OLLA Brew Lab vs CoffeeStory
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
CoffeeStory
This app helps pour-over coffee enthusiasts meticulously record brewing parameters for each coffee bean. It automatically generates convergence curves to visualize progress and allows for detailed flavor tagging and recipe saving.
- Independent bean profiles
- Detailed brewing parameter logging
- Automatic convergence curve generation
- Flavor tagging
- Recipe saving
- Brewing parameter sharing cards
- Data export
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CoffeeStory(这包怎么冲)是一款专为手冲咖啡爱好者设计的冲煮参数记录工具。 每包豆子独立建档,记录每一次冲煮的研磨度、粉量、水温、分段注水等关键参数。冲完打个分,系统自动生成收敛曲线,让你清晰看到每一杯的进步方向。 主要功能: • 豆架管理:为每包豆子建立独立档案,追踪养豆进度 • 冲煮记录:快速记录研磨度、粉水比、水温、分段注水、时间、风味评分 • 收敛曲线:自动绘制酸度、甜度、醇厚度、余韵、平衡趋势图 • 注水分段:按闷蒸、分段展示每段水量与时间 • 调参提示:记录下次想调整的方向,下杯自动带到眼前 • 风味标签:为每杯标记草莓、花香等风味特征 • 配方库:毕业归档,最佳参数一键保存 • 分享卡片:生成精美的冲煮参数图,支持自定义背景 • 数据导出:完整 JSON 备份
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CoffeeStory at none against OLLA Brew Lab's 3. CoffeeStory also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). 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. CoffeeStory asks for nothing beyond the download.
OLLA Brew Lab ships an update weekly, CoffeeStory every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | OLLA Brew Lab | CoffeeStory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 169 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HU JIANHUA | 万军 龙 |
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
CoffeeStory
No in-app purchases









