Comparison

Flavor Notes vs Coffee Notes

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

Head to head
About

Flavor Notes

Explore coffee tasting notes with an interactive flavor wheel and guided sessions. Log brews with a timer and ratio calculator, track equipment, and gain personal palate insights. Features a bag scanner and community-shared recipes.

Highlights
  • Interactive coffee flavor wheel
  • Guided tasting mode
  • Brew timer and ratio calculator
  • Customizable tasting notes
  • Personalized flavor insights
  • Coffee bag scanner
  • Community brew recipes
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Flavor Notes is for coffee drinkers who want to taste more, not just log more. An interactive flavor wheel, brew timer, and personal palate insights, all in one app. Visually rich logging you'll actually want to come back to. • Interactive flavor wheel - Tap through 70+ tasting notes organized by family. Explore freely whenever you want to map a cup on your own. • Guided tasting mode - New to tasting or want to sharpen your palate? Step through a structured tasting that teaches you what to notice and when. • Brew timer and ratio calculator - Dial in your dose, pick a method, and time pours. Built-in recipes for pour-over, AeroPress, French press, espresso and more. • Tasting notes that fit your style - A flexible form you shape to your needs. Add or hide any field. Go as deep or as light as the cup deserves. • Command-line(CLI) companion - For terminal-heavy and Claude Code power users, query your library with prompts like "what were my top Ethiopian blends last year" or log a cup straight from your shell. • Personal insights - Log 3 cups to unlock your flavor signature, palate radar, top roasters, top origins, and a year-at-a-glance heatmap. • Bag scanner - Point your camera at a coffee bag and we'll lift out the details for you. • Brew recipes - Save your own and tweak the variables to compare how each change shifts the taste. Share favorites with the community or pull from theirs. • Equipment tracking - Track your grinder, machine, dripper, scale, and kettle with suggested maintenance schedules and care tips to keep every piece performing. Built for home brewers, espresso enthusiasts, journalers, and the curious.

About

Coffee Notes

Log your coffee brews with detailed notes, photos, and timers. Track your habits, discover new roasts, and optionally share your coffee journey with friends.

Highlights
  • Automatic label reading from photos
  • Detailed brew logging
  • Built-in brew timer
  • Coffee habit recap
  • Optional social sharing
  • Privacy controls
Features
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Coffee Notes is a simple, enjoyable, journal for your coffee brews. Photograph a bag and Coffee Notes reads the label for you :: name, roaster, origin, tasting notes.. Then log every brew: pick your method, run the built-in timer, rate the cup, and jot what you tasted. Already reviewed a brew but still want to keep track of how much coffee you're drinking? Long-hold a method to log a cup in one tap. Your Recap adds it all up — how many cups you’ve had, your go-to methods, your top roasts, and the origins you’ve explored. BUDDIES (optional): create a profile, share the brews you’re proud of, and follow friends to see what they’re drinking. Connect instantly with a QR code. • Automatic label reading from a photo • Per-bag brew logs with method, dose, time, grind, rating, and notes • A built-in brew timer • A gallery of your favorite mugs • A running Recap of your coffee habits • Optional social feed with follow, QR connect, and full privacy controls Your journal lives on your device. Sharing is always your choice, review by review.

Screenshots

Flavor Notes4 screens
Coffee Notes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Coffee Notes at 15.0 against Flavor Notes's 17.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Flavor Notes against 5.0 for Coffee Notes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Flavor Notes versus Coffee Notes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlavor NotesCoffee Notes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNeha SrivastavaJONATHON TIMOTHY MORTON

In-app purchases

None

Flavor Notes

No in-app purchases

None

Coffee Notes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flavor Notes free?
Flavor Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Coffee Notes free?
Coffee Notes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Flavor Notes or Coffee Notes?
Flavor Notes and Coffee Notes are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Flavor Notes or Coffee Notes have ads?
Neither Flavor Notes nor Coffee Notes shows ads.

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