Comparison

BrewPilot vs 1518 Coffee

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

Head to head
About

BrewPilot

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BrewPilot helps specialty coffee lovers dial in better cups โ€” and repeat the ones that worked. Use guided brew timers, ratio calculators, grind-size notes, coffee recipes, bean tracking, and a private brew log to understand what changed and what actually tasted better. GUIDED BREW TIMER Follow step-by-step brew timers for V60, AeroPress, Chemex, French Press, Clever Dripper, Kalita Wave, Espresso, Cold Brew, Moka Pot, and Turkish coffee. BrewPilot guides each step with timing, water amounts, haptic feedback, and auto-advance. RATIO CALCULATOR Choose your method, coffee dose, and brew ratio. BrewPilot calculates the water you need instantly, with support for grams, ounces, and tablespoons. BREW LOG Rate every brew, add tasting notes, track what worked, and save great brews as recipes. Stop guessing and build a history of your best cups. CUSTOM RECIPES Create your own brew timer recipes with custom steps, water amounts, timing, and notes. Load any recipe into the timer with one tap. GRIND SIZE NOTES Track grind settings for each method and adjust them to match your grinder. Perfect for dialing in V60, AeroPress, Chemex, espresso, and more. COFFEE COLLECTION Keep track of the beans you have at home. Add roaster, origin, roast level, tasting notes, and ratings so you always know what to brew next. ICED COFFEE MODE BrewPilot can split your water between hot brew water and ice, helping you make stronger iced coffee without watering it down. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account needed. BrewPilot works offline and syncs privately across your devices with iCloud. BREWPILOT PRO Pro unlocks unlimited brew log, custom recipes, coffee collection, CSV export, and the full dial-in toolkit. SUBSCRIPTION INFO โ€ข Pro Monthly: $1.99/month โ€ข Pro Yearly: $9.99/year โ€ข Pro Lifetime: $19.99 one-time purchase โ€ข Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase โ€ข Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period โ€ข You can manage and cancel subscriptions in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions โ€ข Terms of Use: https://docs-two-blush-91.vercel.app/terms.html โ€ข Privacy Policy: https://docs-two-blush-91.vercel.app/privacy.html

About

1518 Coffee

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From specialty coffee lovers to specialty coffee lovers. 1518 does two things well: it reads the bag you just bought, and it helps you brew it better than you did last time. Everything else is in service of those two. SCAN THE BAG Point your phone at the label. Roaster, origin, producer, process, altitude, variety โ€” read off and turned into a proper coffee card. No typing, no forms. BREW IT RIGHT Guided timers for thirteen brewers, from the V60 and Chemex to the AeroPress, Pulsar, Switch and April Hybrid. Pour by pour, target weight on screen, a nudge when it is time to pour again. Change the dose and the whole recipe rescales with it. RECIPES IN THE GRINDER YOU OWN Recipes are written in Comandante clicks by convention, which helps nobody who owns something else. 1518 converts them: a ZP6 owner sees 3.4, not "34 clicks". TRAIN YOUR PALATE The taste lab gives you four levers โ€” grind, heat, water and time โ€” and shows how each one pushes the cup between sour and bitter, and where the sweet spot sits between them. It is the fastest way to understand why a brew went wrong. KNOW BEFORE YOU BREW Every coffee gets a predicted flavour profile from its process, altitude, variety and roast. It shows what it based the guess on, and never pretends to be a measurement. Taste it yourself and disagree โ€” every value is yours to change, and your reading always wins. KEEP EVERY BAG Sealed, open, finished. Days since you opened it, grams left, brews logged against it. The bags you are actually drinking sit at the top. AND THE ONES YOU DIDN'T BUY Photograph a bag on a shop shelf, or a cup someone poured you. Mark it seen, drank, or want to try. What you rate there teaches your taste profile too. SAVE YOUR OWN RECIPES The ratio that finally worked on that Ethiopian, kept and named, on every device you use. LEARN THE CRAFT Brewers, papers and grinders explained properly โ€” how each one drains, which paper suits it, what a burr set actually does. Drawn, not photographed. A DIRECTORY WORTH HAVING 220 roasters across 49 countries and 50 producers across 18, researched and checked by hand rather than scraped. Every website and handle verified against the roaster's own site. 1518 PLUS Free keeps ten coffees and the whole recipe library. Plus adds unlimited coffees, recipes of your own, and sync across every device you use. Monthly EUR 4.99 - Yearly EUR 39.90 - Founder lifetime EUR 99 Every cup has a story. --- Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings. Privacy policy: https://1518.coffee/privacy Terms of use: https://1518.coffee/terms

Screenshots

BrewPilot4 screens
1518 Coffee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: 1518 Coffee at every 2 weeks against BrewPilot's monthly. BrewPilot's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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. BrewPilot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and 1518 Coffee sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BrewPilot ships an update monthly, 1518 Coffee every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
BrewPilot versus 1518 Coffee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrewPilot1518 Coffee
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 2 weeks โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size8 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlex GalkinAnna Boiarkina

In-app purchases

3 purchases

BrewPilot

Subscriptions2
  • BrewPilot Pro$1.991 Month
  • BrewPilot Pro$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • BrewPilot Pro Lifetime$19.99
3 purchases

1518 Coffee

Subscriptions2
  • 1518 Plus Monthly$3.991 Month
  • 1518 Plus Yearly$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • 1518 Founder$89.99

Questions

Is BrewPilot free?
BrewPilot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is 1518 Coffee free?
1518 Coffee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BrewPilot or 1518 Coffee have ads?
Neither BrewPilot nor 1518 Coffee shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BrewPilot or 1518 Coffee?
BrewPilot ships an update monthly, and 1518 Coffee every 2 weeks. Most recently, BrewPilot was updated on October 11, 2026 and 1518 Coffee on October 5, 2026.

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