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 coffee tool really captures the flavor, emotion, and aesthetic of great coffee—from a design perspective.
So we built BeanBook—a coffee notebook log beans, extract recipes, and organize your coffee life in one place with just a snap, powered by AI
Here’s what it does:
- Snap a bag → Auto-detects roaster, origin, process, roast date, notes, producer, farm, and more
- Paste a YouTube link or photo → Extracts a structured recipe automatically
- Log grind size, roast timeline, ratings & notes → All saved in a clean, elegant UI
- See your coffee year in review → Track habits, trends, and favorites
- Ask BeanBook AI → From brew temps to bean facts, get instant answers
My co-founder and I built everything ourselves—branding, code, and UX design. If you’re into coffee (or trying to get more into it), we’d love your feedback.
- Rokey & Eric
Just curios - Outside of "AI", what's the benefit of using your app over Beanconqueror (https://beanconqueror.com/), which is open source, has a lot of functionality built out already across multiple years and supports integrations with scales, refractometers, etc?
Not a coffee person, but the design of the app under "Coffee notes reimagined" looks great. However, I think your splash video isn't doing it justice, between the overlayed text and the glare from it being shot outside, I didn't get a sense of how great the UI is till that section down the page.
Best of luck!
Why only accept Google/Apple accounts? Why even require an account? :(
Looks great, hopefully you have plans to bring it to Android. I've been tracking every shot I pull in a coffee journal for the last 2-3 years. While I love writing it all down, it would be quite nice to have all the stats related to habits, trends, spending, etc. I think the biggest frustration I have with home espresso is when I pick up a bag of new beans that I've never tried before, or have no point of reference for, and end up wasting coffee getting it dialed in. It would be great if there was a way to see other peoples brew notes, especially people using similar coffee hardware.
As a coffee aficionado I always wanted this, especially after one of my wine loving friends showed me the Vivino app. I've always wondered why we don't have a similar thing for coffee. Well done!
Congrats on the launch and good luck!
Back when I was home roasting as a hobby, I built a database to track my roast times and tasting notes. I thought it would be interesting to build a database of roast recipes and green bean sourcing, because that was the hardest to remember what I liked best.
As for purchased roasts, I just find a brand I like I stick to it. So not much for me to track.
Congrats on the launch! I have been making a similar app.
Happy for you for the launch, mad at my self for not finishing my side projects!
Cheers
Def will download and check it out. Thanks for sharing.
Good luck!
For myself, I have done the whole shebang, Jamaican Blue Mountain, Tanzanian Peaberry, Mocha Yemen Mattari, Kona, etc.
Never did Catshit Coffee or Jura coffee machines, but I’ve invested in a lot.
But the last ten years or so, I have been buying 4 bags at a time (once a week), of Dunkin’ whole bean, and I’ve been using standard Braun Melitta-style coffeemakers.
I know, I know. I’m doomed to Coffee Hell for my blasphemy, but it really is the best coffee I’ve had. Home-roasted is better, but too high-maintenance for me.
Amazing. Just downloaded! Excited to give it a spin!
Haven't tried it myself yet, but this looks really good!
Nice app! Quick note of first thing I noticed: Would be nice to have a more detailed option for roast. In my case I have a DiFluid Omni and use it for roast analysis, so would like to be able to enter the data from it.
I've been wanting to build this forever now... I LOVE IT!
Would love to connect & share more ideas that I don't have time to build myself + feedback
Do you have an Android version coming?
If I were drinking coffee at the time, this line would have made me spit it out in a fit of unbelievable laughter:
"- In our opinion, no coffee tool really captures the flavor, emotion, and aesthetic of great coffee—from a design perspective."
What does it mean to capture emotion in a coffee tool from a design perspective? You can't make this stuff up! Actually, I guess you can.
But anyway, I'm sure this comment section will be full of exclamation points (!) about how exciting this is and good luck and can't wait and this is amazing and wow thank you's and so on. Carry on.