Bloom vs Kitchen Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bloom
This app helps coffee enthusiasts meticulously track their beans, craft custom brew recipes, and log tasting notes. It offers smart scanning for coffee bags and provides personalized coaching to refine brewing techniques for the perfect cup.
- Customizable brew timer with step-by-step recipes
- Detailed coffee bean logging and inventory management
- Flavor lifecycle tracking based on roast date
- On-device AI for smart coffee bag scanning
- Brew coaching and detailed cupping assessments
- Home screen and lock screen widgets
- Equipment and grinder settings tracking
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Bloom is a coffee timer and journal for your daily brewing routine. Keep track of your beans, follow step-by-step recipes, and remember what made each cup work. YOUR COFFEE SHELF Record roast dates, origins, tasting notes, purchase prices, and your rating of each coffee. Set the remaining weight for a part-used bag and compare its price per 100 g. Flavor Windows estimate freshness from roast type and age. SCAN AND REVIEW COFFEE BAGS Photograph multiple bags and several sides of each bag. Bloom processes labels on your device and prepares details for you to review and correct before saving. Scanning requires iOS 26 or later. Compatible devices with Apple Intelligence available use on-device AI; when the model is unavailable, supported systems use text recognition. On older iOS versions, add details manually. Scanning can miss or misread details, so check the result against your bag. GUIDED BREWING Create or import recipes, follow timed steps, and keep variants for your experiments. Start a brew from a coffee to carry that bag into the timer. Each grinder remembers its last setting, and you can choose a default grinder. JOURNAL AND INVENTORY Finishing a brew saves a journal entry and updates the coffee's remaining weight. Add your assessment now or later. Record taste, notes, dose, and output, then use Brew Coach suggestions to plan your next cup. Detailed cupping adds aroma and taste assessments, flavor tags, and a radar chart. MAKE IT YOURS Track equipment and caffeine intake, choose a color palette in light or dark mode, and use Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets. BLOOM PRO Start free with up to 3 coffees and 5 recipes, the brew timer, and Brew Coach. Bloom Pro adds unlimited coffees and recipes and Pro widgets. Monthly, yearly, and lifetime options are available; current localized prices and subscription terms appear before purchase. Restore purchases in the app. No account is required for core features. Coffee data is stored on your device and may sync through your private iCloud account. Label processing happens on-device. RevenueCat manages purchase entitlements. No ads. Terms of Use: https://bloom.parthjadhav.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://bloom.parthjadhav.com/privacy
Kitchen Timer
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Six pots, three pans and a roast in the oven, and one phone timer that only counts one thing. Brioche runs every kitchen timer you need side by side, each one named, color-coded and announced out loud the moment it is up. Most timer apps give you a number counting down. Brioche gives you a kitchen that talks: when the eggs are done it says "Soft Eggs is ready", when the pasta is done it says so by name, and if your phone is across the room a notification still rings so nothing boils over. Recipes with several steps become one tap that starts every timer at once. WHAT YOU GET • Run as many timers as your stove has burners, each with its own name, color and emoji so you never wonder which one just went off • Hear each timer called out by name through the on-device voice, hands still in the dough • Get a notification with the dish name when the app is in the background, so a walk to the pantry never burns dinner • Turn a recipe into a one-tap start: Boil water plus Cook pasta, Sear side 1 plus Flip, all timers fired together • Start from eight ready-made presets for pasta, eggs, French press, oolong and green tea, steak and rice, or build and edit your own • See every finished cook in History with total cooks, total time and your most cooked dish, so your prep rhythm gets tighter every week PERFECT FOR • Weeknight dinners where the sauce, the pasta and the vegetables all finish within minutes of each other • Sunday meal prep with a roast, grains and a tray of eggs running at the same time • Tea and coffee steeping timed to the second, every morning, without touching the phone • Home bakers juggling proof, bake and rest stages across several batches WHY NOT JUST THE CLOCK APP? The built-in timer is fine for one pot. The moment you have two, you lose track of which alarm is which and have to walk to the phone to find out. Brioche labels every timer, tells you the name out loud, and keeps the whole board on one screen with progress rings you can read from across the counter. Edit a running timer, pause one burner without touching the others, and reset in a tap. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your recipes, presets and cook history stay on this iPhone. No account, no sign-in, no cloud sync, no ads, no analytics. Voice announcements are generated on the device, and Brioche works fully offline. FULL ACCESS Brioche requires a subscription or a one-time purchase after onboarding. Choose a weekly plan, a yearly plan, or a lifetime purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel them at any time in your App Store account settings. The exact price for your country is shown in the app before you confirm. Tap the Pasta preset tonight and let Brioche tell you when both the water and the noodles are done. Terms of Service: https://pnkl26.web.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://pnkl26.web.app/privacy-policy Support: pnkhanhlinh0206@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bloom at every 2 weeks against Kitchen Timer's every 4 months. On price, 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
Both are free to download. Bloom sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Kitchen Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bloom ships an update every 2 weeks, Kitchen Timer every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bloom | Kitchen Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Parth Jadhav | Linh Phan Nhat Khanh |
In-app purchases
Bloom
- Bloom Pro Monthly1 Month trial$2.991 Month
- Bloom Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
- Bloom Pro Lifetime$29.99
Kitchen Timer
- Brioche Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
- Brioche Premium Yearly$14.991 Year
- Roast Countdown Lifetime$29.99









