Comparison

ChaJi vs Loafy

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

Head to head
About

ChaJi

Features
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Cha Ji is a focused tea journal for gong fu cha enthusiasts. Keep a record of every tea you own, every brew you make, and the notes that help you improve, all stored privately on your device and synced via iCloud. JOURNAL Add teas with name, type, origin, vendor, harvest season, star rating, and a purchase link. Log brew sessions for each tea: temperature, leaf weight, water volume, vessel, steep times, and free-form notes. Mark whether you want to buy a tea again. Search and filter your whole collection by type, rating, or buy-again status. BREW SESSIONS Each tea keeps a numbered session log. Record the date, vessel (gaiwan, teapot, or custom), temperature, grams, milliliters, individual steep durations, tasting notes, and a "next time" note to guide your next brew. Session parameters carry over automatically so you spend less time filling in forms. BREWING REFERENCE The Brewing tab shows gongfu starting-point ratios for every major tea style: green, white (tender and aged), yellow, oolong, black, raw pu'er, and ripe pu'er - with temperature guidelines. Dial in your vessel size with the slider and the leaf amounts scale to match. CLEAN AND FOCUSED No accounts. No subscriptions. No social features. Just a well-organized place to keep your tea notes.

About

Loafy

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Bake better sourdough, from starter to crumb. Free, no ads, from the author of The Sourdough Framework. Log every bake, follow a guided bake step by step, and get answers from Hendrik's book. KEEP A REAL BAKE JOURNAL Log a bake in three taps: what you baked, when, and how it went. Hydration, salt, starter, bulk time and temperature, how you proofed it, how you baked it. Add photos. Every loaf stays searchable, so the one that worked in March is still there in November. SEE WHAT ACTUALLY WORKS Loafy reads your own bakes back to you: the hydration your best loaves share, how your ratings move as you change one thing at a time, how long your streak is. Not generic advice. Yours. ASK THE BOOK, NOT THE INTERNET Ask Loafy answers from The Sourdough Framework rather than from whatever a search engine turns up. Ask about a specific bake and it reads that bake's numbers before it answers. Every answer points at the chapter it came from. CHECK YOUR CRUMB Photograph the cut loaf and Ask Loafy reads the crumb on The Bread Code's crumb map: underfermented, overfermented, underbaked, or just right. Tell it which bake it was and the answer knows that bake's numbers. WATCH THE PART YOU NEED The Bread Code's videos play inside the guides and start at the moment the step needs, like the shaping part when you shape. Tell Loafy what went wrong with a bake and it shows the part that fixes it. BAKER'S MATH, DONE FOR YOU Bread and pizza calculators that work in baker's percentages. Scale a recipe to the flour you have, or to the number of loaves you want. A dough optimizer that tares your own bowls and bannetons so you can weigh dough without doing arithmetic. GUIDED BAKES Step-by-step journeys for making a starter, reviving one, and baking your first real sourdough loaf. Timers that keep running when you put the phone down. YOUR STARTERS Give them names and birthdays. Keep notes on how they behave. Share a starter's passport with whoever you gave some to. Everything syncs to your free Loafy account, so your journal follows you between devices.

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Verdict

The call

ChaJi and Loafy are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ChaJi versus Loafy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChaJiLoafy
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Daily
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size1 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoy ZwambagAllonsy GmbH

In-app purchases

None

ChaJi

No in-app purchases

None

Loafy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ChaJi free?
ChaJi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Loafy free?
Loafy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ChaJi or Loafy have ads?
Neither ChaJi nor Loafy shows ads.

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