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 order over 600 specialty coffees from independent U.S. roasters, delivered fresh. Explore curated selections, filter by taste and origin, and manage your coffee subscription with ease. Enjoy convenient delivery and track your orders.
- Discover 600+ specialty coffees
- Filter by taste, origin, and roast
- Curated selections by expert
- Manage coffee subscription plans
- Track orders and delivery
- Order with Apple Pay
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Bean Box brings 600+ specialty coffees from independent roasters across the U.S. to your door, freshly roasted in small batches. Every roast is curated by Head Curator Maryna Gray, a Cup of Excellence judge. DISCOVER • Featured coffees, best sellers, new arrivals and seasonal picks, updated as the shop changes • Limited-time deals on select coffees • Explore the world of coffee by origin with our Curator notes • Recently viewed coffees, one tap away SEARCH THE WAY YOU TASTE • Search by coffee, roaster or tasting note • Filter by roast style, like Light & Bright or Medium & Cozy, plus origin, process, decaf and organic • Add your ZIP to see what can arrive soonest EVERY COFFEE, IN DEPTH • Tasting notes, roast profile and the story behind each coffee • Meet the roaster and explore their other coffees • Choose bag size and grind, and read customer reviews LOVE IT, SAVE IT • Tap the heart to keep coffees you want to try • Signed in, your loved coffees sync with your Bean Box account YOUR COFFEE PLAN • Start a plan in the app: choose your tasting experience and how much coffee, then check out • Skip or reschedule a delivery • Change your coffee selection, bag count, and how often it arrives CHECK OUT YOUR WAY • Buy with Apple Pay in one tap, or check out with a card • Send coffee gifts to several people at once, each with a gift note • Select delivery speed for each shipment • Members see member pricing; your Bean Box credit applies at checkout ORDERS AND TRACKING • All your orders in one place, from the last 30 days back to all time • See when an order is ready to ship, on its way and delivered • Track your orders in Apple Wallet • Buy again from any past order • Alerts when your order ships and when it arrives WIDGET • Your next delivery on the Home Screen or Lock Screen YOUR ACCOUNT • Sign in with a one-time code by email or text, with no password to remember • Saved cards, credit balance and receipts • Choose whether to get notifications about deals and new coffees Fresh coffee beans, independent U.S. roasters, and an expert curator to guide your coffee experience. Bean Box: discover your next favorite coffee.
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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 iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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.
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 6, 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 | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| 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








