Brewmaster vs Odyssey Espresso
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.
Odyssey Espresso
Monitor your espresso machine's performance with real-time metrics and detailed brew plots. Save and review past brews with tasting notes, and use them as overlays for consistent results.
- Real-time brew metrics
- Brew plotting (weight, pressure, ratio, flow)
- Save brews with tasting notes
- Overlay old brews for consistency
- Fluid level monitoring
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- Shows metrics about the Odyssey Espresso Argos like brew set temperature, boiler temperature, group-head temperature, fluid level. - Plot brews tracking weight, pressure, brew ratio, and flow rate. - Save brews to review with tasting notes. Use old brews as an overlay to brew the same cup of espresso
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Odyssey Espresso at 100% against Brewmaster's 16%. Odyssey Espresso also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.7) and device support (3 vs 1). Brewmaster's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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.
Odyssey Espresso holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of Brewmaster's written reviews are positive against 100% of Odyssey Espresso's.
Brewmaster ships an update monthly, Odyssey Espresso every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brewmaster | Odyssey Espresso |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 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 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | acaia | Odyssey Espresso, LLC |
Customer experience
Brewmaster
Odyssey Espresso
In-app purchases
Brewmaster
No in-app purchases
Odyssey Espresso
No in-app purchases
Questions
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