Comparison

Dial vs Beean

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

Head to head
About

Dial

Features
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Every new bag of coffee is a puzzle. You spend the first third of the bag hunting for a grind setting, and by the time it tastes great, it may be almost gone. Dial is built to fix that. Brews on Dial are public, so when you open a new bag you can see how other people have brewed that same coffee: their grinder, grind setting, dose, ratio, recipe, and how it turned out. Start from a brew that worked instead of a guess. And if you're the first, you're the one who saves the next person the hunt. LOG YOUR BREWS Pour over, espresso, immersion: any method, any gear. Log the coffee, brewer, grinder, grind setting, dose, ratio, recipe, brew time, rating, and notes. Track TDS and extraction yield if you measure them, or hide those fields entirely. Use the built-in timer, or skip it. Dial never asks you to make up numbers just to fill a form. Dial remembers your history. Pick a coffee and the form fills itself from your most recent matching brew, down to the recipe. Adjust what changed, log, done. Made something great last week? Rebrew it in one tap. YOUR CELLAR Keep track of every bag you own: days off roast and how much is left, tracked automatically as you brew. Freeze a bag (or split one for the freezer) and Dial tracks freeze and thaw dates so days off roast stays honest. EXPLORE Browse recent brews, coffees, roasters, and people. Every coffee has its own page collecting the community's brews on it, and every page gets more useful as more brews come in. Can't find your coffee? Add it, and the next person who buys that bag starts from your work. PUBLIC BY DESIGN Openness is the point. Your brew logs help the next person dial in the coffee you just finished, and theirs help you. Everything you log is public and searchable from day one. NO NOISE, JUST BREWS No likes, no streaks. Everything Dial does serves the brew. Dial is built by one person who logs every single brew they make. Whether you're chasing a specific extraction or just want tomorrow's cup to be better than today's, Dial gives you a place to keep your brewing memory and a community to borrow from.

About

Beean

Features
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Beean is a social media for those who love coffee, cafes and want to revive the local dying thirdplace. Treat it like your cafe diary; discover, rate, and share with a community of people like you. DISCOVER Find beautiful cafรฉs and hidden gems near you RATE Score any cafe; rank them based on taste, vibes, value. STYLE & STYLE Make each visit yours. Add your photos, stickers, and signature, then share it as a story. Create beautiful shareable stories that all your friends can see! COLLECT Every cafe you rate is put into your passport. Save beautiful cafes that other people are rating as part of your List. MEET beean is built for human connection. Plan meetups, find third places, and turn coffee into time together with friends. Love cafรฉs? Turn them into keepsakes. Discover, rate & share on beean.

Screenshots

Dial4 screens
Beean4 screens

Verdict

The call

Dial and Beean are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters โ€” price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Dial versus Beean: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDialBeean
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.017.6 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size42 MB57 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperSixteen Grams CorporationMONOMANIA LTD

In-app purchases

None

Dial

No in-app purchases

None

Beean

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dial free?
Dial is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Beean free?
Beean is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dial or Beean have ads?
Neither Dial nor Beean shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Dial or Beean?
Dial ships an update every 10 days, and Beean every 10 days. Most recently, Dial was updated on October 31, 2026 and Beean on October 31, 2026.

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