Beanconqueror - The Ultimate Coffee Companion
You’re a coffee afficiando, and so am I!
Beanconqueror is the product of our shared love of the drink in our cups and in our hearts.
Whether you're just starting out, or are an experienced barista, Beanconqueror will help you get the most out of your coffee.
Optimize your brews:
Beanconqueror offers a wide range of preparation methods, including V60, Aeropress, Espresso, Orea v3, Mokkamaster and more.
Each comes setup ready to go, or you can customize your preparation methods with just the parameters you want to use.
This way, you can get your perfect brew every time.
Keep track of your beans:
Beanconqueror makes it easy to keep track of all your beans.
You can easily scan or import detailed information of roasted coffee from your favourite roasters, or even from your own roasting setup.
It’ll even keep track of your running total of beans so you know when you’re running low.
Track your roasts:
Add all the details for your green beans, roast them in batches tracking the variables you need to to maintain consistency, and automatically transfer your finished roasts to use for brewing.
Dedicated water section:
Beanconqueror also has a dedicated water section where you can add your custom waters to be used in the brew section.
Save all the key information for your water recipes, such as general hardness, sodium, calcium, magnesium, and more.
Flexibility and Convenience:
Beanconqueror is available for both iPhone and iPad.
It also supports several languages, including English, German, Spanish, Chinese, and Turkish, and more will be added in the future.
Beanconqueror is also Open Source and free to use.
Flow & Pressure Profiling:
Beanconqueror is compatible with a range of bluetooth scales and pressure profile devices, including Decent Scale, Acaia Scales, Felicita Scales, Hiroia Jimmy, Eureka Precisa, Skale2, Smart Espresso Profiler, and Pressensor.
It can even produce graphs to track your brew live and help you repeat your favourite brews more easily.
Track your caffeine consume into Apple Health and have a look there.
Whether you're looking to track your coffee journey, optimise your brews, or simply keep track of your coffee beans, Beanconqueror has everything you need to perfect your brew from green to cup.
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
Developer Response
Hey Ccrowr14,thank you for this great feedback! :)If you got any questions, please send me an e-mail: info@beanconqueror.comHave a great cup of coffeeLars
Probably the best brewing app but...
theCoffeeScientist
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.
Developer Response
Update - 15.06.2021:Hello TheCoffeeScientist,thank you for the update and feature requests.Its fantastic we think in the same way.In the next update, there will be the possibility to add your bean weight in, to calculate the loss with the ground weight.To record the pours on each brew is already one thing on the roadmap but won't be delivered in Version 6.0.The time of your blooming phase can already be recorded (bean-steaming icon).I'd be happy if we could discuss further what would also help you to get a consistent brew besides exporting to excel e.g.If you like to, just drop me a email: info@beanconqueror.comThank you for your time and this huge feedback, I really appreciate this!Lars Hi TheCoffeeScientist,thank you for your feedback!The app is based on a core mechanismn where beans, preparation methods (brew methods) aswell as grinders are needed to brew your coffee.If you archive your preparation method by mistake, there is no problem at all to unarchive it at any time given again, without any problems.Is there something more you want to know, that this App deserves a 5-star rating? I'm happy to help you out and answer all questions in detail.Also if you got any more feedback or feature requests, don't hesitate to contact me: info@beanconqueror.comHave a brewtiful day!Lars
App works well as a journal, too buggy with scale
Dsvist12
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.
Developer Response
Hello Dsvist12,thank you for your rezession and feedback.I've written an FAQ to the Acaia Scale situation.https://beanconqueror.gitbook.io/beanconqueror/resources/faq#my-acaia-scale-constantly-connects-and-disconnectshttps://beanconqueror.gitbook.io/beanconqueror/resources/faq#no-weight-valuesThere are two things to mention:1. Maybe it helps to change the heartbeat in the settings.2. Acaia is not giving any help to an Open Source Application.I'd be happy if you could direct contact me: info@beanconqueror.com so we can sort the issue hopefully out.Other apps don't have the connectivity issue, because Acaia provides an SDK which Beanconqueror can use cause of the software stack.Acaia is not willing to support like written above.A vessle (name + weight) can already be added and be preset.Have a look at Brewing Parameters -> Manage Parameters -> Activate "Vessle".Like written above, I'd gladly connect with you directly, after its not possible via a comment her. To help you out.Thanks for taking the time and have a great cup of coffeeLars
I use this app every single day!
dylanriverlopez
Not that long ago I dived head first into the coffee rabbit hole. I then discovered this app and have used it every day and every time that I brew. It has so many parameters you can set and it really lets you meticulously track every aspect of the journey. I also really like how transparent the developers are. The app is open source. They show you their operating costs. They show what data that they track and the reasons why. I am a big fan of that sort of business model. As comprehensive as the app is now, there’s a few things I would love to see implemented: - I believe this is coming in a future update, but I would love to be able to add in pre-ground coffee and then ground coffee so I am able to see grinder retention. - Changing the date/time of a brew would be great. Sometimes I forget to input a brew and come to it later and the date/time is incorrect. - An option to indicate storage of your beans. - Sometimes I freeze my beans at peak freshness and adding some sort of parameter for this would be cool, but not sure how that could be implemented. Anyway, try this app out if you love brewing coffee!
Developer Response
Hello dylanriverlopez,thanks for this lovely feedback! Great to see people enjoying this app and having great ideas to make it even better.In the next update there will be the possibility to activate a new field put in beans weight with this the grind retention can be calculated.Changing the date/time of a brew is already possible, please go into the parameter settings and activate custom brew time, so you can change it on the time whereever you like.An option to indicate storage of your beans.-> Could you please give me some more details about this via e-mail (info@beanconqueror.com)?The thing of freezing and unfreezing is one thing asked by some people, but actually there is not enough time to implement this feature, but its already in the backlog to not get forgotten.If you got any more information or requests, please write me an email: info@beanconqueror.comHave great brews & the best cup possibleLars
Sanremo YOU
Support of the Sanremo YOU Machine combined with the brew by weight feature!
Explore the Baristamode, start the shot from the Sanremo YOU and BeanConqueror will stop it at the right time.
Graph-Colors
You can now customize the graph colors for light and dark mode
Meticulous
If you import a shot, the profile name and the set temperature is set now aswell
Brew
Displaying hour and minute on the detail screen of the brew
Other
Fixing excel import for Chinese characters
Minor fixes
Version 8.6.0
The developer, Lars Saalbach, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Location
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Information
Seller
Lars Saalbach
Size
72.9 MB
Category
Food & Drink
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
