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Is There an Untappd for Coffee?

The check-in app beer drinkers have had for years, now pointed at the coffee counter, for the cup you would happily order again.

By Hailei who built Drinqly and logs every glass she drinks

· 5 min read
A striped Turkish coffee cup and a glass of water on a rustic wooden cafe table by the sea

At this point I have no shame in admitting that drinking iced coffee is my entire personality. I'm the type of person who will order a venti iced Americano whether it's 99 or negative 9 degrees. I'm also not the kind of person who orders coffee just for the energy boost and to get my morning started. I believe a well-made espresso can make or break your entire day. I can't tell you the number of times a poorly made iced Americano completely ruined mine (I'm looking at you, Dunkin' Donuts in the ONT airport, yes, I even remember airport coffee). Now an Americano that's truly the BEST DRINK EVER? Yeah, the one where that's literally what it's called. The Best Drink Ever at Better Buzz Coffee in San Diego rightfully earns that name, the kind I drove two hours for once a month because my life would've felt incomplete without it. Back then there were no drink journal apps to track any of it, so these fond memories just live as scattered photos in the rest of my camera roll, only surfacing when I scroll through memory lane.

Quick answer

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.

Drinqly is a free download for iPhone.

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The apps coffee already had

Coffee apps mostly turn out to be brewing tools. They log grind size, dose, water ratio, and extraction time so a home barista can pull the same shot tomorrow. Real craft. But a brewing app treats every cup like homework, and most mornings I just want the cortado. Honestly, half the joy of a good cafe is that someone else already dialed it in perfectly, so I never have to. What I need afterward is somewhere to record that it was wonderful, and where I had it. Run the cafe instead of just visiting one? There's a walkthrough built for coffee shops and tea houses specifically, and it's free to claim.

The best coffee I ever had, and I can't tell you who roasted it.

Built for the coffee counter

Coffee is a first-class drink here

Most check-in apps live at night. The morning gets ignored. 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?

So which do you actually want? If you're chasing a repeatable recipe at your own kitchen scale, a brewing app is the tool. If you mostly drink coffee other people made and want to keep track of the good ones, you want the check-in side, the Untappd-shaped one.

Brewing apps

Make it

  • Grind, ratio, extraction
  • Repeatable home recipes
  • Gear and technique
  • Built for the workshop

Drinqly

Remember it

  • Check in, rate, photograph
  • Cups you had at cafes
  • Friends feed & discovery
  • Tea, matcha & more too

Both can live on your phone. I keep a brewing app for weekend pour-over experiments and I keep Drinqly for everywhere I actually order coffee, which is most days.

Try it

Pick your usual. Watch it check in.

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Cortado
at your neighborhood cafe · oat, no sugar
★★★★★

Three taps and the cup is saved, roast and milk and all. That's the part the brewing apps never bothered with.

And it's not only coffee

You drink more than one thing, and that's the real reason to keep your coffee log in the same place as everything else. The morning cortado, the afternoon matcha, the herbal tea at night, the glass of wine on the weekend if that's 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.

Common questions

Is there an Untappd for coffee?
Yes, Drinqly. Its sober mode works like Untappd for coffee: you check a cup in, rate it in half-stars, and note the roast, milk, and sweetness. It runs on iPhone and is a free download.
What is the best app to log the coffee you drink?
A check-in journal beats a brew-recipe app for this. Drinqly saves what you had, the cafe you had it in, your rating, and a photo, so you can walk back into that place and order the exact cup a year later.
How is Drinqly different from coffee brewing apps?
Brewing apps track grind, ratio, and extraction so you can repeat a recipe on your own gear. Drinqly does not touch any of that. It records the cup you drank, adds a rating and a photo, and drops it in a searchable history next to your tea and matcha.
Can I log tea and matcha too?
Yes. Sober mode gives tea, matcha, boba, smoothies, kombucha, and mocktails their own check-in fields, so a matcha asks about ceremonial grade and a boba asks about sweetness and toppings. Every one lands in the same timeline.
Is there a social app for coffee lovers?
Drinqly has a friends feed and a public worldwide feed. You can follow specific people, like their check-ins, and browse what is being poured at cafes near you to find your next spot.
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