Comparison

Coffee Journal vs Coffee Diary

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

Head to head
About

Coffee Journal

Features
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Coffee Journal — 你的私人咖啡日记 一次买断,没有订阅、没有内购、没有广告,全部功能开放。 【日记】 自制与探店混排的时间线。每条记录都可以写评分、风味标签、冲煮参数,配一张照片。常喝的那杯存成快速模板,下次一键记录。 【探店】 店铺定位与地图、饮品评分、服务与环境分开打分,招牌饮品和风味标签随手记。 【咖啡豆】 熟豆与绿豆分开管理。品牌、产地、庄园、品种、处理法、烘焙度,自动折算每克单价。每支豆可挂多套手冲方案——研磨刻度、水温、分段注水量、注水方式、粉水比,反复调到最好喝为止。 【烘焙】 支持导入 Kaffelogic .klog / .kpro 日志,也可手动记录。 · 豆温、炉温、升温率(ROR)同图对照 · 温度、功率、风扇共用一条时间轴,可左右拖动查看完整曲线,不做压缩 · 回温点与一爆位置贯穿标注 · 发展率(DTR)按烘焙机记录的真实下豆点计算,而不是曲线末尾 · 多炉曲线可叠加对比 【杯测】 SCA 标准十维度评分,0.25 分步进。42 个标准风味词,部分配实物照片。雷达图与风味气泡呈现整杯轮廓,每条杯测都能关联到具体的豆子与烘焙批次。 【我的】 近半年咖啡足迹热力图、年度统计与高光回顾。一键导出 PDF 报告,或备份 JSON / CSV 全量数据。 【数据是你自己的】 所有记录存在本地设备,不上传任何服务器。烘焙日志可通过 iCloud Drive 投递导入。 使用条款:https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ 隐私政策:https://stttttte.github.io/coffeejournal-privacy/

About

Coffee Diary

Features
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Coffee Diary is a brewing log for pour-over coffee. Every cup becomes a ticket: water temperature, dose, water, grind setting, time, a rating, and one line of notes. It then stays in the version chain for that bean — next time you can reproduce it exactly, or change one variable and try again. Why a ticket Params, score and date print on one piece of paper, so the gap between this cup and the last one is obvious at a glance. Peak window, no mental math Give it a roast date and the app orders your beans around a 10-day rest and a peak window that closes 40 days after roasting, tightest one first. Reminders are local notifications — no server involved, and you can switch them off in Settings. Inventory counts itself down A cup logged with its parameters deducts the dose from what's left. Set it to 0 when the bag is empty and the tickets stay. Units you choose g / oz for weight; price beans per 100 g, 500 g, oz or lb; the currency symbol can follow your device or be picked by hand. Changing currency swaps the symbol only — prices you already entered are not converted. Interface languages Simplified & Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, Arabic — switchable inside the app without a restart. Coffee Diary Pro (one-time, non-consumable) · Recipe comparison: two brews of the same bean side by side, differences called out item by item. · Export everything: JSON, CSV, Markdown or a PDF ticket book — every ticket printed onto A4 with a pantry cover page. Buy once, keep it forever. Not a subscription. Privacy No accounts, no server, no cloud sync, no ads, no tracking. What you log lives only on this iPhone; exporting a file is something you do yourself in the system share sheet. Delete the app and the data goes with it — we hold no copy. Contact ss0593@qq.com Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Coffee Journal4 screens
Coffee Diary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Coffee Diary at Free against Coffee Journal's $4.99. Coffee Diary also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.2). On update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Coffee Diary is free to download; Coffee Journal costs $4.99 up front. Coffee Journal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $5.99 per month and Coffee Diary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Coffee Journal ships an update every 2 weeks, Coffee Diary monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Coffee Journal versus Coffee Diary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCoffee JournalCoffee Diary
Price$4.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer斯迪 刘晓强 江

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Coffee Journal

Subscriptions1
  • Pro 月度订阅$5.991 Month
1 purchases

Coffee Diary

One-time1
  • Pro Unlock$7.99

Questions

Is Coffee Journal free?
Coffee Journal costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Coffee Diary free?
Coffee Diary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Coffee Journal or Coffee Diary have ads?
Neither Coffee Journal nor Coffee Diary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Coffee Journal or Coffee Diary?
Coffee Journal ships an update every 2 weeks, and Coffee Diary monthly. Most recently, Coffee Journal was updated on November 5, 2026 and Coffee Diary on November 10, 2026.

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