Comparison

brewd vs Kafei

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

Head to head
About

brewd

Log and discover coffees, teas, and other beverages. Rate drinks, add photos, and keep notes to remember your favorites. Explore new cafes and build a wishlist of places and drinks to try.

Highlights
  • Log coffees, teas, and other beverages
  • Rate drinks and add photos
  • Keep notes and journal entries
  • Discover new cafes and flavors
  • Create a wishlist of drinks and cafes
  • Map view of logged cafes
Features
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Find your favorite cup of coffee. brewd is your cozy coffee journal. Keep track of coffees, matcha's, chai lattes, teas, and more. Explore new cafes, flavors, and drinks. Remember the ones you love. Features: - Log the coffees you’ve tried and cafes you’ve visited. - Rate drinks, take a cute photo, log flavors, and add any notes. - Revisit everything you’ve added in your journal. Remember what you want to order again next time. - Try new things. Earn a stamp on your punchcard. - See all the cafes and coffee you’ve logged in a map. - Create a wishlist of cafes and drinks to try in the future. - Not just for coffee lovers. Keep track of your matcha, chai, and tea too. - Made by a small team of two. Terms of use: https://getbrewd.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://getbrewd.app/privacy

About

Kafei

Log every coffee you drink, rate your favorite cafes, and track your caffeine intake. Discover your top spots with a personalized leaderboard and visualize your coffee habits over time. Generate shareable monthly reports of your coffee journey.

Highlights
  • Log coffee cups with photos
  • Rate and rank favorite cafes
  • Track caffeine intake and spending
  • Calendar view of coffee history
  • Search and save cafes on a map
  • Generate shareable monthly reports
Features
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Kafei is your personal coffee diary — a simple way to track every cup and document your favorite cafes. LOG EVERY CUP Snap a photo of your drink and Kafei automatically cleans up the background. Add the cafe, size, price, and rating in seconds. Your caffeine intake is estimated automatically based on the drink you logged. DISCOVER YOUR FAVORITES Kafei ranks your cafes through simple comparisons — "which is the better cup?" — building an honest, evolving leaderboard of where you actually love to drink. SEE YOUR HABITS COME TO LIFE A calendar view of every cup you've ever logged, a running streak counter, and stats on total spend, caffeine intake, and your favorite drinks and cafes over time. SAVE YOUR AESTHETICS Search and save cafes as you go, browse them on a map, and keep photos and notes for each one you visit. SHARE YOUR MONTH Generate a shareable report card of your month in coffee — cups logged, money spent, and your top cafe — ready to save or share. Kafei doesn't sell your data or track you for advertising. Your coffee diary is yours.

Screenshots

brewd4 screens
Kafei4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kafei at none against brewd's 2. Kafei also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.2). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. brewd sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Kafei asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for brewd against 5.0 for Kafei. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

brewd ships an update every 4 days, Kafei weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
brewd versus Kafei: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterbrewdKafei
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemiumFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.216.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB53 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJORDON DANIEL DEHOOGIain Li

Customer experience

brewd

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Kafei

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

brewd

Subscriptions2
  • brewd+ monthly$4.991 Month
  • brewd+ yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
None

Kafei

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is brewd free?
brewd is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kafei free?
Kafei is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, brewd or Kafei?
brewd and Kafei are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do brewd or Kafei have ads?
Neither brewd nor Kafei shows ads.
Which is updated more often, brewd or Kafei?
brewd ships an update every 4 days, and Kafei weekly. Most recently, brewd was updated on November 6, 2026 and Kafei on October 31, 2026.

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