Brewmaster vs Bean Box
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.
Bean Box
Discover and receive world-class specialty coffee from over 50 award-winning U.S. roasters. Curated by experts, this app delivers fresh, small-batch coffees to elevate your daily routine and bring you better mornings.
- Specialty coffee delivery
- 50+ award-winning roasters
- Expert curated selections
- Small-batch coffee discovery
- Freshly shipped coffee
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Bean Box is the #1 specialty coffee delivery app. No matter where you live, we'll bring the world’s best specialty coffee to you. Choose coffees from 50+ award-winning roasters across the U.S., curated by a world-class expert, to elevate your morning routine. Discover new and exciting small-batch coffees with every delivery, all shipped fresh for a superior morning cup. We’re on a mission to bring you better mornings. We believe great coffee isn’t just a drink, it’s an experience, and one with the power to make your mornings, and your days, even better. Download Bean Box now and start your journey to better mornings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Bean Box at 82% against Brewmaster's 17%. Bean Box also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.7) and ratings volume (757 vs 18). Brewmaster's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence 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.
Bean Box holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bean Box has 757 ratings behind it against 18, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Brewmaster's written reviews are positive against 82% of Bean Box's.
Brewmaster ships an update monthly, Bean Box every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brewmaster | Bean Box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (18 ratings) | 4.8 (757 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 17.5% of reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 | 757 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | acaia | Bean Box, Inc. |
Customer experience
Brewmaster
Bean Box
User reviews
Brewmaster
From 18 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💯 Scale accuracy and quality
- ☕️ Useful for tracking brews
- 🔄 Replicating favorite brews
- 📊 Real-time flow rate monitoring
- 💡 Potential for pour over training
Room to improve
- 📱 Poor app quality/effort
- 📉 Unstable and crashes often
- 🔗 Bluetooth connectivity issues
- 🗑 Data loss and deletion
- ⏳ Inaccurate timer function
Bean Box
From 757 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Convenient delivery
- 👍 Excellent coffee quality
- 💡 Variety of coffee options
- 🚀 Easy ordering process
- 👍 Great customer service
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy app with limited functionality
- ⚠️ Subscription management issues
- ⚠️ Inconsistent coffee selections
- 🐛 Difficulty making changes to orders
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
Bean Box
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes on opening
- Unable to view account information
- Coupon codes not working as expected
Requested features
4 requests- Search and filtering options for coffees
- Ability to manage subscription details in-app
- Option to switch between whole bean and ground coffee
- Integration of past order history and ratings
In-app purchases
Brewmaster
No in-app purchases
Bean Box
No in-app purchases
