Brewed vs Bloom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Brewed
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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.
Bloom
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Bloom turns your phone into a brew bar. Connect an Acaia scale over Bluetooth and it reads your pour in real time ā weight, flow rate, and every target ā so you can keep your eyes on the kettle instead of the numbers. LIVE SCALE, NOT JUST A TIMER ⢠Connects to Acaia Lunar and Pearl over Bluetooth ⢠The gauge fills as you pour, and taps you when you hit each target ⢠No scale? Every recipe falls back to a plain timer GUIDED BREWS ⢠Nine built-in methods: V60, Chemex, Kalita Wave, AeroPress, French press, moka pot and more ⢠Every step calls its pour weight, its time, and its water temperature ⢠Setup tutorials tailored to each brewer ā a Chemex is not a V60, and Bloom knows it BRING YOUR OWN RECIPES ⢠Photograph a roaster's card or open a PDF ā Bloom reads it and builds the method ⢠Works in Arabic and English, entirely on your device ⢠Full editor: ratio lock, servings scaling, per-pour targets and temperatures REMEMBERS EVERY CUP ⢠Save each brew with its time, yield, rating and notes ⢠Find out whether Tuesday's 1:15 really did beat Wednesday's 1:14 COMMUNITY ⢠Browse and rate recipes shared by other people ⢠Publish your own, or keep them to yourself ARABIC, PROPERLY Bloom is fully localised in Arabic with right-to-left layout ā not an afterthought. No ads. No tracking. No subscription. Your recipes stay on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Bloom at 17.0 against Brewed's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Brewed | Bloom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lorenzo D'Ianni | abdulla almehrzi |
In-app purchases
Brewed
No in-app purchases
Bloom
No in-app purchases









