Cheese Making Journal vs RindLog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cheese Making Journal
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Wheel is the cheesemaking journal for serious home artisans. From fresh mozzarella to aged cheddar, track every make with the precision of a professional fromagerie. -- YOUR MAKE LOG -- Document every batch from milk to rind. Log milk type, cultures, rennet, temperatures, pH readings, and curd handling - step by step. Every make is timestamped and stored so you can reproduce your best wheels and learn from the rest. -- CAVE MANAGEMENT -- Monitor your aging cave with precision. Track temperature, humidity, and CO2 levels over time. Log daily conditions and spot trends before they ruin a wheel. Your cave data lives in a clean dashboard that reads like a sensor panel. -- AFFINAGE DAILY RITUALS -- Never miss a turning, brushing, or washing. Wheel's affinage tracker surfaces exactly what needs attention today. Check off tasks as you go - smear rind, salt, flip, oil. Each action is logged against the wheel it belongs to. -- RECIPE LIBRARY -- Build your personal cheese recipe collection. Organize by family - Fresh, Soft-Ripened, Semi-Hard, Hard, Lactic. Save ingredient quantities, process notes, and yield targets. When a make goes well, convert it directly to a recipe. -- TASTING NOTES -- Record flavor profiles, textures, and aromas for every wheel you taste. Track how a cheese evolves through aging. Build a private library of tasting notes that makes you a better cheesemaker. -- DESIGNED FOR MAKERS -- Bold typography, warm parchment tones, and monospaced readings make Wheel feel like a hand-numbered cave journal. Not a generic tracker - a maker's tool built for the craft. -- WHEEL PRO -- Unlock unlimited makes, caves, and recipes. Serious cheesemakers need serious tools. - Unlimited make logs - Unlimited cave setups - Full recipe library - Complete affinage history - Tasting notes archive Free tier: up to 3 makes, 1 cave, 5 recipes. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
RindLog
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Track the make. Trust the wait. RindLog is a native iOS app for home cheesemakers that logs your entire batch — from rennet to rind to tasting notes — fully offline, with no account and no subscription. 【What You Can Do】 ▷ Make Log Record culture, rennet amount, coagulation temperature and time, cutting notes, press weight and time, and a memo — the details you need to reproduce a batch that worked. A built-in coagulation timer keeps you on track while you work. ▷ Aging Log & Chart Log temperature, humidity, a photo, and a memo as often as you like. View the trend on a chart — 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, or the whole aging period. ▷ Care Task Reminders Set a flip, wash, wax, or custom task with an interval in days. RindLog sends a local notification when it's due, and you can mark it done with one tap — no more guessing whether you flipped the wheel yesterday or the day before. ▷ Tasting Result Rate saltiness, acidity, flavor, and texture, plus an overall score. Add notes and appearance/cross-section photos. Saving it marks the batch complete. ▷ Recipes Save a recipe once, link every batch you make from it, and compare how it turned out each time. ▷ Share Cards Share a new-batch card, an aging-progress card with your temp/humidity chart, or a completed card with your rating and cross-section photo. ▷ Stats See your total batches, a monthly trend, a cheese-type breakdown, and your average tasting scores. ▷ Data Export Back up everything — batches, recipes, logs, and photos — as a ZIP file, and restore it on a new device. No account needed. 【Who It's For】 · Anyone whose cheese cave has more wheels than they can keep straight from memory · Cheesemakers who've had a great batch and couldn't remember what they did differently · Anyone who's missed a flip because there was nothing to remind them · Home cheesemakers who want their notes kept privately on their own phone 【Your Data Stays on Your Device】 Everything is stored locally on your iPhone. Nothing is uploaded to external servers. No account required, and no risk of losing your log if a service shuts down. 【Pricing】 · Free: Up to 3 batches, every feature included, share cards carry a watermark. · RindLog Pro (one-time purchase): Unlimited batches, watermark-free share cards. Pay once, yours forever. ---------------------- Developer: Kore Apps Contact: support@kore-apps.com ----------------------
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Cheese Making Journal at fortnightly against RindLog's monthly. RindLog's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18). 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. Cheese Making Journal sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and RindLog sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Cheese Making Journal ships an update fortnightly, RindLog monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cheese Making Journal | RindLog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Karol Jaworski | kazuki korenori |
In-app purchases
Cheese Making Journal
- Wheel Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Wheel Pro Yearly Promo1 Year trial$39.991 Year
- Wheel Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
RindLog
- RindLog Pro$6.99







