Cofy Cat vs Cold Brew Studio
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cofy Cat
This app guides users through the coffee brewing process with curated recipes and precision timers. Users can create, share, and discover new brews from a global community. It offers a personalized experience with customizable settings and offline access.
- Curated coffee recipes
- Precision brew timer
- Recipe builder and sharing
- Personalized settings
- Offline recipe access
- Community recipe discovery
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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
Cold Brew Studio
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Cold brew is forgiving right up until it isn't. A setting that tastes great on one grinder turns to sludge on another, and the batch you nailed last month is a guess by the time you open a new bag. Cold Brew Studio is a digital studio for the gear on your counter. Tell it what you grind with and what you brew in, and it works out the recipe for your exact setup. Then it helps you dial in every bean you buy. YOUR SETUP ON ONE SCREEN Brew shows your grinder's dial with the setting marked, the grams of coffee and milliliters of water for your batch, how many cups it makes, and your bag of beans standing next to your brewer. Tap the dial, the bag or the brewer to change it. When it looks right, hit Start steeping. 80+ GRINDERS, RESEARCHED AND DRAWN More than 80 of the most popular grinders were researched and drawn, giving you a full digital studio for your gear. Each one wears its real dial, whether yours has a knob that turns or a numbered ring that rotates past a mark. The cold brew setting starts from the manufacturer's guidance and what the coffee community has worked out. Found your own sweet spot? Drag the dial to where you actually dialed in and the recipe follows. Using something rarer? Add it as your own grinder. SIZED TO WHAT YOU BREW IN Nineteen brewers are built in, from a quart mason jar up to a gallon dispenser, and you can add your own by its capacity. Every batch is sized to what your brewer actually holds. Pick a strength: Everyday, Strong, Jet fuel or Concentrate. If your brewer came with its own recipe, that's on the list too. ANY BEAN, READY TO GO Search more than 300 beans from specialty roasters, or scan the label on your bag and the app fills in the bean for you. KNOW WHEN IT'S READY Start steeping and watch your brewer darken hour by hour. The batch lives on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, with a notification when it's ready to taste and another before it steeps too long. Ask Siri what's steeping, or start a batch by voice. DIAL IN EVERY BEAN Rate each batch and tap what was off, like too weak or too bitter, and the next recipe adjusts. Every bean you brew gets a bag on your shelf, with your rating on the plank below it. Tap a bag for its field notes: your tasting notes next to what the bag promised, with every brew of that bean underneath. Once a bean is dialed in, its best recipe is one tap from brewing again. YOURS Your journal lives on your device, and you never need an account. If you want one, it syncs your journal between your iPhone and the web app at coldbrew.studio. There are no ads or trackers, and your data is never sold. Brew something worth waiting for.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cold Brew Studio at none against Cofy Cat's 2. Cofy Cat's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.5 vs 26.0). 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. Cold Brew Studio asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cofy Cat ships an update every 5 days, Cold Brew Studio every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cofy Cat | Cold Brew Studio |
|---|---|---|
| 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 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cheng Chun Liu | Kineema Labs LLC |
In-app purchases
Cofy Cat
- Cofy Cat Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Cofy Cat Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
Cold Brew Studio
No in-app purchases









