Timer.Coffee
Coffee Recipes & Brew Diary
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad
Background brewing, Live Activities are here. Track your brew on the Lock Screen, log manually, and set a custom grind size per recipe.
Timer.Coffee is a free, open-source coffee brewing timer and calculator designed to enhance your brewing experience. The app is completely free. Optional in-app donations support ongoing development and never affect access to features.
Key Features
- 27 Brewing Methods: Step-by-step instructions for Hario V60, AeroPress, Chemex, French Press, Clever Dripper, Kalita Wave, Wilfa Svart Pour Over, Origami Dripper, Hario Switch, and more.
- Coffee Calculator: Adjust coffee and water quantities on the fly.
- Custom Grind Size: Save your grind settings per recipe — never forget your Comandante clicks again.
- Background Brewing: The timer keeps running accurately when you minimize the app — switch apps or check a message without losing your place.
- Live Activities: Follow your brew step-by-step on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island without unlocking your phone.
- Pulse: See what coffee lovers around the world are brewing right now, in real time.
- Create & Share Recipes: Build your own brewing recipes and share them with the community.
- Brew Diary: Log notes, track sessions, and manually add entries for brews made without the app.
- Bean Tracking: Manage your coffee bean inventory with AI-powered label recognition.
- Favorites: Quick access to your most-used recipes.
- Audio Chime: Audio alerts for every brewing step.
- Automatic Logging: Every session is recorded automatically.
- Device Sync: Recipes, beans, and brews synced across all your devices.
- 22 Languages: Fully localized for a global audience.
- Dark Mode: Easy on the eyes at any hour.
more Improved:
• This update brings a lot of improvements aimed at making user-created recipes more stable. Thanks to everyone who reports bugs and shares ideas!
3.7.3 4 hr ago
New:
• Collapsible Home screen header — scrolling now gives you more space for what matters.
Improved:
• Major networking update: more reliable syncing and improved offline experience.
Fixed:
• Minor bug fixes and visual refinements throughout the app.
3.7.2 7 Jun
This update adds new ways to discover, brew, and manage your coffee recipes.
New:
• Collections: browse curated recipe collections, like iced coffee recipes for hot days.
• Manual brew controls: move backward or forward during brewing when you need more control.
• Per-bag grind size: save a grind setting for each bag of beans.
• Two new brewing methods: Timemore B75 and Espro Bloom Brewer.
• Automatic translation for bean reviews.
Improved:
• More reliable unit conversion during recipe creation, with optional AI verification.
• Various UI and UX improvements throughout the app.
Fixed:
• Several small bugs.
3.7.1 30 May
New:
• Roaster pages! Every roaster now has a page with information, links and reviews.
• Review coffee beans you brewed with. Rate, add taste notes and commentaries. Reviews appear on roaster profile pages.
• See all brews made with specific bag of beans.
• Mark entries added to Brew Diary.
Improved:
• Recipe import flow is more natural.
• Onboarding is skipped when importing recipe.
• Coffee beans detail screen is more informative.
• Different UI imporvements.
Bugfix:
• Fixed a bug with weekly summary notifications.
3.7.0 4 May
New:
• Set up notifications to remind you about morning coffee brew, bean freshness peak and weekly brewing recaps.
• Select preffered date and time format in settings.
• Quickly add notes to coffee bean records from details page.
• Coffee bean details page now shows days since roast date (if added).
Improved:
• Localization improvements across many languages.
Bugfix:
• Fixed a few instances of non-localized/hard-coded strings.
• Small UI and UX fixes.
3.6.5 1 Apr
New:
• By popular request: attach photos to coffee beans entries. Useful when you want to quickly distinguish between lots of packages.
• Onboarding for new users to get familiar with different app features.
• Introduced privacy-friendly analytics to make the app better. You can always opt-out in settings.
• Pulse screen now shows the countries of brews. Also privacy-friendly!
Improved:
• Updated Privacy Policy to better reflect current state.
• Finish screen is now scrollable in order to work better on small screens.
Bugfix:
• Fixed a few bugs in the onboarding flow, thanks for the feedback!
3.6.4 26 Mar
New:
• By popular request: attach photos to coffee beans entries. Useful when you want to quickly distinguish between lots of packages.
• Onboarding for new users to get familiar with different app features.
• Introduced privacy-friendly analytics to make the app better. You can always opt-out in settings.
• Pulse screen now shows the countries of brews. Also privacy-friendly!
Improved:
• Updated Privacy Policy to better reflect current state.
• Finish screen is now scrollable in order to work better on small screens.
3.6.3 24 Mar
New:
• Timer.Coffee now speaks Greek. Καλώς ήρθατε!
• New sorting options for your coffee beans: you can now sort by roast date + choose between ascending/descending order.
3.6.2 17 Mar
New:
• You can now manually add brew diary entries on Brew Diary screen. Useful if you forgot to run the app while brewing or if you just want to record your bres manually.
• Set custom grind size for any recipe on Recipe Detail screen. E.g. "Comandate C40 25 clicks" or "Wilfa Uniform 25". Grind size is saved between sessions.
Improved:
• Small UI improvements on Pulse screen .
Bug Fixes:
• Fix platform-related issues with launch popups.
3.6.1 13 Mar
New:
• Background brewing — Minimize the app mid-brew and come back whenever you're ready. The timer keeps running accurately in the background.
• Live Activities — Track your brew progress on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island (supported devices only).
• Pulse — A new real-time screen showing what other users around the world are brewing right now.
• Contact Support — Reach the developer directly via email from the new Support button on the About screen.
Improved:
• Translation refinements across multiple languages.
• Various design polish for a smoother experience.
Bug Fixes:
• Fixed an issue where built-in recipes would disappear after sharing when the app was set to a non-English language.
• Fixed an issue where the share button for user-created recipes became unresponsive after dismissing the sign-in dialog.
3.6.0 5 Mar
New:
• Sometimes coffee bean bag is already finished, but there are a few grams still "remaining" in app inventiory. Bean Details screen now has "Set to zero" button which allows to quickly deal with this.
Improved:
• Improved translation to Japanese, thanks @llibra!
• Added confirmation before sign out.
• Under the hood improvements which will make app more stable (hopefully!).
Bugfix:
• re-added missing error messages for Google Sign-in.
3.5.9 23 Jan
New:
• App now supports Norwegian (Bokmål) language. Thanks to @thisislola for the translation! Velkommen!
Bugfix:
• Fixed an error with top percentage count in New Year recap.
3.5.8 7 Jan
Happy New Year! Update the app to check special New Year recap. Wish you all the best!
Improved:
• Improved Romanian localization thatks to @tacrita0
Bugfix:
• Fixed few small bugs in New Year recap.
3.5.7 2 Jan
Happy New Year! Update the app to check special New Year recap. Wish you all the best!
3.5.5 31/12/2025
Improved:
• Gift Box screens are now more informative and polished.
Bugfix:
• Fixed: external links in notifications weren't always opening correctly.
3.5.4 19/12/2025
New:
• Holiday surprise! Open the app to see what we prepared for you.
Improved:
• Made the coffee bean bags labels recognition faster and (hopefully) more reliable. Give it a try!
3.5.3 12/12/2025
New:
• Added new brewing methods for your custom recipes! Timer.Coffee now supports the April Brewer, Ceado Hoop Brewer, and Oxo Rapid Brewer.
• Notification toggle: you can now enable or disable notifications in Settings.
• It’s now possible to delete imported recipes from the Recipe Management screen.
Improved:
• Completely reengineered the notifications system. Most changes happen behind the scenes, but notifications should now be more stable and less reliant on third-party solutions.
• Slightly adjusted colors in dark mode for a look that better matches the app’s overall design.
Bugfix:
• A previous fix for User Stats sync created an additional issue. Now, everything’s resolved. Important: some previously deleted brew diary entries may have been restored—sorry about that!
• Global totals for coffee brewed are now displayed accurately.
• Fixed an issue where navigating back from the coffee beans editing screen wouldn’t work if no changes had been made.
3.5.0 23/11/2025
New:
• You can now duplicate your recipes from recipe editing screen. Useful if you want to quickly create many variations.
• You can now sort your beans by remaing package weight.
3.4.6 04/11/2025
New:
• Vibration alerts! You can now use vibration instead of the sound chime to signal the next brew step.
• The app now warns you if you try to close the New Beans or Recipe creation screens without saving your changes.
• When you attach or detach bean records from brew diary entries, the remaining weight now updates automatically.
Improved:
• More accurate recognition of coffee bean package labels.
• Refined localizations across multiple languages.
• Continued work toward a more consistent app design.
• Added various security and performance optimizations.
Bugfix:
• Fixed an issue where user stats didn’t always sync correctly.
3.4.5 31/10/2025
New: remaining beans weight is shown when selecting beans on Recipe screen.
Improved: better translation to Croatian. Thanks @navdra!
Improved: added background to logos on Brew Stats screen.
Bugfix: fixed a bug causing excessive network calls when adding new beans.
3.4.1 09/10/2025
New: Croatian language support! Big thanks to Dražen Navratil for translation!
Improved: a lot of design improvements across different screens: Recipe Detail screen, New Beans screen, Finish screen, Info screen. Design now feels much more streamlined and consistent across the app.
3.4.0 06/10/2025
New: Track your bean stock! You can now record the weight of your remaining beans. The amount will automatically decrease after each brew. Thanks to @vgorova for the idea!
Bugfix: Fixed an issue where steps were duplicated after editing user recipes. Thanks to @sbezavvs for reporting!
Bugfix: Ingredient weights and volumes now scale correctly in recipes. Thanks to @sbezavvs for reporting!
3.3.3 29/09/2025
Greatly improved Spanish translation thanks to @sbezavvs!
+ cleaned up some small bugs.
3.3.2 22/09/2025
New:
+ Korean language support. 한국 유저분들, 어서 와요!
+ Interactive recipe summary! Summary now updates instantaneously, showing you exact coffee and water amounts to use.
+ Unpublish recipes: added an ability to unpublish your public recipes making them private again.
+ Bugfix: fixed Remove Beans button on Brew Diary screen.
3.3.1 15/09/2025
New:
+ Korean language support. 한국 유저분들, 어서 와요!
+ Interactive recipe summary! Summary now updates instantaneously, showing you exact coffee and water amounts to use.
+ Unpublish recipes: added an ability to unpublish your public recipes making them private again.
And of course bug fixes and performance improvements.
3.3.0 09/09/2025
Improved:
• This update brings a lot of improvements aimed at making user-created recipes more stable. Thanks to everyone who reports bugs and shares ideas!
more Version 3.7.3 4 hr ago
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