Comparison

OLLA Brew Lab vs DOSE

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

Head to head
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/

About

DOSE

Analyze your coffee grind size with just a photo, using anything from a napkin to a kitchen towel. Get detailed particle distribution data and brew-method guidance to improve your coffee.

Highlights
  • Photo-based grind analysis
  • Particle distribution metrics
  • Brew-method recommendations
  • AI Barista insights
  • Save and share analysis
  • Grind history comparison
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DOSE analyzes your coffee grind size from a single photo. Even a kitchen towel or napkin works perfectly. Measure your grind at home or at the café in seconds. ■ Measuring is simple • Spread the grounds Scatter your ground coffee evenly over a sheet of paper, a napkin, or a kitchen towel. • Find good light Natural light or bright indoor lighting is all you need. Just avoid harsh shadows. • Set distance and angle Follow the on-screen guide: hold the camera about 18–24 cm away and parallel to the surface. • Capture Center the grounds in the frame and take one shot. That's it. ■ What you'll learn • Particle distribution See D10 (small) · D50 (median) · D90 (large), mean, fines ratio, uniformity, and more — alongside a distribution histogram. • Brew-method guidance Get advice on grinding finer or coarser for espresso, pour-over, French press, and other methods. • AI Barista insights (on supported devices, iOS 26+) Reads your results and suggests how to dial in your next cup. • Save and share Save your analysis card as an image and share it. ■ What's coming • Compare your history Line up your saved measurements to track how grind size shifts with each grinder setting — and how consistent it stays. ■ Made for • Home brewers who want more consistent extractions • Anyone dialing in a new grinder by the numbers • People who want to tell espresso and filter grinds apart precisely • Baristas who want to check grind uniformity and fines firsthand Taste the difference in every cup — backed by data.

Screenshots

OLLA Brew Lab4 screens
DOSE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DOSE at none against OLLA Brew Lab's 3. OLLA Brew Lab's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.2). 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. OLLA Brew Lab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. DOSE asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
OLLA Brew Lab versus DOSE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOLLA Brew LabDOSE
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.2
Further details — not scored
Size169 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHU JIANHUASeungHo Choi

In-app purchases

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
None

DOSE

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is OLLA Brew Lab free?
OLLA Brew Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is DOSE free?
DOSE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do OLLA Brew Lab or DOSE have ads?
Neither OLLA Brew Lab nor DOSE shows ads.

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