1000Yen Eats vs OLLA Brew Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
1000Yen Eats
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1000Yen Eats helps you find cheap meals in Japan. Every restaurant on the map serves at least one main dish for ¥1,000 or under. WHAT'S INSIDE • 26,423 restaurants across 78 Japanese cities • Real yen prices — sourced from menus, not guessed • JST-aware Open Now toggle (works correctly across timezones) • Cuisine filters: ramen, sushi, izakaya, curry, conbini, café and more • Tap a restaurant for hours, price range, address, photos • Save spots you want to try • Works offline — download a city, browse without signal NO SIGNUP REQUIRED Use the whole app anonymously. Optional Apple Sign In if you want to log meals, build streaks, and follow friends across devices. PRIVACY-FIRST • No ad networks, no tracking SDKs, no IDFA, no analytics SDKs • No App Tracking Transparency prompt — we have nothing to track • Location is used only while the app is open, never stored on our servers • Your meal logs and photos are private by default WHO IT'S FOR Travellers on a budget. Students living in Japan. Anyone who wants to eat well without spending much. Especially useful if you're tired of inflated travel-blog "cheap eats" lists that quote prices from 2019. WHAT IT'S NOT Not a review site. Not a ranking. Not a reservation engine (yet). Just a map of places where you can eat for under ¥1,000. DATA SOURCES Restaurant locations and basic info from OpenStreetMap and Google Places. Map tiles from Mapbox. Provided as-is — always verify hours and prices with the restaurant before going.
OLLA Brew Lab
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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/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 1000Yen Eats at none against OLLA Brew Lab's 3. OLLA Brew Lab's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. OLLA Brew Lab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. 1000Yen Eats asks for nothing beyond the download.
1000Yen Eats ships an update every 6 weeks, OLLA Brew Lab weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 1000Yen Eats | OLLA Brew Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 169 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Krzysztof Hendzel | HU JIANHUA |
In-app purchases
1000Yen Eats
No in-app purchases
OLLA Brew Lab
- OLLA Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- OLLA Pro Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- OLLA Pro Lifetime$29.99









