iOS · Coffee Journal

Every bag,
every cup,
remembered.

You tried a Kenyan kiamacora at a café in March and it ruined every bag of coffee since. Snap the bag and Palate fills in the roaster, the origin, and the tasting notes for you — so next time you actually remember what to buy again.

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Palate app journal screen showing four logged coffee entries with roaster names, origins, and star ratings
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Why Palate

Point your camera. Get a journal entry.

Most coffee gets logged nowhere — you drink it, you like it or you don't, and three weeks later the name is gone. Palate closes that gap by doing the typing for you.

01

Snap the bag — Palate fills in the rest

Point your camera at any coffee bag, or pull a photo from your library, and Palate reads the label for you. Name, roaster, origin, process, and tasting notes — detected and dropped straight into the entry while you watch.

Palate scanning a coffee bag with an 'Analysing your coffee' overlay, detecting name, roaster, origin, process and tasting notes
02

A finished entry, label and all

Seconds later the whole record is there — the bag photo kept for good, a flavor-profile breakdown, roaster notes, origin and process, and your own score out of five. Adjust anything the scan didn't nail with a tap.

Palate entry detail for Honduras Anibal Baca showing the bag photo, a 4.0 out of 5 rating, and a flavor profile chart
03

Log every brew, note what worked

Add a brew recipe to any coffee — method, dose, yield, ratio, grind, temperature, and time — with a line of notes for the dial-in that finally tasted right. Stack up as many brews as you pull from the bag.

Palate brew recipe panel showing V60 pourover details — dose, yield, ratio, grind, temperature and time — with a tasting note reading 'very sweet!'
04

Share a card straight to Instagram

Turn any entry into a clean share card — bag photo, tasting notes, tags, and your rating — then post it to Instagram, send it in Messages, or save it to your camera roll in a single tap.

Palate share card for Honduras Anibal Baca with tasting-note tags and a four-star rating, above Save, Instagram, Messages and More share buttons
Inside the app

Your whole journal, one glance.

This is the actual home screen — the four most recent entries, sorted by date, with the running average right at the top.

Palate journal home screen with entries for Kenya Kiamacora, Ethiopia Gute, Ovidia Gomez, and Symbiosis Project
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Origin tag
Tap + to log a new bag
i.

Recent entries, sorted your way

By date, by score, or by origin — whichever helps you find the bag you're thinking of.

ii.

Café or home brew, tagged automatically

Every entry notes where the cup came from, so a café pour and a home V60 never get mixed up in your history.

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One tap to log the next one

The whole point is that logging a bag takes less time than making the coffee did.

Get Palate

Start the journal on your next cup.

Palate is free to download and works without an account — sign in later if you want your journal backed up across devices.

Download on the App Store