Is There an Untappd for Coffee?
The check-in app that beer got, pointed at the counter instead of the bar, for the cup you would happily order again.
Coffee is the drink people are most loyal to and worst at remembering. You have a cortado somewhere that reorders your whole idea of what coffee can taste like, and three weeks later you cannot name the cafe, let alone the roaster. Beer drinkers solved this years ago with a check-in app. Coffee never got one that stuck, because the apps built for coffee were built for the wrong half of the problem.
Yes. Drinqly is the Untappd for coffee. Its sober mode lets you check in a coffee, rate it, add a photo and notes on roast, milk, and sweetness, and keep a searchable journal, at a cafe or made at home. Where brewing apps help you make coffee, Drinqly helps you remember the cups you drink, alongside tea, matcha, and everything else.
The apps coffee already had
Search for a coffee app and you find brewing tools: apps that log grind size, dose, water ratio, and extraction time so a home barista can repeat a recipe. They are excellent at what they do. But dialing in an espresso is a workshop task, and it answers a question most coffee drinkers are not asking. You are not trying to reverse-engineer the pour-over. You want to remember that it was wonderful, and where to find it again.
You do not want to rebuild the cup. You want to remember it.
Coffee is a first-class drink here
Most check-in apps live at night. Drinqly has a full sober experience where the morning menu is treated with exactly the same care as a cocktail list: coffee, tea, matcha, boba, kombucha, and mocktails are drinks you check in, rate, and keep, with the details that actually matter to them.
- The cupCortado, oat flat white, single-origin pour-over, iced shaken espresso.
- The detailsRoast, milk, sweetness, hot or iced, the roaster if you caught it.
- The memoryA rating, a photo, the cafe, saved to a timeline you can search.
Brewing app, or drinking journal?
The clearest way to choose is to name what each side is for. One helps you make coffee. The other helps you remember it. They are different apps for different people, and the second is the Untappd-shaped one.
Make it
- Grind, ratio, extraction
- Repeatable home recipes
- Gear and technique
- Built for the workshop
Remember it
- Check in, rate, photograph
- Cups you had at cafes
- Friends feed & discovery
- Tea, matcha & more too
If your question is "how did they make that," reach for a brewing app. If it is "what did I love, and where do I get it again," that is this.
And it is not only coffee
The reason to keep your coffee log in Drinqly rather than a coffee-only app is the same reason a beer app was never quite enough: you drink more than one thing. The morning cortado, the afternoon matcha, the herbal tea at night, and yes, the glass of wine on the weekend if that is you; they belong on one timeline. Drinqly is the check-in journal for all of it, which is the fuller story on the Untappd for everything you drink.