Comparison

Pour Over Coffee Timer vs BrewBean

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

Head to head
About

Pour Over Coffee Timer

This app helps filter coffee enthusiasts brew with confidence by providing guided timers, extensive recipes, and a detailed brew journal. It offers features like AI-driven suggestions, voice control, and Bluetooth scale integration for precise brewing.

Highlights
  • Guided brew timer with visual and sound alerts
  • Over 1,000 recipes from baristas
  • Bluetooth scale integration for live weight tracking
  • Voice guidance and control for hands-free operation
  • AI Barista for personalized brewing suggestions
  • Brew journal to log cups and track preferences
  • Bean tracker and grind guide
Features
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Gota is the pour over coffee timer and brew journal for people who take filter coffee seriously. Whether you're dialing in your morning V60 or trying a new AeroPress recipe, Gota walks you through every step and fits the recipe to your own gear. 100 BREWING METHODS, OVER 1,000 RECIPES V60, AeroPress, Chemex, Kalita Wave, Origami, Orea, April, Hario Switch, Clever, French press, moka pot, siphon and cold brew. Recipes by named baristas, roasters and championship winners, each with dose, water, ratio, grind, temperature and timed pour steps, and a link to the source. GUIDED BREW TIMER Bloom, pour, wait, swirl: Gota shows the water to reach at every step, counts you in with 3-2-1 and cues each pour with a sound and a haptic tap, so you can watch the coffee instead of the clock. VOICE GUIDANCE AND VOICE CONTROL Gota reads each step aloud and you answer back: say "Done", "Start pour", "Resume" or "Finish" and the brew moves on without touching the screen. It works in all six languages of the app. Off until you turn it on. BLUETOOTH SCALES Connect an Acaia scale for live weight, your pour rate in grams per second, a cue before each target and pours that end by weight. The pour curve stays in your history. Timemore, BOOKOO, DiFluid, Felicita and Decent are in beta. A scale is optional. YOUR GRINDER'S CLICKS Add your grinders — 50 models from Comandante, 1Zpresso, Timemore, Baratza, Fellow, Niche and more — and every recipe's grind shows up as the setting on your own dial. LIVE BREW VIDEO Film your brew and Gota cuts the video for you: each step's target weight, time and temperature over your own footage, closing on your rating. Vertical and ready to share. AI BARISTA Before the first pour, the barista reads the recipe, your coffee and how fresh it is, your grinder and your past brews, and suggests one change. After the cup, it suggests the next one. AI RECIPE IMPORT AND BAG SCANNING Photograph a recipe card, a page or a screenshot, or paste the text, and Gota turns it into a recipe with timed steps. Photograph a coffee bag and it fills in roaster, origin, process and roast date. BEANS AND FRESHNESS Keep a shelf of your coffees with an image of each bag. Gota tracks how fresh each one is and how many grams are left, and links every bag to your brews. BREW JOURNAL AND INSIGHTS Rate every cup, tag its flavors and add notes. Insights shows your current coffee, a suggested next brew and where your taste is drifting. CREATE YOUR OWN RECIPES Build recipes with full control over steps, pour targets, flow rates and timing, and share them as an image card. COLD BREW Tell the assistant how much you want and how you'll drink it, and it works out the recipe. The steep counts down on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. LEARN 40 lessons across five chapters — the bean, foundations, methods, techniques and cupping — with interactive demos and a 51-term glossary. ALSO INSIDE Widgets for your Home and Lock Screens, an extraction calculator with the SCA brewing control chart, compatible filters for every method, dark mode, grams or ounces, Celsius or Fahrenheit. In English, Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese. No account needed, and the library works offline. GOTA PRO Unlock every recipe, unlimited custom recipes and the AI features — recipe import, bag scanning, the barista and the cold brew assistant — with a monthly or yearly subscription. Everything Gota does, in detail: gota.cafe/en/app - Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - Privacy Policy: https://gota.cafe/privacy - Contact: https://gota.cafe/support

About

BrewBean

Features
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Tu bitacora de cafe

Screenshots

Pour Over Coffee Timer4 screens
BrewBean4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BrewBean at none against Pour Over Coffee Timer's 3. Pour Over Coffee Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Pour Over Coffee Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.95 per month. BrewBean asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pour Over Coffee Timer ships an update every 4 days, BrewBean monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Pour Over Coffee Timer versus BrewBean: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPour Over Coffee TimerBrewBean
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size171 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJose Antonio Neto SuarezMarcos Perez

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pour Over Coffee Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Gota Pro Monthly$3.951 Month
  • Gota Pro Yearly7 Days trial$35.951 Year
One-time1
  • Gota Pro Lifetime$39.95
None

BrewBean

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pour Over Coffee Timer free?
Pour Over Coffee Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BrewBean free?
BrewBean is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pour Over Coffee Timer or BrewBean have ads?
Neither Pour Over Coffee Timer nor BrewBean shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pour Over Coffee Timer or BrewBean?
Pour Over Coffee Timer ships an update every 4 days, and BrewBean monthly. Most recently, Pour Over Coffee Timer was updated on October 25, 2026 and BrewBean on October 24, 2026.

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