Comparison

Brewprint vs Dial

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

Head to head
About

Brewprint

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Brewprint is your personal coffee brewing journal. Log every pour-over, track your beans, and uncover insights that help you brew better coffee. TRACK YOUR BREWS Record coffee-to-water ratio, grind size, water temperature, brew time, and tasting notes. Rate each cup and see what works. BUILD YOUR BEAN LIBRARY Catalog your coffee beans with roaster, origin, variety, process, and flavor profiles. Never forget a great coffee. CREATE REUSABLE RECIPES Save your favorite brewing methods as templates. Start each brew with your proven settings. GAIN INSIGHTS Discover patterns in your brewing data. Find your top-rated beans, best recipes, and what variables matter most for your taste. OFFLINE FIRST All your data stays on your device. No account required. Your brewing journal is always available, with or without internet.

About

Dial

Features
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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 fixes that. Brews on Dial are public, so when you open a new bag you can see exactly how other people brewed that same coffee: their grinder, their grind setting, dose, ratio, recipe, and how it turned out. Start from a brew that worked instead of a guess. LOG YOUR BREWS 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 learns from your own 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 Everything Dial does supports that. Dial is built by one person who logs every single brew they make with it. 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. Let's brew together.

Screenshots

Brewprint4 screens
Dial4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Dial at none against Brewprint's shown. Brewprint's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brewprint ships an update every 3 days, Dial every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
Brewprint versus Dial: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrewprintDial
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 days β€” betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsYesNo β€” better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 β€” better26.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size44 MB41 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperYunkee LeeSixteen Grams Corporation

In-app purchases

None

Brewprint

No in-app purchases

None

Dial

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brewprint free?
Brewprint is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dial free?
Dial is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Brewprint or Dial have ads?
Brewprint shows ads; Dial does not.
Which is updated more often, Brewprint or Dial?
Brewprint ships an update every 3 days, and Dial every 5 weeks. Most recently, Brewprint was updated on September 15, 2026 and Dial on September 13, 2026.

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