Comparison

Percolate vs BrewGi

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

Head to head
About

Percolate

Discover coffee beans tailored to your unique taste preferences. This app learns your ideal roast, acidity, and flavor profiles to recommend specific bags. It also helps you track your coffee inventory and find deals on your favorite brews.

Highlights
  • Personalized Coffee DNA
  • Daily taste-matched recommendations
  • Extensive bag database
  • Scan bag labels for info
  • Coffee inventory tracking
  • Price watching for Pro users
Features
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Percolate learns what you actually like in a cup, then points you at bags worth buying. Answer a few questions about how you take your coffee and it builds your Coffee DNA: your roast, the acidity you want, the body you like, the flavors you keep reaching for. From then on the recommendations follow your own taste, bag by bag. What's inside: - Your Coffee DNA, sharpening a little each time you rate a cup - A pick for today matched to your taste, plus one to brew from a bag you already own - Hundreds of real bags from roasters worth knowing, narrowed by roast and flavor - Scan a bag's label with your camera to pull up its profile and where to buy it - A shelf that tracks your bags, from wishlist to finished - Buying takes two taps and hands you to the roaster's own checkout Percolate Pro watches prices for you. Follow the coffees you want and we'll tell you the moment one gets cheaper, so you stop paying full price out of habit. Pro raises your daily scan limit as well. We earn a small commission when you buy through a link. It doesn't change what we recommend or what you pay. You don't need an account to start. Your taste stays on your phone until you decide to sign in. Percolate Pro is an auto-renewable subscription. Pricing: $3.99 per month or $24.99 per year, with a one-time $39 Lifetime unlock also available. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use: https://percolateapp.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://percolateapp.com/privacy

About

BrewGi

Features
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A pour-over coffee journal for logging every brew. Record beans, grind, water, temperature and time alongside how it tasted, and time each pour with the built-in timer. As your log grows, yield and taste stats show how your coffee is changing. ■ Five steps, then done Beans, brewing, tasting, rating, save. A timer is built in, so you can start it the moment you begin pouring. Add a photo and the cup is captured. ■ A timer that tracks every pour Split a brew into bloom and pours, with the time and water for each. Open a saved brew and the pour guide walks you through the same timing again. ■ A suggestion for your next brew Based on how you rated bitterness, acidity and body, BrewGi suggests one change to try next: water temperature or amount. Your best brew with each bean is one tap away. ■ Yield and strength, calculated Enter dose, water, final beverage weight and TDS, and BrewGi computes extraction yield and brew ratio for you. No refractometer? Ratio alone is enough to get started. ■ Two tasting modes Quick mode covers sweetness, acidity, body, bitterness and finish. Detailed mode follows the SCA approach with up to ten attributes across four temperature stages, so you can see how the cup changes as it cools. ■ Bean collection and inventory Keep origin, process, variety, altitude and roast level (with Agtron) in one place. Add purchase amount and open date, and remaining weight and aging days are tracked automatically from your logged doses. ■ Statistics that reveal your taste Yield trends, a taste radar, brewer and origin distribution, your top-rated beans. The more you log, the clearer your preferences become. ■ Save recipes, brew them again Store a great extraction as a preset and load it next time. Tap "brew again" and the beans and parameters are filled in for you. ■ Share your brews Share a great cup as an image card or a link. Whoever opens it can recreate the same recipe in the app. ■ BrewGi Pro Read the Brewing Control Chart to spot under- and over-extraction at a glance, compare two brews side by side, and unlock full-period statistics. Cancel anytime. Available in English, Korean and Japanese. Pour-over (V60, Kalita, Chemex, Clever), AeroPress, French press, Moka pot, espresso, cold brew — log any method. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://brewgi.com/privacy

Screenshots

Percolate4 screens
BrewGi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Percolate at none against BrewGi's shown. BrewGi's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Percolate sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and BrewGi sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Percolate ships an update every 3 weeks, BrewGi every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Percolate versus BrewGi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPercolateBrewGi
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB69 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTimberline Ventures LLCYOUNGDO KIM

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Percolate

Subscriptions1
  • Percolate Pro (Monthly)$3.991 Month
One-time1
  • Percolate Pro (Lifetime)$39.00
3 purchases

BrewGi

Subscriptions3
  • BrewGi Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • BrewGi Pro Event Yearly$11.991 Year
  • BrewGi Pro Yearly$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Percolate free?
Percolate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is BrewGi free?
BrewGi is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Percolate or BrewGi have ads?
BrewGi shows ads; Percolate does not.
Which is updated more often, Percolate or BrewGi?
Percolate ships an update every 3 weeks, and BrewGi every 3 days. Most recently, Percolate was updated on October 31, 2026 and BrewGi on November 6, 2026.

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