Brewmaster vs Coffee Terms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brewmaster
This app logs your coffee brewing process, visualizing data in real-time with a connected scale. It helps you understand extraction, ratios, and share your brewing moments.
- Log brewing process, methods, notes, and flavors
- Real-time visualized brewing charts
- Monitor extraction amount and duration
- Coffee ratio converter
- Share brewing print cards
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Introducing “Brewmaster” Log your coffee brewing moment with Brewmaster. Using the acaia scale with the Brewmaster to create beautiful and informative visualized coffee brewing data which helps you to know your brewing better. A coffee log that does a live recording of your coffee brewing process, using acaia’s precise weighing technology, when you brew your coffee on the acaia coffee scale, whether it’s pourover or espresso, you can easily monitor the amount and the duration of coffee extraction. Features: Log-a-brew: Log your brewing process, methods, notes, and coffee flavors, brew better coffee with the acaia coffee scale. Real-time Visualize Brewing Print : improve coffee brewing with the real-time flow charts that reflects your pouring speed, flow rate, learn the way of coffee extraction and brew a mind-blowing cup of coffee with great flavor. And… Coffee Ratio Converter: Easy calculation of water to bean, or bean to water ratio. Celebrate The Moment: Share your brewing print cards with friends, remember the great times and great tastes.
Coffee Terms
Explore over 500 coffee-related terms and definitions. Easily search or browse alphabetically to understand the complex language of coffee. This guide helps demystify coffee jargon for enthusiasts and beginners alike.
- Over 500 coffee terms
- Search functionality
- Alphabetical browsing
- Clear definitions
- User-friendly interface
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Get to know your coffee, from espresso and latte to brewing, beans and flavor. Coffee Terms brings together more than 2,500 terms in 14 categories, with explanations in English and Danish. SEE WHAT IS IN THE CUP Explore coffee drinks with illustrations, ingredients, indicative proportions and optional labels. Compare two drinks and understand what makes them different. Recipes vary, and ingredients may be mixed in the finished drink. FIND AND SAVE Search names, synonyms and explanations. Search also helps with minor spelling mistakes. Save your favorites, share entries and use the library offline within your access. EXPLORE THE COFFEE WORLD • Drinks and brewing • Equipment, water and chemistry • Milk and latte art • Flavor and aroma • Roasting and processing • Growing, beans and varieties • Origins, quality and defects • Maintenance and coffee culture Illustrations, process explanations and geographical maps help you understand the terms. Flavor images show associations, not ingredients added to the coffee. SEND FEEDBACK Send an idea or report a problem directly from an entry without an account. Email is optional. COFFEE TERMS PRO Open free terms daily, or unlock the complete library with a monthly, three-month or annual subscription, or Pro – one-time purchase. Pay once. No automatic renewal. All Pro plans provide the same access. Prices and Restore Purchases are available in the app. Subscriptions renew automatically and can be canceled through Apple. A one-time purchase does not cancel an existing subscription. Privacy: https://ambisapp.com/apps/coffee-terms/privacy.en.html Terms: https://ambisapp.com/apps/coffee-terms/terms.en.html Apple standard license: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Coffee Terms at 5.0 against Brewmaster's 1.7. Coffee Terms also leads on device support (4 vs 1). Brewmaster's advantage is monetization model (free vs paid) and update cadence (monthly vs every 7 months). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Coffee Terms holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brewmaster has 18 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Brewmaster ships an update monthly, Coffee Terms every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brewmaster | Coffee Terms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 147 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +12 |
| Developer | acaia | Emil Starup |
Customer experience
Brewmaster
Coffee Terms
Bugs and requests
Brewmaster
Reported bugs
24 issues- App crashes frequently
- Bluetooth connection unreliable
- Saved images not showing
- Data not saved or deleted randomly
- Timer skips seconds or is inaccurate
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- App crashes when accessing specific features (e.g., kettle settings)
- Cannot edit water or update profile picture
- CSV output incomplete
- App crashes on startup
- Cannot pair with scale
- Lost data after crash
- Saving photos not working
- Connectivity broken after updates
- Auto-start has significant lag
- Background process drains phone battery
- Flow rate measurement changed/inaccurate
- Cannot measure to a tenth of a gram
- Timer only begins when espresso lands in cup, not when start is pressed
- App adds extra seconds to total brew time
- Average flow rate not calculated or displayed
- Information from other apps not retrieved
- Cannot save brew curves after update
- Automatic transfer of notes from one shot to the next
- Timer on scale doesn't run if app is running
Requested features
18 requests- Hire a better software team
- Improve app stability and maintenance
- Update UI to be more modern
- Allow manual data input
- Add dark mode
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- Improve graph readability
- Add flow rate calculator
- Sync scale timer and app timer
- Allow 0.1g accuracy in timer mode
- Auto-stop feature
- Search functionality for previous brews
- Comparison of brew charts side-by-side
- Recommendations for brew ratios by coffee type
- Fix display on iPhone 6+
- Allow editing of profile name
- Change 'Tribe' to 'Brew Method'
- API documentation for third-party apps
- One unified app instead of multiple
Coffee Terms
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Brewmaster
No in-app purchases
Coffee Terms
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Brewmaster free?
Is Coffee Terms free?
Which has better reviews, Brewmaster or Coffee Terms?
Do Brewmaster or Coffee Terms have ads?
Which is updated more often, Brewmaster or Coffee Terms?
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