Comparison

Pourist vs Bloom Session

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

Head to head
About

Pourist

Log your pour-over coffee brews, get personalized recipes based on your beans and gear, and refine future cups with simple feedback. Discover certified recipes, track your coffee journey with detailed stats, and find local cafes.

Highlights
  • Personalized pour-over recipes
  • Brew timer with Lock Screen support
  • Feedback loop for recipe refinement
  • Bean and coffee log
  • Certified barista recipes
  • Cafe map and log
  • Customizable app moods
Features
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Same beans, but a different cup every day? Pourist builds a pour-over recipe for your beans, dripper, grinder, and water, then refines the next cup with a single sip of feedback. • Your recipe: pick your beans and gear, and get ratio, temperature, grind, and every pour • Certified recipes: recipes from champions, baristas, and brewer makers, matched to your own gear • Guided brewing: calm, step-by-step pours, with the timer on your Lock Screen • Feedback loop: tap acidity, sweetness, body, or bitterness, and your next recipe adjusts • Bean log: snap the bag to fill in the details, and see when each bean hits its peak • Records and stats: a coffee calendar, weekly receipts, an origin map, and a sticker drawer of finished bags • Cafe log: find hand-drip cafes on the map, and keep the cups you drink out, too • Moods: dress the app in Sky, which follows today's sky; Ink, where your beans' flavors bleed like ink; or any mood that suits you Works with V60, Kalita, Origami, Hario Switch, vacuum brewers, and more. A cup that gets better the more you log. Start today's pour with Pourist. Terms of Use: https://pourist.app/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://pourist.app/legal/privacy

About

Bloom Session

Features
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The definitive specialty coffee archive crafted for your perfect cup. From tracking bean degassing to fully customizing recipes and equipment, logging WCR-standard sensory notes, and exploring lifestyle statistics—enjoy a focused, distraction-free brewing experience. Smart Bean Management • Full Support for Single Origins & Blends: Manage detailed coffee bean profiles, including origin, processing method, roastery, and variety. • Degassing Tracker: Automatically monitor and track the peak flavor window based on the roast date. Precision Brewing Sessions • Seamless Environmental Tracking: Automatically record environmental factors alongside beans and recipes, including location, weather, temperature, and humidity. • Aesthetic Share Cards: Generate and share your brewing records as sleek, beautifully designed card images. Global Standard Sensory Logging • WCR Lexicon 2.0 Standard: Systematically log professional flavor notes based on the World Coffee Research (WCR) Sensory Lexicon Version 2.0. • Comprehensive Cup Evaluation: Combine star ratings with sensory descriptors to archive cup quality and your evolving personal taste. Custom Recipe & Equipment Builder • Unlimited Recipe Customization: Brew with curated default recipes or create, customize, and edit your own from scratch. • Flexible Gear Profiling: Register your drippers, filters, grinders, grind settings, and accessories, matching them seamlessly to individual recipes. • Precision Step-by-Step Pour Planning: Fine-tune dose, water volume, brew ratio, water temperature, total brew time, and specific parameters for each pouring stage. Data-Driven Taste Insights • Comprehensive Dashboard: Visualize bean consumption patterns, brewing frequency, and flavor profile distributions at a glance. • Lifestyle Insights: Track how your daily coffee rituals and sensory preferences evolve through data. Pure Experience • No in-app purchases, paid subscriptions, or ads—just a completely pure, transparent, and distraction-free logging space. • Data is stored in your device or iCloud. • Sync with iCloud seamlessly.

Screenshots

Pourist4 screens
Bloom Session4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bloom Session at none against Pourist's 4. Bloom Session also leads on ads (none vs shown). Pourist's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence 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

Both are free to download. Pourist sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Bloom Session asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pourist ships an update every 10 days, Bloom Session every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Pourist versus Bloom Session: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPouristBloom Session
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size111 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperL2N CompanyHeeChan Jeong

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Pourist

Subscriptions2
  • Pourist Plus Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Pourist Plus Yearly$54.991 Year
One-time2
  • Ink Mood Lifetime$4.99
  • Sky Mood Lifetime$5.99
None

Bloom Session

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pourist free?
Pourist is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bloom Session free?
Bloom Session is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pourist or Bloom Session have ads?
Pourist shows ads; Bloom Session does not.
Which is updated more often, Pourist or Bloom Session?
Pourist ships an update every 10 days, and Bloom Session every 9 days. Most recently, Pourist was updated on November 7, 2026 and Bloom Session on November 6, 2026.

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