BeanBook: AI Coffee Tracker

Bean Book saves a coffee by reading the bag rather than making you type. You scan the label, or paste a roaster's product page, and the app fills in roaster, origin, region, roast date, process, price, bag size and tasting notes. You review the fields before saving, and the OCR and built-in parsing work even without Apple Intelligence turned on.

The dial-in assistant turns your shot history into a next step. You feed in dose, yield, time, grind, temperature and taste, and the app returns an extraction assessment, a confidence level, a suggested adjustment and an explanation for each. You apply the adjustment to the next shot and watch the progress for that bean build across the log.

You can attach a puck photo to an espresso entry. On hardware that supports Apple's image models, the app looks at the picture and adds context about possible channeling and puck prep, with an explanation next to the shot analysis. When image AI isn't available, the photo still saves and the standard analysis still runs.

Scored tastings feed a Taste Profile that shows your preference drivers, flavor signals and trends. Optional AI insights read that history and suggest directions you might like, and the app generates coffee recommendations with reasons drawn from the origins, processes and flavors you rate well.

Beyond the numbers, Bean Book gives you a flavor wheel to place what you tasted and origin maps to see where your coffee comes from. Roaster statistics, freshness tracking and spending totals sit alongside, turning each bag into part of a brew journal rather than a lone row in a table. Your coffee tasting log grows into a picture of how you drink.

You can reach the journal without opening it. Widgets, Control Center, Siri, Shortcuts and Spotlight all hook in, and supported actions let you log a shot, pull up your active bean or last shot, and start dialing in from wherever you are.