Food & coffee August 2026
7 coffee apps that aren't a rewards card
Search the App Store for coffee and you get loyalty cards for chains. These seven are about the brewing instead — the timer, the ratio, the method, the caffeine, and the cup worth remembering.
The coffee apps that aren't a rewards card are Timer.Coffee, Coffee Pal, Aeromatic, The Great Coffee App, HiCoffee, Filtru Coffee and FourSix Coffee Timer. I built Coffee Pal; the other 6 are other developers’ apps.
MiaAppLog— an iOS developer who reviews other people’s apps
Published August 2026 · apps and prices last checked 13 October 2026
Timer.Coffee
★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Food & Drink · App Store 5.0 (134)
Timer.Coffee is a brewing timer and ratio calculator that is free and open source. Donations are optional and never gate a feature.
Coffee Pal Editor’s pick
★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · Free · Photo & Video · App Store 5.0 (3)
Coffee Pal is for the cup you had on holiday, the one that is now a photo buried in your camera roll: it keeps the cup, the beans and the method together so you can find it again.
Aeromatic
★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Food & Drink · App Store 4.9 (105)
Aeromatic is built only for the AeroPress: recipes from baristas, roasters and championship winners, walked through step by step.
Skip it if you brew on anything other than an AeroPress, or you want a record of what you drank — it is a guide and a timer, not a log.
The Great Coffee App
★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · $2.99 · Food & Drink · App Store 4.7 (190)
The Great Coffee App is a barista's reference rather than a tracker: what goes into 19 espresso drinks and 10 brewing methods, shown in cross-section with a video for each step.
Skip it if you want ratios: it describes the drinks and the methods without the numbers, and recent versions push you to rate or share before you can look.
HiCoffee
★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Health & Fitness · App Store 4.8 (843)
HiCoffee tracks caffeine rather than flavour, with data for 2,500+ branded drinks and an estimate for whatever you made at home.
Skip it if you drink anything unusual, or you want Health sync — custom drinks and the sync both sit behind the paywall, and the preset list is narrow.
Filtru Coffee
★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Food & Drink · App Store 4.8 (3,786)
Filtru Coffee teaches the method while you brew it, so you come out knowing why the pour is shaped that way.
Skip it if you want it to drive your scale, or to add a method of your own: both draw complaints, and an update broke recipes people had saved.
FourSix Coffee Timer
★★★★★★★★★★4.0 · Free · Food & Drink · App Store 4.9 (227)
FourSix Coffee Timer takes pour over recipes, which get complicated fast, and reduces them to something you can follow at 7am.
Skip it if you liked it simple: the redesign put a plain timer behind a pro mode, and it now opens in the wrong one for most people.
Coffee Pal is one of mine — everything else on this list is someone else’s app. How that works.
Questions
What are the coffee apps that aren't a rewards card?
The coffee apps that aren't a rewards card are Timer.Coffee, Coffee Pal, Aeromatic, The Great Coffee App, HiCoffee, Filtru Coffee and FourSix Coffee Timer. Each one had to do a different job in this particular moment — where two apps work the same way, only one of them makes the list.
Which of these apps is free?
Timer.Coffee, Coffee Pal, Aeromatic, HiCoffee, Filtru Coffee and FourSix Coffee Timer are free to download on the App Store. The others show their price on each card. "Free" on the App Store often means a free download with paid extras inside.
Which of these apps did the author build?
Coffee Pal — I built it. The other 6 are other developers’ apps, and none of them knew they were going to be on this list. There are no affiliate links and no paid placements anywhere on the site.