Comparison

Brewed vs Kaffedex

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

Head to head
About

Brewed

Features
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Pour the water, listen to the bloom, wait. Pour-over coffee asks for your attention, and Brewed is built to keep you company for those three minutes without stealing the show. Open the app, pick your brewer, pick your recipe. Scale on one side, kettle on the other, the phone tells you only what you need to know right now: how much water to pour, when to stop, how long until the next step. The timer keeps running even when you set the phone down, and a Live Activity on the Lock Screen keeps track of your brew while you reach for the cup. Inside Brewed you'll find five pour-over brewers: Hario V60, Kalita Wave, Chemex, Origami and Hario Switch. Each one comes with a small library of recipes: time-tested classics like the Rao Method, Tetsu Kasuya's 4:6 and the April Brew Guide, sitting alongside newer techniques built specifically for Switch and Origami. Every recipe is dialed in for ratio, grind and timing, so the first time you brew it you already know where to look when you want to push it further. And once the coffee is in the cup, the Journal remembers it for you: every brew lands on a calendar heatmap, with its parameters, grind and tasting notes. Page through the months, reopen a session, and if you forget to log one you can backfill it on the right day. When you feel like understanding what's in the cup, there's the Learn section. Origins and processing, roasting, grinding, and a glossary for the day someone drops "bypass" or "TDS" into the conversation and you want to actually know what they're talking about. Available in five languages. No account, no ads, no tracking. Brewed lives on your phone and does one thing: it helps you make better coffee.

About

Kaffedex

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Dial in espresso in 1โ€“2 shots, not 15. Kaffedex is the espresso companion for baristas and serious home enthusiasts who are tired of wasting beans guessing dose and grind. Log a pull and Kaffedex tells you the next move โ€” dose and grind direction โ€” converging on a great shot in a couple of calibration pulls instead of a dozen throwaways. DIAL IN FASTER โ€ข Log dose, yield, time, grind setting and basket โ€” get a suggested next pull with a dose and a grind adjustment. โ€ข The reasoning runs fully offline. It reads your actual shots; roast level, varietal and process fine-tune the call. โ€ข Grind advice is shown in your grinder's own clicks or marks AND in plain "finer / coarser" โ€” because no two grinders agree on which way the numbers go. KNOWS YOUR GRINDER โ€ข Hand-drawn dials for Niche, Timemore, Lagom, EK43, Mazzer, Weber, Acaia Orbit, Zerno and more โ€” including aftermarket burrs. โ€ข Per-burr calibration that sharpens the more you pull. MEASURE LIKE A PRO โ€ข Extraction dashboard: TDS, extraction yield, and a live shot graph with flow. โ€ข Pair a Bluetooth scale or refractometer to capture weight, time and TDS automatically. THE CODEX โ€” PRO โ€ข A built-in coffee encyclopedia: 60+ variety stories, processing methods, origin countries with shaded-relief terrain maps, Cup of Excellence farms, and a sensory guide. LIVES ON YOUR PHONE โ€ข Home-screen widgets and a Live Activity / Dynamic Island shot timer. โ€ข iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad. โ€ข Share any recipe as a scannable card and import a teammate's dial-in in seconds. Free: up to 4 beans with 20 pulls each, the complete rule-based dial-in engine, every grinder dial, and the full extraction dashboard. Kaffedex Pro: unlimited beans and pulls, the entire Codex, and AI coaching โ€” turn a taste note like "sour and thin" into a concrete adjustment, plus varietal-aware guidance. Less guessing. Fewer wasted shots. Better coffee. โ€” Legal Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://octolabo.app/kaffedex/privacy/

Screenshots

Brewed4 screens
Kaffedex4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brewed at none against Kaffedex's 4. Kaffedex's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Kaffedex sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Brewed asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brewed ships an update every 3 weeks, Kaffedex fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Brewed versus Kaffedex: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrewedKaffedex
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS26.018.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size11 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLorenzo D'IanniCiantury Octojaya

In-app purchases

None

Brewed

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Kaffedex

Subscriptions2
  • Kaffedex Pro (Monthly)3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Kaffedex Pro (Yearly)3 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time2
  • 100 AI Credits (Aipack100)$4.99
  • Kaffedex Pro โ€” Lifetime access$79.99

Questions

Is Brewed free?
Brewed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kaffedex free?
Kaffedex is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Brewed or Kaffedex have ads?
Neither Brewed nor Kaffedex shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brewed or Kaffedex?
Brewed ships an update every 3 weeks, and Kaffedex fortnightly. Most recently, Brewed was updated on October 24, 2026 and Kaffedex on October 31, 2026.

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