Comparison

BrewTimer 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

BrewTimer

Features
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BrewTimer 是一款为手冲咖啡爱好者打造的冲煮计时与配方管理工具。 你可以在一次冲煮中同时管理时间、注水阶段、粉水比、研磨度、水温与风味记录,让每一杯都更稳定、更容易复现。 核心功能: - 手冲冲煮计时:按阶段引导注水与流尽,支持提示音与触感反馈 - 自定义配方:自由创建多段注水配方,记录粉量、水量、研磨度与风味描述 - 推荐配方:内置多款经典手冲方案,快速开始冲煮 - 冲煮记录:保存每次冲煮结果,回看评分、备注与参数变化 - 咖啡豆与磨豆机管理:记录豆子库存、磨豆机与常用刻度 无论你是在练习 V60、整理常用方案,还是想稳定复现一支豆子的最佳风味,BrewTimer 都能帮你把流程和参数留住。

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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. Roast to Cup, the roastery workbench for curves, roast profiles and inventory, is part of 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 (OLLA PRO) Set targets for first crack, drop and development ratio, and see the first-crack window, drop window and weight loss projected on the spot. No machine connection is needed. Save a design to the curve library, 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 2,000+ 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. For professional sessions, OLLA Pro adds blind-coded 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 still being curated. 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 Roast to Cup (roast curves, pre-roast design, inventory, labels and assessment sessions), iCloud sync across devices, PDF reports with your shop name, and advanced widgets. 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

BrewTimer4 screens
OLLA Brew Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OLLA Brew Lab at none against BrewTimer's 1. OLLA Brew Lab also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.5). BrewTimer's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, ads 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. BrewTimer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. OLLA Brew Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BrewTimer ships an update every 2 days, OLLA Brew Lab weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
BrewTimer versus OLLA Brew Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrewTimerOLLA Brew Lab
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.516.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB169 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer金苹 卢HU JIANHUA

In-app purchases

1 purchases

BrewTimer

One-time1
  • BrewTimer Pro$2.99
None

OLLA Brew Lab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BrewTimer free?
BrewTimer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is OLLA Brew Lab free?
OLLA Brew Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BrewTimer or OLLA Brew Lab have ads?
Neither BrewTimer nor OLLA Brew Lab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BrewTimer or OLLA Brew Lab?
BrewTimer ships an update every 2 days, and OLLA Brew Lab weekly. Most recently, BrewTimer was updated on September 12, 2026 and OLLA Brew Lab on October 9, 2026.

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