Cofy Cat vs Dial
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cofy Cat
Discover coffee recipes, follow guided timers, and organize your coffee beans and gear. This app helps you track brews, record tasting notes, and refine your coffee-making skills. Personalize your brewing experience with customizable settings and a user-friendly interface.
- Discover coffee recipes
- Guided brew timers with feedback
- Organize beans and gear
- Create and share custom recipes
- Track brew sessions and tasting notes
- Customizable brewing settings
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Make every brew feel calm, precise, and personal. Cofy Cat helps you discover coffee recipes, follow guided timers, organize your beans and gear, and keep track of what tastes best. DISCOVER RECIPES • Explore community-crafted recipes for V60, Chemex, AeroPress, French Press, Espresso, and more • Search, filter, and save favorites for quick access • Learn from tasting notes, method guides, region summaries, variety summaries, and buying tips BREW WITH CONFIDENCE • Follow step-by-step brew timers with sound and haptic feedback • Use clear pouring guidance, prep countdowns, and total brew-time tracking • Start a quick timer for spontaneous brews • Follow supported sessions from your Lock Screen with Live Activity in Cofy Cat Pro CREATE YOUR OWN RECIPES • Build recipes with ingredients, equipment, temperatures, ratios, and timed steps • Import and refine recipes with assisted workflows • Add photos, notes, and detailed brewing instructions • Edit, save, and share recipes with the Cofy Cat community ORGANIZE YOUR COFFEE • Track beans, grinders, devices, and tools in your pantry • Add items faster with scan-assisted prefill where available • See freshness guidance so your beans stay easy to manage • Record grinder settings and equipment used in each brew REVIEW AND IMPROVE • Save brew sessions, tasting notes, ratings, and cupping scores • Revisit your brew history with clearer details, graphs, and replay information • Use flavor guides and the flavor wheel to describe what you taste • Follow daily caffeine insights and widgets with Cofy Cat Pro MAKE IT YOURS • Choose grams or ounces, Celsius or Fahrenheit • Adjust sound, haptics, and preparation countdowns • Enjoy dark mode, localized content, and polished artwork throughout the app COFY CAT PRO Cofy Cat includes optional Cofy Cat Pro plans for deeper brewing tools. Pro unlocks Brew+, Live Activity, expanded pantry capacity, full brew history, richer insights, and more ways to follow your coffee routine. Whether you are brewing your first cup or refining a favorite recipe, Cofy Cat keeps your daily coffee ritual organized, friendly, and focused. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Cofy Cat Terms of Service: https://cofycat.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://cofycat.com/privacy-policy
Dial
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dial at none against Cofy Cat's 2. Cofy Cat's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Cofy Cat sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Dial asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cofy Cat ships an update every 5 days, Dial every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cofy Cat | Dial |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 211 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Cheng Chun Liu | Sixteen Grams Corporation |
In-app purchases
Cofy Cat
- Cofy Cat Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Cofy Cat Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
Dial
No in-app purchases









