Brewmaster vs Beansy
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.
Beansy
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Beansy is both a social network and a cupping app designed by coffee professionals for farmers, exporters, importers, roasters, baristas and scientists. Each user can create and share coffee lots, schedule cupping sessions, invite colleagues and track individual cuppings scores as well as global statistics. ADD NEW LOT function enables a user to add data about lot origin, botanic variety, processing method, name of producer, farm and etc. Each user can SCHEDULE A CUPPING SESSION and invite other users to cup specific lots together. QUICK START is a special function to cup first and add data about each lot later. Users can SHARE user PROFILES, LOTS, SESSIONS AND CUPPING RESULTS. The app KEEPS USER’S INDIVIDUAL CUPPING SCORES and TRACKS GLOBAL CUPPING STATISTICS for each lot (overall and by roles: farmers, exporters, importers, roasters, baristas and scientists). BEANSY INTERACTIVE CUPPING FORM is designed to evaluate coffee in both Beansy, CQI (Q) and Oi scores. Unlike CQI cupping form, BEANSY form EVALUATES SWEETNESS and CLEAN CUP parameters in the range from 6 to 10, just like aroma, flavor, acidity, aftertaste, body and overall impression. Due to this Beansy score is a better instrument to differentiate coffee lots with similar acidity into various quality categories. The algorithm automatically converts Beansy into Q score and shows both for user’s reference. Oi is the overall intensity of the coffee, calculated as a sum of all intensity scales. Beansy is the first cupping app with a colorful intuitive design, which helps beginners navigate in the world of professional coffee evaluation.
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Verdict
Brewmaster and Beansy are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
Brewmaster ships an update monthly, Beansy every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brewmaster | Beansy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.7 (18 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 17.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | acaia | Connectivity ltd |
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
Beansy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Brewmaster
No in-app purchases
Beansy
No in-app purchases









