RoastNote vs Coffee Brew Log
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RoastNote
This app helps home coffee roasters meticulously track every stage of their roasting process. Log timings, events, bean details, and flavor profiles to build consistency and refine your coffee batches.
- Precise roast timer
- Event logging (first/second crack)
- Development Time and DTR tracking
- Weight logging and loss calculation
- Bean management
- Flavor tag ratings
- Roast history
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RoastNote is a simple, focused app for tracking home coffee roasting from start to finish. From timing your roast to reviewing past batches, it helps you build consistency and improve results over time. Key features: Precise roast timer with start, stop, and reset First crack / second crack event logging Development Time and DTR tracking Green and roasted weight logging with automatic weight-loss calculation Bean management (name, origin, variety, process) Flavor tags with ratings for cup profiling Roast history with detailed session views Per-bean roast counts and latest-session summaries Customizable process methods and flavor tags in Settings Who it’s for: Home roasters who want clean, reliable logs Anyone trying to reproduce great roasts consistently Coffee enthusiasts who want to compare beans and improve batch by batch The more you log, the clearer your roasting patterns become. RoastNote helps you turn each roast into better decisions for the next one. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Coffee Brew Log
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Stop guessing. Start dialling in. Coffee Brew Log requires a paid subscription or a one-time Lifetime purchase to use. There is no free version and no free tier. The Yearly plan includes a 3-day free trial. Great coffee is repeatable coffee. Coffee Brew Log records what you actually did, then shows you why the cup tasted the way it did, so you can brew it again on purpose. BREW LOG Log a cup in seconds: method, dose, water, ratio, grind setting, temperature, time, a 5-star rating, tasting notes and free-text notes. Espresso, V60, Chemex, AeroPress, French press, moka pot, cold brew, Kalita Wave, Clever dripper, siphon, Turkish and percolator are all supported. GUIDED BREW TIMER A step-by-step pour-over timer with bloom, pours and drawdown. A live cumulative water target tells you exactly how much to pour and when. It runs as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you can keep pouring without unlocking your iPhone. EXTRACTION COACH Rated a cup low? The dial-in coach reads your grind, ratio, temperature and time, tells you whether the brew was under-extracted, balanced or over-extracted, and tells you exactly what to change next time. BEAN INVENTORY AND FRESHNESS Track roaster, origin, roast date, process, roast level, varietal, price and grams remaining. Roast-date freshness shows at a glance whether a bag is Resting, at Peak, Fading or Past peak. RECIPE LIBRARY Eight built-in classics: Hoffmann Ultimate V60, Tetsu Kasuya 4:6, AeroPress, Chemex, clean French press, espresso dial-in, cold brew and Kalita Wave. Add unlimited custom recipes with fully editable pour steps. STATS THAT ACTUALLY HELP Swift Charts show your rating trend over time, brews per method, a ratio-vs-rating scatter that reveals your personal sweet-spot ratio, your best-rated beans, your winning recipe for each method, and your real cost per cup in US dollars. WIDGET Start the brew timer straight from your Home Screen. PRIVATE BY DESIGN 100% offline. No account, no server, no analytics, no ads, no tracking. Your brews stay on your device. SUBSCRIPTION AND TERMS Coffee Brew Log is a paid app and a purchase is required to use it. Plans: - Monthly: $2.99 per month - Yearly: $14.99 per year, including a 3-day free trial - Lifetime: $24.99, one-time purchase Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of the current period. Subscriptions can be managed and cancelled in Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. The Lifetime purchase is one-time and does not renew. All prices are in USD and may vary by region. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://joykhansayan1.github.io/coffee-brew-log/privacy.html
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Verdict
RoastNote and Coffee Brew Log are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. RoastNote sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per month and Coffee Brew Log sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | RoastNote | Coffee Brew Log |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mao Nabeta | MD Shahariar Nazim Joy |
In-app purchases
RoastNote
- RoastNote Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
Coffee Brew Log
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Yearly3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$24.99
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