The best Beany alternative for better coffee.
Beany is a tidy new tracker for four brew methods, if your iPhone runs iOS 26.2. Filtru guides fifteen methods, talks to fourteen scale brands, and doesn't gate your history.
Available for iPhone and iPad. Free to download.
Beany: Coffee Brew Tracker, on the App Store
First, some honesty.
Beany's guided flows and Live Activities are nicely done for an app two months old.
It covers four methods, requires iOS 26.2, keeps your full history behind Beany Pro, has no scale support, no graphs, no community recipes, no bag scanning, and no ratings yet. Filtru runs on far more iPhones and includes far more coffee.
Filtru vs Beany,
feature by feature.
Based on each app’s public App Store listing and documentation, as of July 2026.
| Feature | Beany |
 Filtru
★ Recommended
|
|---|---|---|
| Guided step-by-step brew timers | Yes. Step flows + Live Activities | Yes. Guided timers for 15 methods |
| Brew methods covered | Partial. 4 methods | Yes. 15 methods |
| Community & shared recipes | No. Not advertised | Yes. Community recipes on every brew method |
| Bluetooth scale support | No. Not advertised | Yes. 14 brands with live weight + flow rate |
| Live brew graphs (weight + flow) | No. Not advertised | Yes. Weight + flow-rate brew print per cup |
| Espresso tools | Partial. Taste-based grind suggestions | Yes. Dial-in, shot recording, TDS + extraction |
| Coffee journal | Partial. Full history behind Pro | Yes. Tasting notes with customisable bag styles |
| AI bag scanning | No. Not advertised | Yes. AbolBuna, on-device, 50,000+ bags |
| Works on older iPhones | Partial. Requires iOS 26.2 | Yes. Supports a wider range of iOS versions |
| Languages | Partial. English only | Yes. 14 languages |
| Price | Yes. Free · Pro £1.99/£17.99 | Yes. Free · optional PRO from $3.49/mo |
| Track record | Partial. Launched May 2026 · no rating yet | Yes. 4.8★ from 11,914 ratings · est. 2016 |
“This is a great app for a beginner. It's helped me get my ratios right for different brewing methods.”— App Store review of Filtru
Why people switch from Beany to Filtru.
Your history belongs to you.
Beany keeps your full brew history behind Pro. Filtru's journal is part of brewing, and the optional PRO tier is for going deeper, not for looking back.
More methods, more iPhones.
Four methods on iOS 26.2 versus fifteen methods on a much wider range of devices. Filtru meets your coffee and your hardware where they are.
Scales, graphs, and a scanner.
Fourteen Bluetooth scale brands, a live brew print of every pour, and AbolBuna reading any bag on-device. None of it is on Beany's roadmap as advertised.
What you get when you switch.
Guided brewing for fifteen methods
AeroPress, V60, Chemex, French press, espresso, siphon, and more. Each has a baseline recipe and a guided timer that keeps pace with you. See every brew method →
Works with serious coffee scales
Acaia, Timemore, Felicita, Decent, BooKoo and more. Live weight and flow-rate feedback with automatic pairing. See supported scales →
Accessibility is a feature, not a checkbox
Filtru works properly with VoiceOver, including live spoken readouts of your scale's measurements while you brew, as often or as rarely as you like. And you can switch the whole app to fonts like OpenDyslexic, Lexend, or Atkinson Hyperlegible.
The answer is YES
Switching from Beany? These all have the same answer:
- Can I see my full brew history in Filtru? Yes
- Does Filtru run on older iPhones than iOS 26? Yes
- Can I follow a step-by-step brew timer in Filtru? Yes
- Does Filtru work with VoiceOver? Yes
- Is Filtru free to try? Yes
Filtru is free to download and works with the gear you already own. No subscription needed to start brewing.
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Beany is a trademark of its respective owner; Filtru isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by it. Feature and pricing information comes from public listings and documentation as of July 2026. Spotted something out of date? Tell me and I’ll fix it.