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…
We're two coffee nerds who built an AI app to track beans and recipes launched on June 30, 2025 with 60 votes, #520 of 7,999 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
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 size, rest dates, roaster information, and tasting notes in one place. The app preserves the unique characteristics and stories of each coffee, addressing the common frustration that specialty coffee details scatter across photos and notebooks or disappear once beans sell out.
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From the sources
Track, Explore & Ask AI about your coffee beans. Capture each bag with just a photo or URL. Log brewing data through a playful UX. Get answers from BeanBook AI about the coffee beans you love.
Track coffee beans, discover specialty coffee drops, save brew recipes, scan coffee bags with AI, and build your coffee memory with BeanBook.
Your bean shelf, brew guides and gear records, side by side. Brewers, grinders, kettles, scales — rate them, and keep grind settings where you'll actually look. Reminders when resting ends and peak flavor begins, freezer days that don't age the bean, and every grinder's dial saved perfrom beanbook.app
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
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