Brew Pal App Reviews

Unfortunately, unlike the first reviewer I wasnt able to recover my recipes (33 of them) even though they were supposedly backed up to the iCloud. I hope an app update will fix these issues.

I love this app for developing recipes and brewing but I lost all of my recipes. I had 15 to 20 which was a lot of invested time. Now I have names but all of the ingredients are gone. It should have synced but something is not working right. Only the names and general info were retained. If this worked it would be five stars.

Was fine prior to this release. Cant print to airprinter. Cant remove ingredients from a recipe. No response when emailing support. Youve got my $, now Ill need to look elsewhere for a viable brewing app.

Like so many other users, I lost all my recipes with the latest update. This was a decent app with a few minor flaws, and I used it happily for a couple of years. But the ONE job it needed to do properly—recipe creation and retention—it failed at in the worst possible way. Time for me to search for backups... and find a more reliable app.

If you asked me a month ago I would have given rave reviews of BrewPal. Now, like everyone else, I lost a couple of years worth of recipes. Ive tried some tricks others ha e tried to the them back to no avail. Customer service is non-existent. Will give them a chance with next update, otherwise it is useless.

This is my go to app for both creating recipes and brewing. Even can quickly adjust things if I run into problems while brewing. It is great that one can change the defaults of grains and hops. I only have two wants/requests for the app. First is to have more grains added, e.g. Briess. Or, the ability for individuals to add/save their own malts and hops. Second would be the ability to export a PDF of your recipes. One can email the recipe and save the PDF of the email, but a clean PDF would be better. That way I feel my recipes are safer than just being in an app.

After losing all of my recipes with the latest update, I created a new one just last weekend, and now it shows up with all ???s and null values as well. Which essentially means even for new users, it doesnt work anymore. It seems to be completely useless right now.

I used to love this app but all my recipes are now corrupt. They all are blank or "null" in all their fields now. Also happens to new recipes. Add a fermentable to a new recipe and it shows up as "null". Very frustrating.

I used brew pal for several years. After you get used to its quirks, it was very functional. Sadly, a recent update trashed all of my recipes, and Ive emailed the developer twice with no response. Unfortunately a program is only as good as its support, and Im migrating to other software.

Ive used Brew Pal for over a year, and now its all that I brew with. Ive used many other brew computers, but for the money, this is the best deal with the best performance. And, I can use it anywhere! The "Brew Now!" function is perfect no matter how many boil hop additions, adjunct additions, or dry hop additions you have. The fact that Brew Pal follows and times your beer from mash to bottling is the best part. New ingredients are added all the time, and the predictions are very accurate... once you get it tuned to your brew house. I use the style guide to tweak my recipes to fit styles perfectly, no matter how adventurous my recipe is. If you create your own recipes, you will not regret this app. If you brew from kits or print recipes this app will keep you perfectly on track. Ive read many of the other reviews, and Ive never had any of the issues people are complaining about. Ive found that 99% of bad reviews in the App Store are because of user error or poor phone maintenance (you cant run your apps properly with 98%+ of your memory full, people). Gotta go - the Brew Pal alarm just told me I have a hop addition.

I have used this for years and have (had) over twenty (some award winning) recipes. Recently though, everything disappeared and after no response from the developer, I had to switch to Beer Smith. I would still like to get my old recipes back but it looks grim.

The idea of the app is great. The functionality and overall reliability of the app has gone downhill time after time. Recipes keep disappearing and the timers are not the best. I have uninstalled the app and have no plans on using the app anytime soon. Not worth the $1.99 anymore.

Ive looked and use many brew apps. This is the only one that I keep coming back too. It makes my life easy with the timers and gravity calculator and refractomitor converter. Just all around great app.

Used to be my go to App for brewing. Fairly easy to use. Recipes have disappeared before but always came back. Looks like they are gone for good now.

Ive used this app for a year and a half and noticed as my recipe count increased it was slow to load. Once the new iOS 9 released I lost all of my recipes. I tried emailing support and never heard back. Good app for formulating but do yourself a favor and print out what youre brewing and take your notes there. ************* 11/24/15 Update: With an iOS update I enabled iCloud Drive which provided the iCloud Sync option and restored ALL of my recipes. I still print out and take notes of all recipes; just good practice and backup. The timer notifications are no longer working on the app which is a bit of a pain but you just have to pay closer attention to your boil schedule.

I like this app. I have it on iPhone and iPad and I would like it to sync info between the two.

Basic functionality of this app has been limited as the developer seem swamped with updating and maintaining this app. its unfortunate that things as basic as sending an email of your recipe are broken

I never buy apps. This is the lone exception. My friends all recommended it so I bit the bullet. So glad that I did. Great for recipe creation, quick calculations, and brew day planning. A few minor bugs related to ingredient addition dont affect the ability of this app. A little more explanation of what some of the options do, particularly with the mash options, would help. Bottom line: well worth the money.

Title says it all. Plus there is no way to manually enter an ingredient. Say I have Wakatu hops but Brew Pal does not...it would be nice if I could manually add the name, item type, alpha acid, etc. In addition, the developer seems to be MIA.

This app is my brewing assistant on EVERY brew day.