BrewFave
Coffee journal for iPhone and iPad
Remember every coffee you love.
A beautiful journal for the coffees you brew, the bags you buy, and the cafés you love.
Free on iPhone and iPad. No account. No sponsored picks.
Your taste, not ads
Only the coffees you love.
BrewFave doesn't sell spots. No roaster or café can pay to show up in your journal or your search results.
No sponsored picks
Nothing is promoted, and nobody pays to be featured. What you see isn't for sale.
Any coffee, any café
Add a bag from any roaster and search for any shop. You're never limited to a list we picked.
Built on your ratings
Your top origin and favorite flavors come from what you rated, not from what someone wants to sell.
Scan a bag
Point. Scan. It's in your journal.
Point your iPhone at a coffee bag. BrewFave fills in the name, roaster, origin, process, roast and tasting notes.
- Only what's on the bag. BrewFave records what's actually printed. It never makes details up.
- Reads right on your device, for free. For tricky curved or tiny print, you can ask for an optional AI read.
- Fills in the gaps. Missing details come from the roaster's own online shop and a catalog of 18,000+ roaster coffees that refreshes every week.
Your coffee journal
Every bag, remembered.
Keep track of what you've tried and how much you liked it, so your next bag is an easy pick.
- Rate every coffee from "Hated" to "Really loved".
- Save the details: tasting notes, origin, process and roast.
- Keep a wishlist of coffees you want to try.
- Browse by roaster to see everything you've had from each one.
- See your taste at a glance: your top origin and the flavors you love most.
Log every brew
A brew log that fits your method.
The form changes with how you brew, and every field is optional. Log only what you know.
- V60
- Chemex
- Other pour-overs
- AeroPress
- Espresso
- French press
- Clever / Hario Switch
- Drip machine
- Moka pot
- Cold brew
- Anything else you name
Other pour-overs include Kalita Wave, Origami, Orea and more.
Pour-over
A timed pour schedule, set with scroll wheels, like "pour to 150 g".
Espresso
Dose, yield, shot time, and the drink you made: cortado, flat white, latte and more.
Steep methods
Steep times for French press and Clever, in hours for cold brew.
The ratio, worked out
Final yield is tracked apart from water. The ratio is labeled clearly: coffee : water, or dose : yield for espresso.
A good place to start
New coffees start with James Hoffmann's V60 recipe. Each coffee remembers your last recipe, and "Brew again" copies it for a fresh result.
Snap a recipe
Take a photo or screenshot of any recipe. BrewFave reads it and fills in the form.
Grinder tools
Any recipe, on your grinder.
Found a recipe written for someone else's grinder? BrewFave turns their setting into the number on your dial, with a micron estimate.
Try it
A few popular grinders. The app has many more.
Find great coffee shops
Find the good cafés, anywhere.
Discover independent cafés near you or anywhere you search, on a map, with the big chains filtered out. No café pays to be listed.
- Want to visit. Save shops you'd like to try.
- Log a visit and what you ordered, and scan the bag you bought. BrewFave remembers what you drank there last time.
- Get directions in Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze.
Now on iPad
Room to spread out.
On iPad, BrewFave opens up. Browse your coffees on one side and read all about the one you picked on the other.
A sidebar
Your sections sit in a sidebar instead of a tab bar.
Side by side
Your coffees and shops show the list and the details together.
Any size window
Works in any orientation, in Split View, and with Stage Manager.
Keyboard shortcuts
⌘1 to ⌘5 switch sections, and ⌘N logs a brew.
Private by design
Your journal stays yours.
No account needed
Your journal lives on your iPhone or iPad.
Photos aren't kept
Bag and recipe photos are read and never saved on our servers.
Read on your device
Most reading happens right on your iPhone or iPad, for free.
iCloud sync Soon
Sync across your devices is coming soon.
Free to use.
BrewFave is free, with no ads and no sponsored picks. It includes free AI reads every month for the trickiest labels.
Little touches.
The small details that make it feel at home on iPhone and iPad.
A warm dark mode
Easy on the eyes for early mornings and late espressos.
Your units
Metric or imperial: °C or °F, km or miles.
Text that grows
Follows your device's text size setting.
Gentle haptics
A soft tap when you save or rate.
Smooth zooms
Pages zoom open from what you tapped.
Made for iPhone and iPad
Designed to feel right at home on both.
Coming soon to iPhone and iPad.
Free, private, and made for the coffees you love.