Crema – Espresso Journal
ZHIFAN LIANG Lifestyle iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Crema – Espresso Journal is a free Lifestyle app for iPhone and iPad by ZHIFAN LIANG. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated October 23, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 31 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Oct 23
- 2026 · v1.9
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About Crema – Espresso Journal
Crema is an espresso journal that tells you what to try next. Pull a shot, tap once, and Crema turns your log into a clear next step: grind finer, pull longer, fix your puck prep, or keep it just as it is. A COACH, NOT A SPREADSHEET After every shot, the dial-in coach picks one change for the next one, based on how it tasted, how it ran, your basket, and your best shot so far. Sour and slow? Pull a longer ratio instead of choking the machine. Fast and bitter? That's channeling, so it says to fix the puck, not the grind. A STARTING POINT FOR EVERY NEW BAG Open a new bag and Crema suggests the first dose, ratio, time, and grind from your best shots on similar coffee: the same coffee, the same roaster, or the same roast. The brew timer starts right there. SEE YOUR DIAL-IN PATH Each bag's shots appear as a path toward the sweet spot: "sour → balanced, grind 18 → 16". Insights show when your beans taste best off roast (per roaster), what each shot costs, and how consistent your week was. Every claim says how many shots it's based on. BREW TIMER A big dial with haptic checkpoints, an optional tap every five seconds so you can time by feel, and a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. Enter the yield when you stop and the shot is logged. ON YOUR WRIST Run the brew timer on Apple Watch, with haptic checkpoints that keep going while your wrist is down. Set the yield with the Digital Crown, rate the shot, and it lands in your iPhone log. Watch-face complications show days off roast and maintenance that's due. SIRI, SHORTCUTS, AND WIDGETS "Tell Crema about my shot: 18 in, 40 out, 32 seconds, a bit bitter." "Repeat my last shot in Crema." "How should I dial in with Crema?" Home and Lock Screen widgets show the bean in your hopper, its days off roast, and maintenance that's due. Pull a shot from Control Center. EVERYTHING A BARISTA TRACKS Pre-infusion, basket, puck prep, water, drink type, sour-to-bitter and body scales, grinder zero point, freezer time that doesn't count toward rest, bag price, and finished bags. Backflush, descale, and burr-wear reminders are based on how much coffee actually went through your grinder. Presets for popular grinders and machines fill in the settings for you. SHARE, IMPORT, AND BACK UP Share any recipe with a friend as a link or QR code. Import your shots, beans, and grinders from a backup or a supported export file. Back everything up to one file, photos included, or export CSV for your spreadsheets. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-in. No analytics. No tracking. Your log syncs through your own private iCloud, or stays on this device. We run no servers and can't see your data. The coach runs on your device. FREE, WITH AN OPTIONAL TIP JAR Every feature is free. If Crema helps your mornings, you can leave a tip. It unlocks nothing and keeps Crema independent. iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple silicon Mac. Localized in 11 languages.
What’s new
Version 1.9 · Updated October 23, 2026
Adds iPhone Duo support, with a smarter coach and a lot of polish. iPhone Duo — The two halves line up with the fold, and nothing sits on the crease. — Studio: pick a bag on one side of the fold and see its dial-in path, starting recipe, and next step on the other. — Dial-in log: filter shots by sour, balanced, or bitter, then drag one across the fold to compare it with your latest shot. Use any shot as the bag's base recipe in one tap. — Brew timer: a step-by-step guide sits beside the same circle timer. The maintenance bench and the welcome screens use both halves too. — Brew, Equipment, Insights, Beans, Compare, and Settings split into two columns around the fold. — Navigation moves to a tab bar along the edge of the inner screen, so the layout is the same open or half-folded. Brew and dial-in — Minimize a running shot to a bar above the tabs and keep using the app. Tap the bar to come back to the timer. — Resume: stopped a shot by accident? Resume keeps the clock running from the original start. — The finish haptic tells you whether you stopped within two seconds of your target. — The coach can now name the number: "finer, to about 16", based on how your grinder has actually responded. It also avoids overshooting from sour to bitter and drops advice that has not worked twice. — Shots can be unrated. Logging from the timer, Siri, or the watch no longer invents a score, and averages and insights only use shots you rated. History — Search your shots by bean, roaster, grinder, notes, flavor, or grind. Type a number or a range like 14-18 to find shots by grind setting. Reminders and gear — Backflush and descale reminders now send notifications, and all reminders are managed in one place so none go missing or repeat. — Burr wear is worked out from your shots, so two devices can no longer overwrite each other's total. — Shots remember which grinder and machine you used, even after you rename them. Everywhere — Text now follows your Dynamic Type size across the app, widgets, Live Activity, and the watch. — With a keyboard, press Command-1 to 5 to switch sections. Rows respond to a pointer. — If a save ever fails, Crema tells you instead of failing quietly. — More of Crema is translated into every language it supports. Fixes — CSV import copes with duplicate rows left behind by an iCloud sync. — A one-off slow shot at an unchanged setup is no longer treated as a reason to change your grind. — The "Discard this shot?" prompt now appears next to the Close button.
App privacy
The developer, ZHIFAN LIANG, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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