BeerSmith 3 Mobile Homebrewing

BeerSmith LLC

About this app

Need to create great homebrewing beer recipes on the go? BeerSmith 3, the world's top selling beer brewing software, now adds mead, wine and cider support. BeerSmith Mobile gives you all the tools to design, edit and brew your best beer from your phone or tablet. BeerSmith home brewing is tightly integrated with our recipe cloud service and desktop BeerSmith program making it easy to create recipes from your desktop computer or phone and share them transparently.

Save a recipe on your desktop cloud folder and open it on your phone. In addition our BeerSmithRecipes search function puts thousands of new recipes at your fingertips. An integrated brew day timer with step by step instructions, brewing calculators and tools for converting units rounds out this great app!

The ultimate app for BeerSmith users - create a recipe at your desktop cloud folder, walk our the door and edit the recipe from your phone or tablet!

Features:
- Support for beer, mead, wine and cider recipes
- Water adjustment and mash pH estimation in the recipe builder
- Updated ingredient databases and add-ons
- Ability to fully edit recipe and brew session data
- Editing of ingredients including hops, grains, misc, water, and yeast
- Full edit of profiles including equipment, mash profiles, aging and carbonation
- Functions to scale a recipe by equipment, alter color, original gravity or bitterness
- Ability to save profiles or ingredients from an existing recipe to your phone database
- Search, view and select from thousands of recipes on BeerSmithRecipes.com
- Brewday timer for steep, mash and boil with notifications and alarms
- Ability to store recipes you find locally or to your cloud account
- Full integration with the desktop version of BeerSmith via your cloud folder
- Any recipe you move to your desktop cloud folder can be used in the app!
- Full beer style guide in app for reference
- Seven calculators including: hydrometer adjust, infusions, alcohol/attenuation, mash adjust, weight/volume, refractometer and carbonation
- Five unit converters: temperature, gravity, weight, volume, pressure

Ratings and reviews

Loses recipes. No import of beer.xml files Lots of tools. Generally a good app, but constantly messes up my recipes lists with duplicates and lost recipes. There are 2 built in tools to try to recover lost recipes so this is a known bug. No way to transfer recipes from one phone to another phone (except to your online account and back, one at a time)

Update: BS version 3.0.8 has fixed the Brew Day timers! Not only are they working again, it appears that a paused timer will no longer issue an event notification based on the original unpaused schedule (old BS2 mobile bug). So the requirement to totally rewrite the timer code for Android was worth the wait :) I'd give it five stars if it could pull my inventory from the BS cloud. Cheers!

I've had this app for three days and have been migrating recipes from another app. In three days I've had one folder and two recipes disappear, twice. I was able to recover the recipes by "rebuilding" the recipe list in the options menu, but now I can't trust the app to store my recipes. Otherwise I love the app, but so far its calculators are not worth the risk or the time lost backing up recipes on another platform and restoring them in this app. Definitely not an app worth paying for.

What's new

- Updated app for Android Target API 34
- Android 14 and higher requires SetExact and Notification permission for the in-app Brewday alarm timer to work properly
- Notifications play default notification sound for Brewday timer - set your notification sound in Android to something distinct when using timer
- For recent Android versions, you must explicitly enable notification permission for BeerSmith to use the notifications for brewday timer