Coffee Book

The one with the compass

To help you diagnose your brews, there's a new espresso compass available. Just hit compass from the brew page, or view it during the dial in flow.

The new stuff:
- We've added a new Latte Art widget to get some inspiration for your morning brews. Just tap and hold on your iPhone home screen, and select the random latte art widget.
- The espresso compass is now available inside the dial-in flow, and straight from the brew page.

The bug fixes:
- I've made a couple tidy ups here and there, please reach out if you find any bugs!
- Fixed an issue where the varietal & origin pickers would sometimes behave a little funky.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one with the redesign

Coffee Book has been re-designed from the ground up to be more personal, fun, and simply better

The new stuff:
- The tabs have changed into brew, coffee and data.
- The brew tab is everything you already love, with a full suite of customisation options.
- The coffee tab is your new go-to for coffee. You can search, copy, delete, and brew, all from the new screen.
- The data tab has been re-architcted to search faster than ever before.
- There's also new icons for iOS & iPadOS - shoutout to Matthew Skiles for the one you see above!
- Dialling in is easier than ever, just hit dial in on the home page and walk right through.
- Bonjour! Coffee Book is now in French.
- Hola! Coffee Book is now available in Spanish.
- We've added an origami dripper option.
- There's a new coffee widget to get you straight into your favourite coffee.
- The live activity is prettier, and lets you progrress steps without even opening the app.
- If your device supports StandBy, you can brew coffee in that mode

The bug fixes:
- I squashed so many bugs, I had to get new shoes. If you find any new ones, please reach out via the support email found inside the app.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one with the redesign

Coffee Book has been re-designed from the ground up to be more personal, fun, and simply better

The new stuff:
- The tabs have changed into brew, coffee and data.
- The brew tab is everything you already love, with a full suite of customisation options.
- The coffee tab is your new go-to for coffee. You can search, copy, delete, and brew, all from the new screen.
- The data tab has been re-architcted to search faster than ever before.
- There's also new icons for iOS & iPadOS - shoutout to Matthew Skiles for the one you see above!
- Dialling in is easier than ever, just hit dial in on the home page and walk right through.
- Bonjour! Coffee Book is now in French.
- Hola! Coffee Book is now available in Spanish.
- We've added an origami dripper option.
- There's a new coffee widget to get you straight into your favourite coffee.
- The live activity is prettier, and lets you progrress steps without even opening the app.
- If your device supports StandBy, you can brew coffee in that mode

The bug fixes:
- I squashed so many bugs, I had to get new shoes. If you find any new ones, please reach out via the support email found inside the app.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

Coffee Book has been re-designed from the ground up to be more personal, fun, and simply better

The new stuff:
- The tabs have changed into brew, coffee and data.
- The brew tab is everything you already love, with a full suite of customisation options.
- The coffee tab is your new go-to for coffee. You can search, copy, delete, and brew, all from the new screen.
- The data tab has been re-architcted to search faster than ever before.
- There's also new icons for iOS & iPadOS - shoutout to Matthew Skiles for the one you see above!
- Dialling in is easier than ever, just hit dial in on the home page and walk right through.
- Bonjour! Coffee Book is now in French, alongside German.
- We've added an origami dripper option.
- There's a new coffee widget to get you straight into your favourite coffee.
- The live activity is prettier, and lets you progrress steps without even opening the app.
- If your device supports StandBy, you can brew coffee in that mode

The bug fixes:
- I squashed so many bugs, I had to get new shoes. If you find any new ones, please reach out via the support email found inside the app.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.
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The one with the redesign

Coffee Book has been re-designed from the ground up to be more personal, fun, and simply better

The new stuff:
- The tabs have changed into brew, coffee and data.
- The brew tab is everything you already love, with a full suite of customisation options.
- The coffee tab is your new go-to for coffee. You can search, copy, delete, and brew, all from the new screen.
- The data tab has been re-architcted to search faster than ever before.
- There's also new icons for iOS & iPadOS - shoutout to Matthew Skiles for the one you see above!
- Dialling in is easier than ever, just hit dial in on the home page and walk right through.
- Bonjour! Coffee Book is now in French, alongside German.
- We've added an origami dripper option.
- There's a new coffee widget to get you straight into your favourite coffee.
- The live activity is prettier, and lets you progrress steps without even opening the app.
- If your device supports StandBy, you can brew coffee in that mode

The bug fixes:
- I squashed so many bugs, I had to get new shoes. If you find any new ones, please reach out via the support email found inside the app.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.
The one with the redesign

Coffee Book has been re-designed from the ground up to be more personal, fun, and simply better

The new stuff:
- The tabs have changed into brew, coffee and data.
- The brew tab is everything you already love, with a full suite of customisation options.
- The coffee tab is your new go-to for coffee. You can search, copy, delete, and brew, all from the new screen.
- The data tab has been re-architcted to search faster than ever before.
- There's also new icons for iOS & iPadOS - shoutout to Matthew Skiles for the one you see above!
- Dialling in is easier than ever, just hit dial in on the home page and walk right through.
- Bonjour! Coffee Book is now in French, alongside German.
- We've added an origami dripper option.
- There's a new coffee widget to get you straight into your favourite coffee.
- The live activity is prettier, and lets you progrress steps without even opening the app.
- If your device supports StandBy, you can brew coffee in that mode

The bug fixes:
- I squashed so many bugs, I had to get new shoes. If you find any new ones, please reach out via the support email found inside the app.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one with the redesign

Coffee Book has been re-designed from the ground up to be more personal, fun, and simply better

The new stuff:
- The tabs have changed into brew, coffee and data.
- The brew tab is everything you already love, with a full suite of customisation options.
- The coffee tab is your new go-to for coffee. You can search, copy, delete, and brew, all from the new screen.
- The data tab has been re-architcted to search faster than ever before.
- There's also new icons for iOS & iPadOS - shoutout to Matthew Skiles for the one you see above!
- Dialling in is easier than ever, just hit dial in on the home page and walk right through.
- Bonjour! Coffee Book is now in French, alongside German.
- We've added an origami dripper option.
- There's a new coffee widget to get you straight into your favourite coffee.
- The live activity is prettier, and lets you progrress steps without even opening the app.
- If your device supports StandBy, you can brew coffee in that mode

The bug fixes:
- I squashed so many bugs, I had to get new shoes. If you find any new ones, please reach out via the support email found inside the app.

the one with the better puck prep

The new stuff:
- You can now select all the puck prep you'd like
- The animations on the timer are better ( a lot better )
- There's a new AeroPress guide

The stuff we fixed:
- Sharing to your instagram story should work again

the one with the better puck prep

The new stuff:
- You can now select all the puck prep you'd like
- The animations on the timer are better ( a lot better )
- There's a new AeroPress guide

The one with the wave

You can now add brews with the Kalita Wave, and input with minutes&seconds.

The new stuff:
- The Kalita Wave is now supported.
- You can now enter times in minutes and seconds. Use the toggle in settings to enable this feature.
- Lil' timer is now easier to read with a little border around it.
- If you press and hold on it, you can clone a coffee.
- When adding a coffee you can optionally add a blend, just select blend as the origin type.

The bug fixes:
- Decaf brews will no longer track any Caffeine ( thanks Calix! )
- Fixed a crash on launch on some versions of iOS.
- Blends will now always save ( thanks David! )
- You won't have issues with duplicate review requests anymore.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one with the wave

You can now add brews with the Kalita Wave, and input with minutes&seconds.

The new stuff:
- The Kalita Wave is now supported.
- You can now enter times in minutes and seconds. Use the toggle in settings to enable this feature.
- Lil' timer is now easier to read with a little border around it.
- If you press and hold on it, you can clone a coffee.
- When adding a coffee you can optionally add a blend, just select blend as the origin type.

The bug fixes:
- Decaf brews will no longer track any Caffeine ( thanks Calix! )
- Fixed a crash on launch on some versions of iOS.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one with the island & some bits on the side

For those of you with fancy new iPhones, you'll be able to see Coffee Book show up in the dynamic island. For everyone else, there's gorgeous live activities to keep the brew going even if you lock the screen.

The new stuff:
- If you have a timer running and background the app, it'll show up in the island.
- Whilst enjoying a brew guide, you can skip steps in the live activity or dynamic island
- There's some gentle sounds that play whilst brewing
- The SharePlay experience has been improved, with faster updates.
- A whole bunch of new tasting notes have been added ( again ) and you can add these to your brews and coffee's now.
- When adding a coffee, you can now say its decaf
- If a section of tasting notes has a bunch of values, it'll now look a lot better.
- The speed of the scanner has been improved, and it will now find weights in grammes.
- The grinder page now has a summary, the same as brewers.
- We've added a moka pot guide.
- Added a simple search to the data page.
- Removed some settings items.

The bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue with farenheight/oz units not saving correctly
- When coming back from the background, the timer will now be the correct time ( with a posisble second or two difference depending on device ).
- If you're using scales, they'll now only update the correct field.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one with the island

For those of you with fancy new iPhones, you'll be able to see Coffee Book show up in the dynamic island. For everyone else, there's gorgeous live activities to keep the brew going even if you lock the screen.

The new stuff:
- If you have a timer running and background the app, it'll show up in the island.
- Whilst enjoying a brew guide, you can skip steps in the live activity or dynamic island
- There's some gentle sounds that play whilst brewing
- The SharePlay experience has been improved, with faster updates.
- A whole bunch of new tasting notes have been added ( again ) and you can add these to your brews and coffee's now.
- When adding a coffee, you can now say its decaf
- If a section of tasting notes has a bunch of values, it'll now look a lot better.
- The speed of the scanner has been improved, and it will now find weights in grammes.

The bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue with farenheight/oz units not saving correctly

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one with iOS 16 and a bit on top.

There's lots of small changes to make the most of the new OS, with a couple of extra tweaks added too.

The new stuff:
- You can add a background to your brew widgets on the lock screen., just hold to configure and enable the background.
- The learn tab is now the guides tab, in preparation for a future change
- Your coffee will now show its image in the data tab and selection screens so you can more easily see which coffee it is.
- Carbonic maceration and anaerobic processing have been added.
- The plus screen has been updated to match the new art style.
- There's a new app icon somewhere in the app.
- When logging a brew, you can start a timer for your brew time.
- The shadows have been toned down a smidge so the app looks prettier.
- If you share a brew with a friend, they'll see it in a nice Shared with you shelf.
- You can now SharePlay via messages, not just calls.
- When adding a brew, you can tap a siri button to add a shortcut.
- Inside shortcuts you can now retrieve all the data for your Coffee's to use in your shortcuts.
- There's new shortuts for brew guides.
- Lock screen widgets are now avaiable for caffeine and brew shortcuts.

The bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue where the timer sometimes wouldn't increment.
- The aeropress brew guide will now display in the correct order.
- If your current locale uses commas and not points, for decimal points, you'll now be able to enter text using commas.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one with iOS 16.

There's lots of small changes to make the most of the new OS.

The new stuff:
- If you share a brew with a friend, they'll see it in a nice Shared with you shelf.
- You can now SharePlay via messages, not just calls.
- When adding a brew, you can tap a siri button to add a shortcut.
- Inside shortcuts you can now retrieve all the data for your Coffee's to use in your shortcuts.
- There's new shortuts for brew guides.
- Lock screen widgets are now avaiable for caffeine and brew shortcuts.

The bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue where the timer sometimes wouldn't increment.
- When you make a new brew, it won't copy data from an old one if you're copying from another.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one with iOS 16.

There's lots of small changes to make the most of the new OS.

The new stuff:
- If you share a brew with a friend, they'll see it in a nice Shared with you shelf.
- You can now SharePlay via messages, not just calls.
- When adding a brew, you can tap a siri button to add a shortcut.
- Inside shortcuts you can now retrieve all the data for your Coffee's to use in your shortcuts.
- There's new shortuts for brew guides.
- Lock screen widgets are now avaiable for caffeine and brew shortcuts.

The bug fixes:
- Fixed an issue where the timer sometimes wouldn't increment.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one with better localisations.

Coffee Book has been updated with all new localisations thanks to Gianluca.

The new stuff:
- You can now change the apps language in the settings page. Currently English and German are supported.
- We've updated some of our links out to our wonderful friends at Cupboard.

The bug fixes:
- Some of you found the scanning button by accident - we've hidden it again now until we finish building it.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one with your recipes.

Coffee Book's March update has brought recipes to the app. You can now make a recipe, share it, and then make brews from it.

The new stuff:
- The new homepage has now been really dialled in, making everything load a little faster.
- The app is now mostly localised into German, with content localisation coming soon, alongside more european languages.
- There's some subtle improvements to the design of all the buttons ( they're a bit squishier ).
- You can now create a recipe in the data tab, which will allow you to save your favourite brew profiles.
- When you've made your first recipe, you can create a new brew copying all the parameters.
- There are a few more fields for brews.
- When adding a coffee, it now has a “state”, so you can say if it’s one you’re using now, or one you’ve finished. If you use all the coffee you entered as the amount, it’ll automagically switch it to finished.

The bug fixes:
- Fixed a possible crash when sharing a brew on iPad Pro.
- Sped up image loading across the app.
- The onboarding notifications are currently disabled due to them being shown incorrectly.
- When you're entering text, it will no longer default to a zero, making it easier to enter values.
- The close buttons now work as expected on the popovers.
- When the homepage loads, the graph no longer looks really weird - thanks @bobek_balinek !
- Updated the longer text fields so they no longer lose their content when you scroll off.
- The brews in the all brews page are now consistently sorted.
- The graph widget will now no longer be problematic.
- In dark mode, the brew cards will now display correctly.
- When you copy a brew, you'll no longer copy the image, saving loads of space.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one that tastes chocolatey, with a hint of blueberry.

The first update of 2022 for Coffee Book brings tasting notes, a brew timer, and the first Chemex brew guide. I’d love to hear your feedback and feature suggestions, so please head to the email provided in the app to get in touch.

The new stuff:
- You can now add tasting notes to your coffees.
- You can now add tasting notes to each brew.
- The recipes in the learn tab now have a coffee timer to help you through your brew. This timer is likely to evolve over time, so please keep suggestions coming.
- Brews can now have their times edited.
- You can now add a photo of your brewer or grinder.
- The brew tab will now only show your most recent 5 at the top, to make the screen more usable.
- Certain elements of the app have been made a little bigger throughout, so it’s easier to read.
- When you select a coffee you’ll now see a small set of stats, including your average ratings, total brews, and most used brew type.
- There’s some nice (optional) onboarding notifications to help you through your first week.
- The coffee page now shows favourites, and has better filter and sorting options.
- A Chemex brew guide has been added.
- When you select a brewer in the data tab, you’ll now get a summary screen with your best brews and some stats.
- It’s easier to find brew guides, as they’re now part of the home page and the brew page.
- The app will now track the brew guide you used alongside each brew, so later you can track your favourites.

The bug fixes:
- The icons on the brew tab will no longer dissapear if you have a bunch of the same one.
- Accessibility text has been fixed on the brew view.
- Coffee's are now always sorted the same way.
- You can now add a brewer directly from the brewer page again, instead of having to do it during your brew flow.
- The ratio will now show again as soon as fields are completed.
- The date will now be correctly set for a new brew.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one that tastes chocolatey, with a hint of blueberry.

The first update of 2022 for Coffee Book brings tasting notes, a brew timer, and the first Chemex brew guide. I’d love to hear your feedback and feature suggestions, so please head to the email provided in the app to get in touch.

The new stuff:
- You can now add tasting notes to your coffees.
- You can now add tasting notes to each brew.
- The recipes in the learn tab now have a coffee timer to help you through your brew. This timer is likely to evolve over time, so please keep suggestions coming.
- Brews can now have their times edited.
- When adding a coffee, it now has a “state”, so you can say if it’s one you’re using now, or one you’ve finished. If you use all the coffee you entered as the amount, it’ll automagically switch it to finished.
- The brew tab will now only show your most recent 5 at the top, to make the screen more usable.
- Certain elements of the app have been made a little bigger throughout, so it’s easier to read.
- When you select a coffee you’ll now see a small set of stats, including your average ratings, total brews, and most used brew type.
- There’s some nice (optional) onboarding notifications to help you through your first week.
- The coffee page now shows favourites, and has better filter and sorting options.
- A Chemex brew guide has been added.
- When you select a brewer in the data tab, you’ll now get a summary screen with your best brews and some stats.
- It’s easier to find brew guides, as they’re now part of the home page and the brew page.
- The app will now track the brew guide you used alongside each brew, so later you can track your favourites.

The bug fixes:
- The icons on the brew tab will no longer dissapear if you have a bunch of the same one.
- Accessibility text has been fixed on the brew view.
- Coffee's are now always sorted the same way.
- You can now add a brewer directly from the brewer page again, instead of having to do it during your brew flow.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.

The one with quick brews

The new stuff:
- Our first guest brew guide is here.
- Your recent brew types are now on home.
- You can now add an "other" brew.
- The tab bar is a bit prettier.
- There's a lovely new popover view to manage scales.

The bug fixes:
- Fixes an issue with the process field
- Fixes a bug with how the homepage updated.

Thank you for continuing to support Coffee Book.