Beer Styles vs Tilt 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beer Styles
Access comprehensive beer style guidelines with vital statistics like gravity, bitterness, color, and alcohol content. Visual representations of key stats help users easily understand differences between styles.
- BJCP Style Guidelines
- Vital stats (OG, FG, IBU, SRM, ABV)
- Aroma, appearance, flavor, mouthfeel descriptions
- Visual representation of stats
- Easy comparison of beer styles
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The guidelines include vital stats such as OG (original gravity), FG (final gravity), IBU (bitterness), SRM (colour), and ABV readings as well as descriptions for aroma, appearance, flavour, and mouth feel. In Beer Styles all the vital stats have been given a visual representation to make it easier to fathom the differences in styles.
Tilt 2
This app reads data from your Tilt hydrometer, offering cloud logging to popular brewing platforms. It includes advanced calibration features for specific gravity and temperature, supporting multiple units and easy data sharing.
- Read Tilt hydrometer data
- Cloud logging to brewing platforms
- Specific gravity and temperature calibration
- Selectable logging intervals
- Data sharing
- Celsius/Fahrenheit and Plato/SG unit support
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Features of the app include reading data from your Tilt™ hydrometer, cloud logging to a variety of cloud services including Sheets, brewstat.us, brewfather.net, monitor.beer, craftmetrics.ca, and brewersfriend.com. Logging features including selectable time intervals as well as logging directly to your iPhone or iPad. Calibration features include specific gravity and temperature with ability to add/remove individual calibration points as needed. Auto-removal of calibration points that overlap. In addition the app supports Celsius and Fahrenheit as well as Plato and SG units. Improve UI makes it easier than ever to access and share your data. We are constantly making improvements, thank you all for your feedback and support.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Beer Styles at 96% against Tilt 2's 34%. Beer Styles also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.0). Tilt 2's advantage is iOS requirement (9.3 vs 17.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Beer Styles holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 29 and 45 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of Beer Styles's written reviews are positive against 34% of Tilt 2's.
Beer Styles ships an update every 6 weeks, Tilt 2 every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Beer Styles | Tilt 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (29 ratings) — better | 3.0 (45 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 96.3% of reviews — better | 34.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 45 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 9.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Matias Korhonen | BARON BREW EQUIPMENT, LLC |
Customer experience
Beer Styles
Tilt 2
In-app purchases
Beer Styles
No in-app purchases
Tilt 2
No in-app purchases
