EspressoLog vs Cafey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EspressoLog
Record and analyze your espresso shots to perfect your brewing. Track key metrics like dose, yield, and time, alongside tasting notes to refine flavor balance. Manage your beans and machines in a minimalist interface designed for home baristas.
- Log dose, yield, ratio, time, temperature
- Track tasting notes (acidity, body, aftertaste)
- Manage coffee beans
- Manage coffee machines
- Analyze extraction data
- Improve brewing consistency
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Dialing in a new coffee often means starting from scratch. After several test shots you finally find a recipe that tastes great — but weeks later, brewing the same coffee again, it's easy to forget what worked. EspressoLog helps you capture the recipes and tasting notes behind your best shots, so you can recreate them with confidence. Log dose, yield, ratio, shot time, temperature, and — for lever and pressure-profiling machines — peak pressure for every espresso. Rate acidity, sweetness, bitterness, body, and aftertaste to see how each change in the recipe shows up in the cup. Manage your coffees with roast details, freshness tracking, and flavor notes. Keep your machines and grinders on file, and see exactly what equipment was behind each shot. Two coaches are a tap away. The on-device Quick coach reads every shot the moment you save it, no connection needed. For a fuller read, ask the Head barista AI — it goes through what you logged: the recipe, how it tasted, your notes, the bean and how long it's been off roast, your machine and grinder, and your earlier shots on that bean. It answers in plain language with its own verdict and up to three things to try next, and that verdict shows on the shot, marked as the AI's. Either way, it's a suggestion, not a ruling. Your cup is still the last word. Share a shot as a photo, a short video, or plain text with every parameter, tool, and tasting note — ready to paste into a message or a note. Everything you log stays on your device, with no account to create and no cloud backup to manage. The one exception is the Head barista AI: asking it sends that shot's details to our server to write the read. Nothing is sent unless you tap the button, and photos never are. To move to a new phone or keep a copy, export your shots, beans, machines, and photos from Settings as one file and import it anywhere; videos aren't included, and the file goes nowhere unless you share it. Designed for home baristas who want more consistent espresso, faster dial-ins, and better coffee in every cup.
Cafey
Discover nearby cafes and explore their drink menus. Get personalized recommendations based on your preferences and save places to try. Review individual drinks with photos and scores to share with other coffee enthusiasts.
- Find nearby cafes and drinks
- Browse cafe details and menus
- Personalized cafe matches
- Save places to try
- Review individual drinks
- Share feedback with users
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Cafey makes it easier to decide where to go and what to order. Explore cafés near you, browse drinks, and narrow results by location, flavor, and vibe. If you’re not sure where to start, use Matches to discover options based on what you actually enjoy. With Cafey, you can: • Find cafés and drinks nearby • Browse café details, menus, directions, ratings, and reviews • Get personalized café matches • Save places you want to try • Review individual drinks with photos, an overall score, quick ratings, and tags • Share useful feedback with other café lovers Cafey is still growing, so some café or menu information may occasionally be incomplete. If you spot something that needs attention, you can send a suggestion from the app. Whether you’re looking for matcha, coffee, boba, or somewhere new to spend the afternoon, Cafey helps you find a place worth trying.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cafey at every 4 days against EspressoLog's every 3 weeks. Cafey also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). EspressoLog's advantage is ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Cafey holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: EspressoLog has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
EspressoLog ships an update every 3 weeks, Cafey every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EspressoLog | Cafey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 189 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Kate Lee | JEROME EDWARD PANGAN MANARANG |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
EspressoLog
No in-app purchases
Cafey
No in-app purchases









