Coffee Note | Memory Journal vs OLLA Brew Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Coffee Note | Memory Journal
Capture and revisit cherished moments spent with coffee. Log your favorite brews, moods, and daily events in a beautifully designed, intuitive journal. Preserve memories and find joy in your daily coffee rituals.
- Register favorite coffees
- Log time spent with coffee
- Record mood and daily events
- Beautiful and intuitive UI
- Customizable themes and fonts (Premium)
- Data import and export (Premium)
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Record moments spent with coffee. Coffee Note helps you capture memories with your coffee. Your favorite coffee, your mood, casual moments - record freely in your own way and revisit them anytime. ■ Perfect For ・Coffee lovers who cherish their daily cup ・Those wanting to preserve coffee moments as memories ・Recording mood and daily events alongside coffee ・Preferring simple logging over complex forms ・Revisiting past coffee times and feeling nostalgic ・Seeking a beautiful, motivating app design ■ Key Features 【Coffee Management】 Register your favorite coffees with just a title and notes. Write freely about where you bought it, when you drink it, aroma, and flavor impressions. 【Time Logs】 Record time spent with coffee. Date, coffee selection, and notes - that's it. Write about your mood, events, seasonal changes, thoughts while drinking - whatever you want, however you want. 【Beautiful Design】 Refined UI that makes your coffee time more special. Intuitive interface you can use from day one. 【Customization (Premium)】 Customize themes and fonts to make the app uniquely yours. 【Data Management (Premium)】 Import and export features keep your records safe. Peace of mind for device changes and backups. ■ How It Works 1. Register Coffee Coffees Add your favorite coffees. Just a title is fine, or add detailed notes. 2. Log Your Brews After brewing, select the date and coffee, then record whatever you want. 3. Review Past Logs "What coffee was I drinking back then?" Look back at records and immerse yourself in memories. 4. Develop Your Style Discover your own recording style as you use the app. ■ Use Cases 【Weekend Morning Coffee】 "Drank it slowly by the window. A peaceful morning." Record relaxed time with coffee. 【Before Work】 "Even on busy mornings, this cup calms me down." Capture small daily happiness. 【Gift from a Friend】 "Birthday coffee. Reminds me of my friend every time I drink it." Record special coffee and its memories. 【Seasonal Changes】 "Suddenly cold morning. Warm coffee really hits the spot. Winter is here." Record coffee time with changing seasons. 【Weekend Relaxation】 "With my half-read book. Time flows slowly." Preserve casual happy moments. ■ Why Coffee Note? 【Simplicity】 No complex fields. Only what's truly necessary. No restrictive formats means freedom to record your way. 【Freedom】 Favorite coffee, café coffee, gifted coffee - track any style. Write about mood, events, thoughts - anything. 【Intuitive】 Know exactly what to enter from day one. Simple, no-confusion design. 【Sustainable】 The most important thing for any tracking app is "keeping it up." Filling complex fields is tedious. Coffee Note has minimal required fields. Write what you want, freely. That's why it's sustainable. ■ Developer's Message I created this app with the desire to build something "I'd want to open every morning." Not just the moment of drinking coffee, but your mood, events, seasonal changes - the time spent with coffee itself becomes precious memories. That's why I made it simple and free from restrictive formats. May you preserve your memories with coffee through Coffee Note. May your morning coffee time become even more special. ■ Premium Plan Basic features are free. Premium adds: ・Theme & Font Customization ・Data Import & Export *See in-app for details. ■ Contact For questions or bug reports, use the in-app Feedback feature. ■ Terms & Privacy Terms: https://szkyudi.notion.site/2d63a5e38ec48005b117f58ae35fd4cb Privacy: https://szkyudi.notion.site/2d63a5e38ec480cbb035c2ba29673c57
OLLA Brew Lab
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OLLA Brew Lab is a coffee workbench for iPhone and iPad that keeps roast curves, brew logs and cupping records in one place. It is made for home roasters, specialty coffee enthusiasts and small roasters. Bean cards, brew logs and cuppings are free. In Roast to Cup, the roastery workbench for curves, roast profiles and inventory, the design workbench opens free; adding and delivering are OLLA Pro. ROAST CURVES (OLLA PRO) Log a roast live with large buttons for charge, yellowing, first crack and drop; development ratio and weight loss follow from what you record. Replay any curve, compare batches, and set a batch as your baseline. Import curve files in 11 formats; the source is detected from the file itself. ROAST PROFILES: DESIGN BEFORE YOU CHARGE Free: dial targets for first crack, drop and development ratio, and read the projected first-crack window, drop temperature and development ratio, with no machine connection. With OLLA Pro, save a design to the curve library, start a roast from it, or export it as .alog, JSON or CSV. YOUR BEAN LIBRARY One card per bag: origin, variety, process, estate, altitude, roast level, roast date, purchase details and your own notes. Resting and drinking windows count down on their own; a Home Screen widget shows a pinned bean. Photograph a label, a bean list or a cafe menu and OLLA reads it on device, showing the words each field came from; nothing is saved until you confirm. On supported devices, Apple Intelligence fills gaps, corrects misreadings and adds explanations and translation in three languages, all on device. The Coffee Codex holds 1,700+ cross-linked entries, from origins and varieties to processing and brewing. BREW LOG Record dose, grind, water temperature, ratio, TDS, extraction yield, timing and sensory impressions. The Tools tab sits alongside, with a step-recipe brew timer, an extraction-yield calculator and brewing-water recipes. CUPPING Score on a classic ten-attribute sheet, or use sensory scoring: cup profile, quality impression and five-cup consistency. Describe flavor with 16 everyday words or the full flavor wheel, and export a cupping sheet as a PDF. OLLA Pro adds multi-sample blind assessment, with cup-by-cup records and a five-class verdict from L5 to L1. FIELD GUIDE City coffee guides, one volume per city, readable offline. Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Fukuoka are published; the other cities on the city bar are marked Planned. Each list is selected from public data by OLLA's own scoring. COFFEE JOURNAL Beans, brews, cuppings and roasts stay linked, gathered in one archive with search, filters and yearly stats. HOW PEOPLE USE OLLA · A home roaster designs the next batch, logs it, and cups it a few days later on the same bean card. · A specialty coffee drinker scans a new bag, watches its resting window and dials in a pour over. · A small roaster keeps green and roasted stock, lot codes and labels in one ledger with OLLA Pro. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No sign-up is required. No tracking, no ads, no third-party analytics. Your records stay on your device, and in your own iCloud if you turn on sync. Camera access is requested only when you scan and photo access only when you pick a photo; recognition runs on device. OLLA works in English, Simplified Chinese and Japanese. OLLA PRO OLLA Pro includes adding and delivering in Roast to Cup, iCloud sync across devices, PDF reports with your shop name, advanced widgets, and selected LAB chapters and data. Roast and inventory records from before 1.3.0 stay viewable. OLLA Pro is a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time purchase; the annual plan includes a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Coffee Note | Memory Journal at every 3 days against OLLA Brew Lab's weekly. Coffee Note | Memory Journal also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Coffee Note | Memory Journal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and OLLA Brew Lab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Coffee Note | Memory Journal ships an update every 3 days, OLLA Brew Lab weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Coffee Note | Memory Journal | OLLA Brew Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 169 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yudai Suzuki | HU JIANHUA |
In-app purchases
Coffee Note | Memory Journal
- Coffee Note Premium (Monthly)$1.991 Month
OLLA Brew Lab
- OLLA Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- OLLA Pro Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- OLLA Pro Lifetime$29.99
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