CoffeeBuddy: Brew Journal

CoffeeBuddy is a cozy, paper-style journal for people who take their coffee a little too seriously, in a good way. Log each brew the way you would scribble it in a real notebook: the beans, the grind, the ratio, the water temperature, what it tasted like, and what you want to change next time. Then let the app do what notebooks can't. THE JOURNAL NOTICES THINGS The more you log, the more patterns show up on the Insights page. Real observations, written in plain English, pulled from your own entries: - "You keep favoring natural coffees. 4.8 stars against 3.9 for washed." - "Your best filter brews cluster around 1:16." - "Beans 5 to 9 days off roast rate highest for you." - "For washed coffees, the V60 beats the Switch, 4.2 stars to 3.5." Maybe you already know you're a light roast person. But do you know your best water temperature? Whether your morning cups really beat your evening ones? Which flavor keeps showing up in everything you rate five stars? Your journal knows. BUILT FOR HOW YOU ACTUALLY BREW - Scan the bag: point the camera at a coffee bag and the name, roaster, origin, process, roast date, and tasting notes fill themselves in. You just check them. A bag already on your shelf is recognized on sight. - Eight methods: espresso, pour-over, French press, AeroPress, moka pot, cold brew, drip, and siphon - Sensible starting numbers for each one: dose, ratio, temperature, grind, and timing - A brew timer for every pour and shot that keeps counting with your phone locked - A built-in library of classic coffees that pre-fills origin, variety, and typical flavors - Roast dates, so freshness is something you can measure - Your gear on every brew, with last time's setting suggested. Insights tells you which brewer wins for which coffee. - Rest time for fresh roasts: add a bag to the shelf the day it arrives, set how long it should rest, and get one quiet reminder the morning it's ready. The suggested rest comes from your own best-rated cups. - A shelf that knows which bags are sealed and resting, open, in the freezer, or finished. The freezer pauses a bag's age, so a bag frozen at its peak is still at its peak months later. - A brew water calculator with community recipes and your own, and Insights on which water your palate prefers - Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets: your streak, the next bag coming off its rest, and a one-tap Brew another - The brew timer in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen while a pour or shot runs - On iPhone Duo, the journal opens like a book: the list on one page, the entry on the other A PROPER JOURNAL - Bag photos and brew photos, taped in like prints, leading every row of the journal - Tasting words you can tap, plus any words of your own - Star ratings, freeform notes, and a page for every brew. Edit any entry, and date the ones you logged late. - This week at a glance on the Home page, a calendar to flip back through with ready days marked for resting bags, and search across everything you've written - Brew it again: every bag keeps your best recipe and your last, one tap from a new entry with it all filled in - Compare two brews of the same bag and see exactly what changed - Quick log for the days it was just the usual: pick the bag, tap the stars, done - Export the whole journal to CSV, or back it all up, photos included, as one file. It's your data. QUIET BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Your journal lives on your device and in your own iCloud, so your iPhone and iPad stay in sync and nobody else, including us, can read it. The bag scanner reads labels on the phone itself. Also there is a small bean who lives in the brew timer and slowly roasts as you log more brews. He is doing great. Brew, jot it down, and find out what you actually like.