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24 alternatives to We're two coffee nerds who built an AI app to track beans and recipes
It’s available on iOS now: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id6499280064 We got into specialty coffee during COVID and, like many others, fell deep down the rabbit hole. Along the way, we ran into the same frustrations: - A drawer full of empty coffee bags. - No simple way to track grind size, rest dates, notes—by bean. - My coffee history scattered across photos, screenshots, notebooks, and half-memories. - The unique traits, people, and stories behind each coffee disappearing from the internet once it sold out (since coffee is an agricultural good) - In our opinion, no…
BeanBook is an iOS app that helps specialty coffee enthusiasts organize and track their beans and brewing recipes. Using AI, it automatically extracts information from photos of coffee bags, storing details like grind… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Scan, log, explore coffee & recipes
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I built this website to host a data-driven model of my coffee sample roaster. I realized after 20 or so batches on the machine that while the controls are intuitive (heat, fan, and drum speeds), the physics can be unintuitive. I wanted to use my historical roast data to create and tune a model that I could use to do roast planning, control, and to help me build my own intuition for roasting. This website lets you interact with my roaster in a virtual, risk-free setting! The models are custom Machine Learning modules that honor roaster physics and bean physics (this is not…
2025 · autoroaster.com · its alternatives →
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BrewCat▲11I built a pour-over coffee tracker that logs your brews, visualizes extraction, and uses AI to suggest your next move. Made it to help myself dial in new beans more methodically - technically it can work with Espresso as well, but I haven't really tested it. Based on my experience, the AI is helpful for identifying direction, but not great with specifics. For example, I often make larger adjustments when dialing in - if I’d normally grind 3 clicks finer on my Comandante, the AI suggests just 1 click or a 1°C temp change. I’m still fine-tuning the prompts, but I think it’s promising for those…
2025 · brewcat.io · its alternatives →
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Sleek and sophisticated digital cookbook for coffee
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I've been deep in the specialty coffee rabbit hole for a few years and built this tool to help me dial in espresso and pourover more systematically. *What it does:* • Extraction Compass – click where your shot lands (sour/bitter × weak/strong), get diagnosis and adjustments. It factors in your bean's origin, processing method, roast level, and variety. • Pourover recipes from Hoffmann, Rao, Hedrick, Kasuya (4:6) with step-by-step timer. Water amounts auto-calculate based on your dose. • Interactive WCR Flavor Wheel based on the World Coffee Research Sensory Lexicon 2.0.…
Dec 2025 · brewgreat.coffee · its alternatives →
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Tell Bean what to change and it updates recipe in realtime
Dec 2025 · beanmeals.com · its alternatives →
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Savvy Brew ▲77A beautiful coffee calculator for perfect brews
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I brew coffee and I buy a lot of beans. I’m also a lazy person that doesn’t want to type in all the details in one of the available apps and track things to the grams. Luckily I found out that GPT-4o (free tier) is good enough to take a few photos I uploaded of a bag and parse it’s roaster, varietal, origin, tasting notes, roast date, etc. I tried with a dozen different bags and it works pretty well - even when it makes mistakes I can correct them with natural language conversation, which I enjoyed. Then I had to figure out storage. I don’t want to rely on the chat history / context as…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Track specialty coffee deals for the best sites
Jan 2026 · beandeals.eu · its alternatives →
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An app for coffee discovery from subscription coffee service
2015 · driftaway.coffee · its alternatives →
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Brewguide IO▲77Web app summarizing coffee brewing with submitted data.
2018 · brewguide.io · its alternatives →
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Find local coffee shops quickly and collect unique stamps
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Take a photo of coffee beans. Get an AI brew recipe.
May 2026 · coffee-logs.com · its alternatives →
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