GINA – Smart coffee brewer 4+
Goat Story
ZkotZ
Designed for iPad
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- Free
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Description
GINA's brewing app is home to a global community of coffee lovers as well as your new favourite smart tool for brewing coffee. The app guides you through the entire brewing process, keeping track of your timing and saving your brewing details as brew prints for sharing and later re-brewing. With the tools provided you will certainly be able to brew your perfect cup of coffee and share your experience with other coffee enthusiasts from around the world.
Features:
Guides you through the entire process of your chosen brewing method
Tracks your entire brewing process with timing and notifications
Calculates the coffee to water ratio, the timing for each brewing method and the drop speed for your cold brew
Create your own brew prints
Save them for the future (with name, timing, ground type and water temperature)
Share them with global community to try them out and rate them
Connect with other coffee lovers and try out their brew prints
Learn from the best coffee pros: World renowned baristas and coffee roasters!
Social:
https://www.facebook.com/GOATSTORYcoffee/
https://www.instagram.com/goat_story/
What’s New
Version 1.0.70
With the June 2020 update, we're implementing ...
- Improved Bluetooth connectivity
- Expanded translation to Japanese
- The Brew Bar expansion
- Fixes for various minor bugs and glitches
Ratings and Reviews
Gina awesome - the app not so much!
This app reminds me of the old Soviet Lada cars - its a barely functional, smoking mess. Standard journeys in pour over and immersion work fine, but hit any pothole and you are guaranteed off the road.
It’s a shame, because the Gina itself is a BMW. Quality build, and onboard electronics that are great - except that there aren’t any visible instruments of course! This means that the app is the only way to access Ginas $100 ‘Smart’ features.
It’s been 3 years since launch and my BMW Gina still hasn’t had a satisfactory Lada
features update. In fact, the latest app version has gone from 1.5 to 1.0.7!
Get with the program Goat Story! Users are well advised to put the Gina on a separate scale until you update this app - or better still, release an open source api and let the development community create a BMW interface for you!
The coffee brewer is great but the app is worse than useless
My app loses the data from the cold drip brew halfway through the process so if I haven’t kept careful track of where I am in the brew, the brew is sabotaged. The Gina brewer itself is great but if I were buying again I’d get the non-smart version unless the app were to improve to the point of being functional for a longer brew. I have a joule sous vide and often use the joule and joule app to perform a cooking operation that takes several hours. The joule app doesn’t restart every time I navigate back to it and even if it were to do so it keeps track of what I am cooking and sends me notifications and would be able to reload all the data from the cooking action I was in the middle of. The Gina app forgets I’m in the middle of a brew and forgets all the details of that brew after ten minutes. So I could likely complete a faster brew method before the app sabotaged my brew, but the cold drip coffee brew is meant to take hours. My joule app clearly walks me through the steps I need to follow whether I am doing my own settings or following a recipe through the app. The Gina app doesn’t provide clear instructions and instead funnels you to videos with irritating elevator music in lieu of written directions. Thus if you want to double check one point in the brewing process it is hard to get that info off the app without having to rewatch the whole video.
App is a hot mess
-Won’t save your login, so you see login screen each time on open. Annoying.
- Tutorial UI is confusing. You have to X out of a pop up to continue the tutorial instead of a swipe or “next”, which isn’t in line with Apple design guidelines.
- App won’t save state on suspend, which means the scale resets if you send a text/call or literally anything else during brew. So you’ll lose track of water:bean ratio... therefore if you’ve happened to add water already you’re totally boned. 0 chance of recovery.
- Main brew screen has confusing UI as well. Why is the anvil icon non-tappable and what is it there for? Why does pressing continue give no feedback? Seriously just lay out what I need to set in-app and give prompts on the phone screen for what needs to happen with the GINA.
I’ve brewed three times and screwed up the app workflow each time. I’m beginning to think the app workflow, with its idiosyncrasies and 0 visual cues, is poor.
Honestly just make it open source so I can fix it.
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Information
- Seller
- ZKOTZ d.o.o.
- Size
- 55.4 MB
- Category
- Food & Drink
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 8.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 8.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2020 ZkotZ d.o.o.
- Price
- Free