Built for people who care about every cup.

What HomeBarista is

HomeBarista is an iOS app for specialty coffee tracking. It logs every brew with 25+ parameters, manages your coffee inventory with visual rings and AI bag scanning, guides you through espresso dial-in sessions, and surfaces the insights that show you what actually works across hundreds of brews — not just the one you remember.

The product covers 30+ brewing devices (Hario V60, Chemex, AeroPress, espresso, Kalita, Origami, Moka, Cold Brew and many more) and ships with five built-in pro tools: an extraction calculator, espresso dial-in assistant, cost-per-cup calculator, water recipe calculator, and equipment maintenance tracker.

Why it exists

Home espresso and pour over went from a hobby into a craft category in the last decade. Refractometers, single-dose grinders, $2,000 home machines, and bags of competition-lot coffee are now standard equipment. The tracking tools didn't keep up.

Most coffee apps treat brewing as a journal — record a name, jot a few notes. That works until you have ten bags on the shelf, four brewing devices, and a refractometer reading you took yesterday that you can't tie back to the grind setting that produced it. The moment you start dialling in for real, a notes app stops working.

HomeBarista was built around the opposite assumption: serious home coffee is a structured problem with measurable variables. Every brew is a sequence of decisions — dose, grind, ratio, time, temperature, agitation — and every great cup is replicable if you wrote it down. The app's job is to make writing it down so frictionless that you actually do.

What makes HomeBarista different

• Depth without the busy-work. 25+ parameters per brew if you want them. Smart defaults, copy-from-last, and base brews per device so logging takes 10 seconds, not 2 minutes.
• AI bag scanning. Point the camera at a coffee bag and HomeBarista auto-fills name, roaster, origin, process, variety, and tasting notes. The biggest friction point in coffee tracking — typing in bag metadata — disappears.
• Visual inventory. Every bag shows a ring that drains as you brew. Doses deduct automatically. Days off roast updates daily. The shelf you couldn't keep track of becomes a glanceable dashboard.
• Pro tools as first-class features. Most apps tack on a calculator or two. HomeBarista treats the extraction calculator, dial-in assistant, water recipe builder, cost-per-cup math, and maintenance tracker as core product surfaces — each with its own polish.
• Insights that compound. Brew frequency, method breakdowns, score trends, time-of-day patterns, and a world map of every bean you've logged. The long view that taste memory can't hold.

Who built it

HomeBarista is made by Roasters Technologies — the company behind the product. The team works on a focused product surface (coffee tracking on iOS, in six languages) rather than a broad portfolio. Every feature in the app exists because someone on the team uses it daily at their own grinder.

We ship continuously. New brewing devices, new languages, new tools, and fixes go out whenever they're ready — not on a quarterly cycle.

What we believe about coffee

• Measurement beats memory. The shot that worked yesterday is lost unless the recipe is written down. Apps exist to do that part for you.
• Taste is still the judge. Refractometers, scales, and pressure gauges are inputs — not verdicts. A 21% extraction that tastes bad is still bad coffee.
• Tools should disappear into the workflow. If logging a brew takes longer than making it, the tool failed. Defaults and templates earn their keep.
• Most "secret techniques" are well-applied basics. Dialled-in grind, fresh beans, clean water, balanced extraction. That's most of it.
• Specialty coffee is a craft. It rewards practice, repetition, and curiosity. HomeBarista is built to support all three.

Where to find us

• iOS App Store: Home Barista: Brew Like a Pro
• Website: homebarista.app
• Guides & reference: Brewing guides
• Pricing: Free + PRO plans