Untappd for Coffee: 7 Apps to Log Every Cup

Updated July 21, 2026 · by the Crumble team

There is no single dominant Untappd for coffee, but several apps recreate the loop: Beanconqueror for logging home brews, Kava and Tasting Grounds for social café ratings, and Crumble for mapping coffee shops with friends.

What people actually mean by "Untappd for coffee" is the check-in habit: log the cup, rate it, see what your friends are drinking. Untappd nailed that loop for beer — and coffee splits it three ways. Some drinkers want to dial in home brews (grind size, ratio, water temperature), some want to remember which cafés were worth the detour, and some want a community rating every bag of beans. This guide compares seven apps across those three jobs, so you can pick the one that matches how you drink. If you want the habit-and-workflow side rather than the app roundup, our companion guide on how to track specialty coffee covers that.

The picks at a glance

1. Crumble — best for mapping cafés and sharing them with friends

Crumble takes the part of Untappd that was really about places — checking in, remembering, and comparing notes with friends — and applies it to everywhere you eat and drink, cafés included. Every coffee shop you visit becomes a pin on your map, with a half-star rating (0.5–5) for each drink you ordered, not just the venue.

What it does for coffee people:

• Café tracking is free. Log coffee shops, rate the flat white and the filter separately, keep a wishlist of cafés you still want to try — no paywall on any of it.
• A shared friends map. Your friends' rated cafés show up on your map, so "where should we get coffee around here?" answers itself. Each place shows three signals: your friends' average, the Crumble-wide average, and public Foursquare data for context.
• A proper tasting journal, free. The coffee tasting journal scores each cup on six flavor axes — and matching free journals cover tea, matcha, wine, whisky, and beer, so one app covers the whole tasting-shelf habit. The optional Plus tier (from €1.99) adds an AI scan that fills in roaster, origin, and style from a photo of the bag.
• Private by default. Friends-only visibility, EU-hosted, GDPR-compliant, no ads. Strangers never see your cups or your cafés.
• No install required. It's a Progressive Web App — open it in any browser and add it to your home screen.

Where it's not for you: Crumble doesn't log brew parameters. If your coffee life happens at the grinder — dose, ratio, water temperature, shot time — Beanconqueror below is the better tool, full stop. Crumble wins when the question is "which café, and what should I order there?"

Try Crumble free

2. Beanconqueror — best free brew log for home brewers

Beanconqueror is the app the r/espresso crowd keeps recommending, and for good reason: it's free, open-source, and obsessively detailed. You track bags of beans (scan or import roaster details, watch your remaining grams tick down), log every brew with method-specific parameters — V60, AeroPress, espresso, and more — and connect Bluetooth scales, pressure sensors, and refractometers for live brew graphs. Data stays on your device, works offline, and there's no account to create.

Trade-offs: it's a solo instrument, not a social app — no friend feed, no café map, no community ratings. And the depth that delights gear nerds can overwhelm someone who just wants to remember that Tuesday's Ethiopian pour-over was great.

3. Kava — best for discovering and rating specialty cafés

Kava is the closest thing to a literal Untappd for coffee shops: a curated map of thousands of specialty cafés across dozens of countries, where you rate the coffees you drink, share photos with followers, and earn badges for each country you caffeinate in. Practical filters — laptop-friendly, outdoor seating — make it genuinely useful for travel and remote-work days.

Trade-offs: the map is curated to specialty coffee, so your beloved neighborhood non-specialty café may not be on it, and the social layer is follower-based rather than a closed friend circle. It's coffee-only — lunch needs a different app.

4. Tasting Grounds — best social brew-sharing community

Tasting Grounds sits between Beanconqueror's lab notebook and a social feed: log your brew with details like ratio and brew time, score it with flavor notes like a professional cupping, then share it and see how friends brewed the same beans differently. The discovery angle is strong — see where a coffee was grown, what the roaster tastes in it, and which roasters the community rates.

Trade-offs: it's built around brews and beans, not places — there's no map of cafés you've visited. And like any community app, its value depends on your friends actually joining.

5. Coffunity — best community library of rated coffee bags

Coffunity has been called the "Untappd of coffee" since it won Best of Show at the 2018 Specialty Coffee Expo. The mechanic: photograph a bag of beans, pull up its origin, process, and roast details from the community library, then rate and review it. Over time it builds a taste profile from your ratings, and you can follow friends or local baristas to see what they're drinking.

Trade-offs: it's bean-centric — the unit is the bag, not the brew or the café — and it's one of the older apps in this list, so check how active the community is in your region before committing your archive to it.

6. Brewlio — best minimalist daily brew log (Android)

Brewlio is the opposite of Beanconqueror: a simple Android app for recording each cup you brew with the essentials and nothing more. If a full parameter lab feels like homework and you just want a searchable diary of your daily cups, this is the low-friction option.

Trade-offs: Android-only, no social layer, and minimal by design — no bean inventory, no Bluetooth gear, no café map. It's a notebook, and it's honest about that.

7. Google Maps saved lists — best zero-setup café bookmarks

The default answer, already on your phone: star every good café into a "Coffee" list and share the list link with a friend before a city trip. For pure "which cafés did I like in Lisbon?" recall, it works.

Trade-offs: a star is not a rating. There's no scale of your own, no per-drink notes, no separation of visited from want-to-try, and no friend layer beyond manually sent links. It's where coffee tracking starts, not where it scales.

How to choose

• You brew at home and love dialing in → Beanconqueror. Nothing else logs parameters and gear this deeply for free.
• You hop cafés and want friends to benefit → Crumble. Café pins, drink-level ratings, and a friends-only map — plus food in the same app.
• You travel for specialty coffee → Kava's curated café map and country badges.
• You want a brew community → Tasting Grounds for sharing brews, Coffunity for rating bags.
• You want the least possible app → Brewlio for cups, Google Maps lists for cafés — upgrade when they stop scaling.

The same check-in instinct extends past coffee, too: we've written about pointing it at meals and at matcha, and if you're a beer drinker leaving Untappd itself, there's a dedicated alternative guide that covers importing your check-ins.

How we chose these apps

We build a food-and-drink tracker ourselves, which means two things: we know this category from the inside, and we have an obvious conflict of interest. To keep the list honest, every competitor description is drawn from the app's own published feature set — its website, App Store or Play Store listing — and we verified each app was alive and downloadable in July 2026 before including it. We included an app when it (a) records coffees or cafés you've personally tried, (b) attaches your own rating or notes to each entry, and (c) offers a usable free tier. We excluded brew timers and ratio calculators without a log, and roaster subscription apps, because neither remembers what you drank. Where another app is simply the better choice — Beanconqueror for brew parameters is the clearest case — we say so by name in its section.

Frequently asked questions

Start your coffee map today

Crumble is free, private by default, and runs in the browser you already have. Log your first café in under a minute — and when the tasting-journal itch strikes, the free six-axis coffee journal is one tap away.

Open Crumble