grug speak simple but truth hit deep. like "fear just smoke. real but not solid.” and "wanting make poor. grateful make rich." each day different wisdom. truth waiting. grug help see: you already enough. just need pick up one small rock today. app simple like grug brain. open. read wisdom. maybe draw feeling. that all. no login. no cloud. no follow. just you and today truth. remember. tomorrow not here. only today real. grug help make today count. Terms of Service: https://ocho.so/terms Privacy Policy: https://ocho.so/privacy

About

Brewly Coffee

Log your coffee experiences, discover new beans and roasters, and connect with a community of coffee lovers. Capture your coffee journey with personalized ratings, notes, and photos to elevate your daily brew.

Highlights
  • Log coffee cups with ratings and notes
  • Track beans and roasters
  • Discover new coffee and roasters
  • Community insights and trending coffees
  • Simple and clean design
Features
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Brewly helps you remember every great cup, dial in better brews, and discover what to drink next. Log your coffee in seconds, keep track of the beans and recipes you love, and build a history of your taste over time. Whether you’re making your first pour-over or obsessing over the last few seconds of an espresso shot, Brewly gives you one place for everything you drink and brew. FEATURES Log a coffee in seconds Snap a photo of your bag and Brewly’s smart recognition fills in the bean details for you. Add your rating, tasting notes, photos, and brew details without turning coffee into homework. Dial in every brew Track your brew method, dose, water, temperature, time, and more. Compare past brews, repeat the ones that worked, and keep refining your perfect cup. Discover your next favorite coffee Explore highly rated beans and roasters, see what other coffee drinkers are brewing, and find something new worth trying. Build your coffee library Every bean and brew you log is saved to your personal library, complete with ratings, notes, recipes, and photos. Your entire coffee history, always there when you want it. Save what catches your eye Keep track of beans, roasters, and cafés you want to try so the coffee you meant to remember doesn’t disappear into another screenshot or browser tab. Find great coffee around you Explore saved cafés and coffee spots on the map and find something worth drinking wherever you are. See what your friends are brewing Follow friends and other coffee lovers, see what they’re drinking, and like or comment on their latest cups. Build your coffee passport Watch your coffee history grow across roasters, cafés, origins, and places. Brewly turns every cup into part of a record that’s uniquely yours. From the bag you can’t stop buying to the espresso recipe you finally nailed, Brewly helps you remember what worked, discover what’s next, and make every cup a little better.

Screenshots

grug4 screens
Brewly Coffee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: grug at 3.4K against Brewly Coffee's 5. grug also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Brewly Coffee holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: grug has 3.4K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of grug's written reviews are positive against 100% of Brewly Coffee's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

grug ships an update weekly, Brewly Coffee monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
grug versus Brewly Coffee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametergrugBrewly Coffee
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.4K ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.4K — better5
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB41 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperOchoNapeague, LLC

Customer experience

grug

All ratings3,363 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.8%
Negative1.6%
Written reviews679 reviews
Positive96.3%
Neutral1.8%
Negative1.9%

Brewly Coffee

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

grug

No in-app purchases

None

Brewly Coffee

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is grug free?
grug is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brewly Coffee free?
Brewly Coffee is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, grug or Brewly Coffee?
Brewly Coffee is rated higher. grug averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.4K ratings, while Brewly Coffee averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do grug or Brewly Coffee have ads?
Neither grug nor Brewly Coffee shows ads.
Which is updated more often, grug or Brewly Coffee?
grug ships an update weekly, and Brewly Coffee monthly. Most recently, grug was updated on October 31, 2026 and Brewly Coffee on October 5, 2026.

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