Coffee Journal vs Coffee Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Coffee Journal
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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/
Coffee Diary
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | Coffee Journal | Coffee Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 斯迪 刘 | 晓强 江 |
In-app purchases
Coffee Journal
- Pro 月度订阅$5.991 Month
Coffee Diary
- Pro Unlock$7.99
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