Acaia Coffee

Barely usable, let alone valuable in its current form.

Love the idea of using the app with my Acaia scale but the execution of the app is poor. I use it exclusively for espresso and yet cannot change the method from V60. Navigating around the app - even to find method - is difficult. On the positive side it is the only way to see the battery state for the scale. Why there is no battery level indicator on the scale itself beggars belief. Nothing more frustrating than having the scale tell you it’s out of batteries when starting out to express. Come on acaia; give us an app which is as good as your excellent scale.

Black borders around the app. Please update the app to scale to the full screen of the iPhone X/11 Pro.

It’s trash not worth your time, very outdated, the interface of the app looks like it was made for iPhone 3G

This app is so clunky it’s incredible that it came from the same company making beautiful scales. It seems the company is not interested in putting out a better app. It would be great to just open source the app and let’s fix it.

I had no idea the app was this bad prior to the purchase of the scale. No excuse for app this bad when a scale costs $250. Will likely return the scale based off of how crappy this app is.

Can’t believe how terribly thought out this app is. And glitchy. Do better Acaia.

Refining your brew is much easier with this app: tracking the type of brew (espresso, pour-over, etc), the bean, weights, grind setting, ratio and so on is great. Rating your brew and making notes is also great. Having said that it’s a clumsy app with a design that looks about 3 iOS versions behind. Some features are very hard to find and very unintuitive, such as setting a new timing profile for a brewing method. I’ve also yet to discover a way to name the custom methods. In a word, the app is klunky. I’m hoping these folks take the Apple Human Interface Guidelines to heart and maybe book a UX help session at the Apple Developer Conference. They could turn this so-so app into an indispensable accessory for the scale. There’s also the Brewmaster app which is has a much better UI… but is missing key features found only in this app.

The Pearl is an amazing scale. Thought I’d check to see if the app provides any value add. Short answer, it doesn’t. The app is shockingly bad and I won’t be using it. Actually makes my life simpler as I’m tired of the “app for that” problem for all my smart devices. Having one less app makes my life simpler.

You wouldn’t expect a premium device like this to come with such a low quality app. I only use it because I have to, but it takes the joy out of the experience.