Beanconqueror

This app is awesome! It is the only app I could find that’s completely free. There are no features hidden behind a paywall and there are zero ads in the app! Amazing support and care by the developer. There are tons of features in this app and almost all of them are customizable. You will never have to guess how to make that perfect cup/shot again when using this app. It’s super easy to use and navigate around, the sharing feature is fantastic. It simply shares an image of your brew with all the stats and doesn’t send a link to download the app, a small feature I love! I enjoy the ability to add pictures of what I’m using. There are so many features in this app I haven’t gotten to yet, and the ones I have used are great. Definitely a must-have app

I have an Acaia Pearl S, and have used other apps that can use this scale with BT paring for flow rate and just help me keep consistent brews. I found this app through Reddit and thought I’d give it a try, I like it better for keeping track of my brews because it keeps grinders, grind size and other things in memory for past brews. The issue I have is with scale paring. It’s a nightmare. The scale will disconnect and connect automatically, a pop up will appear stating that this is common with iOS devices and to just reconnect it, the issue still persists. If you don’t clear the pop-up message immediately, it will stack on top of one another and the screen will eventually go black, and you need to clear every notification to use the app again. So I just don’t use my scale, which is the main reason for the app for me. Other apps don’t have connectivity issues for me like this one does. It would be nice for the current brew you are working on, you could save the weight of the vessel, so once you finish, just add the total weight and I’ll find the difference, but you can only do that all at once, would be a nice addition imo. The app as a journal is pretty good though, some minor tweaks to the ui would be nice and the scale connectivity issues resolved, and it would be fantastic.

For the most part it is a very comprehensive brewing app but unfortunately not in a way that I personally find helpful in getting consistent brews. What it doesn’t do is give the ability to record weight and start/finish time of each pour for a given brew. This is really the most important information for brewing consistently. It would also be helpful to be able to record the time you finish pouring the bloom. I find the built in timer to be too small and a lot of the icons are not dark enough and not so easy to distinguish. On the positive side it does record brew water temp, brew water, TDS and will calculate extraction if you can measure TDS, among other things. It’s bean and brew method information storage is pretty comprehensive also but while on one hand it will subtract your brew dose weight from the recorded coffee weight of whatever bean you use the adjusted bean weight will never really be accurate as there will always be some loss between weighed out beans and the actual dose weight. Some may not notice this without a precise and accurate scale. It would be helpful to have a bean weight for each brew that is used to subtract from the bean’s total weight and then a dose weight that is used to correctly calculate extraction and keep brew repeatability. So when you add brew method info... DO NOT archive it unless you will not use it. You can unarchive it and then use it. Maybe a stupid mistake on my part but I did it and it wouldn’t let me brew initially.