Comparison

BrewIQ vs Pantry Cook

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

Head to head
About

BrewIQ

This app helps you improve your coffee brewing by providing personalized, actionable advice based on your brew logs and equipment. It learns your preferences and offers simple, specific tweaks for a better cup every time.

Highlights
  • Personalized brew advice
  • Log brews via voice or text
  • Manufacturer-specific recommendations
  • Bean freshness tracking
  • Smart brew timer
  • Searchable brew history
Features
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BrewIQ is the complete coffee companion. A coach that tells you exactly what to change, a log of every brew and every bag, a community to climb, and a marketplace that already knows your taste. Everything you need to go from your first V60 to Coffee God, in one app. Meet Brewy - Your companion Brewy knows your grinder, your machine and the bag you are on. Tell Brewy how the cup tasted and you get one clear fix for tomorrow. "Go to 5 on the Fellow Opus." "Drop to 92°C." "Bloom 10 seconds longer." Real settings for your kit, never general advice. Every brew you log makes the next answer sharper. A Recipe For Your Kit Pick your brewer, grinder and bean and Brewy builds the recipe: dose, grind setting, water, temperature, and a pour schedule to follow. Every recommendation stays inside the range your grinder and machine can actually do. Over 800 grinders, espresso machines and brewers are already in the app, from De'Longhi and Breville to Fellow, Baratza, Hario and AeroPress. Track Your Brews, Tastes and More Dose, grind, temperature, ratio, time and yield for every brew. Origin, process, roast level and roast date for every bag, with a tracker that shows how much is left. Your streak and your history, searchable by day, method and score. BrewIQ knows when a bag is still degassing, at its peak, or fading, and adjusts its advice to match. See Your Taste Evolve Insights show which flavours you rate highest, which roasts and origins suit you, and how your scores move over weeks and months. Your palate, measured. Level Up With Your Friends Earn points for every brew, rating and recipe you share. Climb from Beginner to Home Barista, Dialled In, Barista, World Barista Champion and Coffee God. Unlock badges, keep your streak, and race your friends on the monthly leaderboard. Invite a friend and you both get time on Pro. Buy Beans Matched To Your Tastes The Marketplace scores every coffee from roasters against what you already rate highly, so you know before you buy. Order direct from the roaster and log the bag the day it lands. Download BrewIQ. Better coffee starts tomorrow morning. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Pantry Cook

Features
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Type any dish — biryani, butter chicken, ramen, carbonara — and Pantry builds the recipe around what's actually in your kitchen. Out of cumin? Pantry tells you before you start, not halfway through. No more finding the "perfect" recipe only to realise you're missing half of it. Pantry writes recipes for the kitchen you have, not the one you wish you had. HOW IT WORKS 1. Type the dish you want — anything from weeknight pasta to a full Persian feast 2. Pantry matches it against what's in your kitchen 3. Get a real recipe, scaled to your servings, with missing items flagged before you start Don't know what you want? Snap a photo of your fridge and Pantry suggests dinner from what it sees. Or save your pantry once and let Pantry match recipes to it every day. WHAT YOU GET - Dish-name search — type what you want, get a real recipe built around your pantry - Fridge-to-recipe AI — point your camera at your fridge, get dinner ideas instantly - 439 halal recipes — from Gulf comfort food and Persian classics to Korean weeknight wins and Modern Mediterranean - Occasions — hosting a dinner, Eid, or a party? Get a full themed menu and one combined shopping list (Pro) - Smart pantry tracking so you never forget what you already have - Weekly meal planner — plan breakfast to dinner with calories at a glance - Auto shopping lists from your meal plan, plus manual add with natural quantity parsing ("6 eggs, 1kg rice, milk" sorts itself) - Share recipes and lists via iMessage, WhatsApp, or Mail — friends don't need the app to read them - Dietary preferences built in — Halal, Kosher, Vegetarian, Vegan, Pescatarian, high-protein - Cook mode — clear step-by-step instructions with timers - Recipe scaling for any number of servings PANTRY PRO £3.99/month or £34.99/year (save 27% with the annual plan). Try Pro free — 3 days on monthly, 7 days on yearly. Pro unlocks: - Unlimited AI recipes — both dish-name search and fridge scanning - Full access to the 440+ curated library - Occasions — full themed menus with combined shopping lists - Receipt scanning — auto-add groceries in seconds - Expiry tracking with smart reminders before food goes off - Priority support from the developer Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled. Manage or cancel anytime in iPhone Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. WHY PANTRY Most cooking apps assume you have the time, the ingredients, and the patience to plan dinner three days ahead. Real life isn't like that. You get home, you're tired, the fridge has half an onion and some chicken, and you want biryani. Other apps give you a recipe written for a kitchen you don't have. Pantry writes one for the kitchen you do. Made by an independent developer in the UK. No big team, no investors, no ads — ever. Just one person who got tired of staring into the fridge and built something better. PRIVACY FIRST Your photos are processed for ingredient recognition and immediately discarded. We don't store images, we don't track you, and we don't sell data. No ads in Pantry — ever. SUPPORTED DIETS Pantry adapts recipes for Halal, Kosher, Vegetarian, Vegan, Pescatarian, and high-protein eaters. Set your preferences once and every suggestion respects them. QUESTIONS OR FEEDBACK? Everything you see is actively improved based on what early users tell us. Reach out via the in-app support link — your feedback genuinely shapes what gets built next. — Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://app.termly.io/policy-viewer/policy.html?policyUUID=7dca155a-ca20-4607-9c1c-79938485dc7c

Screenshots

BrewIQ4 screens
Pantry Cook4 screens

Verdict

The call

BrewIQ and Pantry Cook are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. BrewIQ sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month and Pantry Cook sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
BrewIQ versus Pantry Cook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrewIQPantry Cook
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMARC ANTHONY YOUNGArbaz Patel

In-app purchases

1 purchases

BrewIQ

Subscriptions1
  • BrewIQ Pro$3.991 Month
2 purchases

Pantry Cook

Subscriptions2
  • Pantry Cook Pro3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Pantry Cook Pro$39.991 Year

Questions

Is BrewIQ free?
BrewIQ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pantry Cook free?
Pantry Cook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BrewIQ or Pantry Cook have ads?
Neither BrewIQ nor Pantry Cook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BrewIQ or Pantry Cook?
BrewIQ ships an update weekly, and Pantry Cook weekly. Most recently, BrewIQ was updated on October 29, 2026 and Pantry Cook on October 24, 2026.

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