Comparison

BeanCellar vs OLLA Brew Lab

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

Head to head
About

BeanCellar

Log your coffee beans, track brewing parameters, and record tasting notes to understand and improve your coffee experience. Compare beans and brews with detailed stats and visual charts. Designed for focused coffee enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Organized bean cellar with origin and roast details
  • Customizable pour-over and espresso brew recipes
  • Brew timer with stage tracking
  • Detailed tasting notes and ratings
  • TDS and extraction yield tracking
  • Side-by-side bean and brew comparison
  • Brewing statistics and trends
Features
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BeanCellar is a coffee journal and bean cellar built for people who want to understand what they brew, not just write it down. Keep an organized record of your coffee beans, roast dates, freshness stages, origins, processing methods, prices, flavor profiles, and notes. Plan pour-over and espresso brews with adjustable recipes, timers, dose, yield, temperature, grind size, and brew stages. After each brew, save ratings, tasting notes, taste issues, photos, TDS readings, and extraction yield. Compare beans or brew records side by side, review flavor and rating radar charts, and use stats to see how your brewing habits change over time. BeanCellar helps you answer practical questions: - Which beans tasted best? - How fresh is this coffee now? - What recipe did I use last time? - Did grind size, temperature, or ratio improve the cup? - Which beans and brew methods do I use most? Core features: - Bean cellar with roast date, freshness, origin, process, price, notes, and photos - Pour-over and espresso brew setup - Brew timer with custom recipes and brew stages - Tasting journal with ratings, notes, photos, and taste issue tags - TDS and extraction yield tracking - Bean and brew comparison views - Brewing stats and trends - Custom flavor labels, rating labels, process methods, and freshness ranges with BeanCellar Pro - Temperature and currency preferences - Light, dark, and system appearance modes BeanCellar is designed to be quiet, fast, and focused, so you can spend less time managing notes and more time improving your coffee. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

OLLA Brew Lab

Features
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OLLA Brew Lab is a coffee workbench for iPhone and iPad that keeps roast curves, brew logs and cupping records in one place. It is made for home roasters, specialty coffee enthusiasts and small roasters. Bean cards, brew logs and cuppings are free. In Roast to Cup, the roastery workbench for curves, roast profiles and inventory, the design workbench opens free; adding and delivering are OLLA Pro. ROAST CURVES (OLLA PRO) Log a roast live with large buttons for charge, yellowing, first crack and drop; development ratio and weight loss follow from what you record. Replay any curve, compare batches, and set a batch as your baseline. Import curve files in 11 formats; the source is detected from the file itself. ROAST PROFILES: DESIGN BEFORE YOU CHARGE Free: dial targets for first crack, drop and development ratio, and read the projected first-crack window, drop temperature and development ratio, with no machine connection. With OLLA Pro, save a design to the curve library, start a roast from it, or export it as .alog, JSON or CSV. YOUR BEAN LIBRARY One card per bag: origin, variety, process, estate, altitude, roast level, roast date, purchase details and your own notes. Resting and drinking windows count down on their own; a Home Screen widget shows a pinned bean. Photograph a label, a bean list or a cafe menu and OLLA reads it on device, showing the words each field came from; nothing is saved until you confirm. On supported devices, Apple Intelligence fills gaps, corrects misreadings and adds explanations and translation in three languages, all on device. The Coffee Codex holds 1,700+ cross-linked entries, from origins and varieties to processing and brewing. BREW LOG Record dose, grind, water temperature, ratio, TDS, extraction yield, timing and sensory impressions. The Tools tab sits alongside, with a step-recipe brew timer, an extraction-yield calculator and brewing-water recipes. CUPPING Score on a classic ten-attribute sheet, or use sensory scoring: cup profile, quality impression and five-cup consistency. Describe flavor with 16 everyday words or the full flavor wheel, and export a cupping sheet as a PDF. OLLA Pro adds multi-sample blind assessment, with cup-by-cup records and a five-class verdict from L5 to L1. FIELD GUIDE City coffee guides, one volume per city, readable offline. Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Fukuoka are published; the other cities on the city bar are marked Planned. Each list is selected from public data by OLLA's own scoring. COFFEE JOURNAL Beans, brews, cuppings and roasts stay linked, gathered in one archive with search, filters and yearly stats. HOW PEOPLE USE OLLA · A home roaster designs the next batch, logs it, and cups it a few days later on the same bean card. · A specialty coffee drinker scans a new bag, watches its resting window and dials in a pour over. · A small roaster keeps green and roasted stock, lot codes and labels in one ledger with OLLA Pro. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No sign-up is required. No tracking, no ads, no third-party analytics. Your records stay on your device, and in your own iCloud if you turn on sync. Camera access is requested only when you scan and photo access only when you pick a photo; recognition runs on device. OLLA works in English, Simplified Chinese and Japanese. OLLA PRO OLLA Pro includes adding and delivering in Roast to Cup, iCloud sync across devices, PDF reports with your shop name, advanced widgets, and selected LAB chapters and data. Roast and inventory records from before 1.3.0 stay viewable. OLLA Pro is a monthly or annual auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time purchase; the annual plan includes a 7-day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. A subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

BeanCellar4 screens
OLLA Brew Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: OLLA Brew Lab at 16.0 against BeanCellar's 26. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. BeanCellar sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and OLLA Brew Lab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
BeanCellar versus OLLA Brew Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBeanCellarOLLA Brew Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS2616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB169 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer清源 欧阳HU JIANHUA

In-app purchases

3 purchases

BeanCellar

Subscriptions2
  • BeanCellar Pro Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • BeanCellar Pro Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • BeanCellar Pro One-Time Purchase$19.99
3 purchases

OLLA Brew Lab

Subscriptions2
  • OLLA Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • OLLA Pro Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • OLLA Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is BeanCellar free?
BeanCellar is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OLLA Brew Lab free?
OLLA Brew Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BeanCellar or OLLA Brew Lab have ads?
Neither BeanCellar nor OLLA Brew Lab shows ads.

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