Brewmaster vs SnapDial
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.
SnapDial
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Stop wasting your first six shots. Snap the bag, get your starting numbers, be dialed in by shot two. And when the bag runs out, find the roaster again. SnapDial reads any coffee bag label (roaster, origin, process, roast) and turns it into a concrete grind, dose, and yield recipe for your exact machine and grinder. No generic 1:2 advice: real numbers in your grinder's own units. NEW IN 2.0 • Roaster finder: hundreds of independent roasters in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Search by city, postcode or roaster name and see how far away each one is. Nothing nearby? SnapDial shows the nearest roaster and who ships to you. • Buy it again: once a coffee is dialed in, the recipe shows where to get it again, one tap to the roaster's shop. • Household: everyone who shares the machine gets their own corrections and taste. Free, no limit. • Share card: send your dial-in as a picture. • Near me and map view of all roasters (Pro). Your location stays on your iPhone. WHAT YOU GET • Photograph a bag, get a starting recipe in seconds • One-question feedback loop: taste + flow → exactly one change • Grinder calibration that narrows in on your setup over time (Pro) • Add bags manually without a photo (Pro) • Multiple equipment setups: home and office (Pro) • Community starting points from other owners of your grinder (Pro) • Shot history: last 3 free; full timeline and dial-in stats (Pro) • Coffee school: process and roast basics free; flavour deepening (Pro) • Works in German and English SnapDial is free to use: limited bag scans per month, one equipment setup, last-3 shot history, roaster finder with search and distances, household profiles, basics education, full recipe engine and feedback loop. SnapDial Pro removes the limits and adds calibration, taste profile, manual add, community starts, multi-setup, full history and stats, near me and map in the finder, and the full education library. Purchases restore via Restore purchases on the Pro screen (same Apple ID). Your recipes, shots and equipment stay on your device. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brewmaster at none against SnapDial's 3. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. SnapDial sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Brewmaster asks for nothing beyond the download.
Brewmaster ships an update monthly, SnapDial every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brewmaster | SnapDial |
|---|---|---|
| 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 — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | acaia | Boris Fruendt |
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
SnapDial
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Brewmaster
No in-app purchases
SnapDial
- SnapDial Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- SnapDial Pro Annual7 Days trial$17.991 Year
- SnapDial Pro Lifetime$44.99









