XBRW++ // xBloom Brew & Cards
Jesper Hessius Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
XBRW++ // xBloom Brew & Cards is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Jesper Hessius. Requires iOS 16.4. Updated October 20, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 43 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Oct 20
- 2026 · v2.1.0
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About XBRW++ // xBloom Brew & Cards
XBRW++ started as a way to rewrite the card that came with your coffee. It does a lot more than that now. Import a recipe. Change anything in it. Write it to a card, or skip the card and brew straight from your phone. Then keep what happened, so the next one is better. BREW FROM YOUR PHONE Connect over Bluetooth and brew with no card at all. The water draws itself on a graph as it lands, next to the flow rate into the cup and the stage you are on. The drawdown gets its own timer once the pouring stops. BREW WHAT A CARD CANNOT HOLD AND THE OFFICIAL APP WILL NOT A card holds a whole number ratio. It has nowhere to put bypass water, and only so much room for stages. Bluetooth has none of those problems. Brew 1:15.5. Add bypass. Write a recipe longer than a card can carry and the official app refuses to. How about that Tetsu Kasuya 10 pour? Why not make it 15? For the first time, you can. EDIT EVERY STAGE Dose, ratio, grind size and grind speed. Then each pour on its own: volume, temperature, pattern, agitation, flow rate, and the pause after it. Change one degree, or everything. WRITE IT TO A CARD Hold a card to your phone and the recipe is on it. Read a card the same way to pull its recipe into your library, including cards that never show up in the official app. BRING RECIPES IN Paste an xBloom share link, or share one into the app from your browser. Type a pod code. Sign in to xBloom and pull your own recipes over. Build one in BrewMind without leaving the app. Browse the community catalogue. Getting the right recipe has never been easier. A LIBRARY THAT KEEPS UP Your library can grow quickly, and that quickly becomes unmanageable, not anymore. Search by name, author, note or pod. Tag anything. Sort by name, date, rating, ratio, how often you brew it, or how long it has been. Shelves (collections of recipes) build themselves out of what you actually have in your catalogue, or just create a collection manually. DIAL IT IN Every brew is recorded, and what gets recorded is what the machine did rather than what you asked for. Rate it out of five. Write a note. Pin the ones worth keeping. Put two next to each other and see exactly what moved - what made the first brew click when the second one fell flat? SHARE THE GOOD ONES Turn a brew into a card for social, graph and figures included, and pick what goes on it. Or make a share link and send the recipe itself. YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS There is no XBRW++ account and there never will be. No analytics, no ads, no tracking. Your recipes, brews and notes sit on your phone. Signing in to xBloom is optional, and it only ever reads. If you want the detail, there is a screen in the app listing every network call it can make and what each one sends. WHAT YOU NEED • An xBloom Studio or an original xBloom. This is a companion to hardware you already own. • Genuine xBloom cards, for the card features. The first 32 bytes of every card are a signature xBloom derives from the card's serial number. XBRW++ preserves that signature but cannot create one, so blank third-party tags will not work. XBRW++ is free and open source. Not made by, affiliated with, or endorsed by xBloom.
What’s new
Version 2.1.0 · Updated October 20, 2026
XBRW++ 2.1.0 brings more control over your brews, easier Easy Mode setup and better tools for exploring your brew history. QUICK EDITS Adjust dose, ratio, grind or temperature for a single brew without changing your saved recipe. Your brew history records the adjustments so you can see what worked. PAUSE AND RESUME Pause a running brew and resume where you left off. Paused time is recorded separately from brewing time. EASY MODE PROFILES Assign recipes from your library to the machine’s A, B and C Easy Mode slots, including tea recipes with up to three steeps. Set Scale ON for each slot to automatically tare the scale when starting that profile. Updated slot cards make assignments easier to review, with clearer progress and recovery options when a write is interrupted. CUSTOM DRIPPER CONTROLS For recipes using the Other brewer type, you can set custom overflow protection by defining a retained-water limit. While the app is open and connected, it can pause brewing when estimated water held in the dripper is too high and resume when it falls below the limit. This is an optional brewing aid, not a replacement for supervising your brew. BREW HISTORY FILTERS AND SORTING Show only rated brews or hide unsuccessful attempts. Sort by date, rating, dose, ratio or grind to find and compare the cups you care about. BETTER TEA TRACKING Follow tea through its fill, steep and release phases. Updated live views, summaries and comparisons distinguish programmed water from measured delivery and keep tea timing separate from coffee drawdown. CLEARER BREW SUMMARIES Improved grind, delay and drawdown figures make results easier to read. Summaries distinguish a confirmed grinder reading from the requested setting, and shared brew cards can include dose and ratio. SMARTER TRACE STORAGE Detailed brew traces are now compressed, with a configurable storage budget. Older traces are cleared first, prioritising recent brews and those with ratings or notes. Brew records and summary figures remain available after a trace is removed. CONNECTION AND USABILITY IMPROVEMENTS Bluetooth being switched off is detected before a long connection attempt. Brew startup tracking better handles grinder positioning, settings are easier to navigate, and recipe validation gives clearer feedback before brewing or writing a card. This update also includes improvements to imported temperatures, large-text layouts, accessibility and shared brew cards. Thank you to everyone who tested 2.1.0 and helped shape this release.
App privacy
The developer, Jesper Hessius, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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