Pour Over Coffee Timer vs Bloom Session
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pour Over Coffee Timer
This app guides you through pour-over coffee brewing with detailed recipes and a customizable timer. It offers voice control, Bluetooth scale integration, and a journal to track your brews and taste preferences.
- Guided brew timer with sound and haptic cues
- Voice guidance and control for hands-free operation
- Bluetooth scale integration for live weight and pour rate
- Grind setting conversion for specific grinders
- AI-powered recipe suggestions and import
- Brew journal with ratings, notes, and insights
- Custom recipe creation and sharing
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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
Bloom Session
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The definitive specialty coffee archive crafted for your perfect cup. From tracking bean degassing to fully customizing recipes and equipment, logging WCR-standard sensory notes, and exploring lifestyle statistics—enjoy a focused, distraction-free brewing experience. Smart Bean Management • Full Support for Single Origins & Blends: Manage detailed coffee bean profiles, including origin, processing method, roastery, and variety. • Degassing Tracker: Automatically monitor and track the peak flavor window based on the roast date. Precision Brewing Sessions • Seamless Environmental Tracking: Automatically record environmental factors alongside beans and recipes, including location, weather, temperature, and humidity. • Aesthetic Share Cards: Generate and share your brewing records as sleek, beautifully designed card images. Global Standard Sensory Logging • WCR Lexicon 2.0 Standard: Systematically log professional flavor notes based on the World Coffee Research (WCR) Sensory Lexicon Version 2.0. • Comprehensive Cup Evaluation: Combine star ratings with sensory descriptors to archive cup quality and your evolving personal taste. Custom Recipe & Equipment Builder • Unlimited Recipe Customization: Brew with curated default recipes or create, customize, and edit your own from scratch. • Flexible Gear Profiling: Register your drippers, filters, grinders, grind settings, and accessories, matching them seamlessly to individual recipes. • Precision Step-by-Step Pour Planning: Fine-tune dose, water volume, brew ratio, water temperature, total brew time, and specific parameters for each pouring stage. Data-Driven Taste Insights • Comprehensive Dashboard: Visualize bean consumption patterns, brewing frequency, and flavor profile distributions at a glance. • Lifestyle Insights: Track how your daily coffee rituals and sensory preferences evolve through data. Pure Experience • No in-app purchases, paid subscriptions, or ads—just a completely pure, transparent, and distraction-free logging space. • Data is stored in your device or iCloud. • Sync with iCloud seamlessly.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bloom Session at none against Pour Over Coffee Timer's 2. Pour Over Coffee Timer's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Pour Over Coffee Timer sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.95 per month. Bloom Session asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pour Over Coffee Timer ships an update every 4 days, Bloom Session every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pour Over Coffee Timer | Bloom Session |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 171 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jose Antonio Neto Suarez | HeeChan Jeong |
In-app purchases
Pour Over Coffee Timer
- Gota Pro Monthly$3.951 Month
- Gota Pro Yearly7 Days trial$35.951 Year
Bloom Session
No in-app purchases
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