Description
Brew Pilot is the offline-first brewing companion that lives in your pocket and on your wrist. Design recipes on your phone, share them with a single QR code, and execute flawlessly on brew day with cascading timers and real-time calculations...all without internet, without accounts, without monthly subscriptions.
BREW DAY FEATURES
• Cascading equipment-aware timers for steep, mash, boil, and fermentation
• Real-time mash pH calculator with water chemistry adjustments
• Integrated brew log with one-tap step completion
• Souring, fermentation, and aging phase tracking with editable start time...see exactly how many days into each phase you are
• Auto-filled rack, keg, and bottle dates when you check off the matching step
• Per-brew-day Live Activities & Dynamic Island timer...run multiple batches at once without losing your place
• Apple Watch Companion (watchOS + iPhone 15+)
RECIPE DESIGN
• Complete all-grain, extract, partial mash, kettle sour, and mixed fermentation recipes
• 109 BJCP style profiles with gravity ranges and characteristics
• Group recipes by broad style...every IPA, Stout, Lager, or Sour in your library in one glance
• Live ingredient library...tweak a grain's PPG, a yeast's notes, or a water profile, and every recipe that uses it picks up the change
• Searchable ingredient libraries...find the grain, hop, yeast, or adjunct you need in seconds
• BeerXML import/export (compatible with Brewfather, BeerSmith, Brewer's Friend)
• Unlimited recipes in free tier
RECIPE SHARING
• QR codes - share a complete recipe by scan or photo; no account, no login, no link to click
• Universal Links - recipients without the app see a styled web preview at share.brewpilotapp.com
• Custom ingredients travel with the recipe - your custom grains, hops, and yeast auto-populate the recipient's library on scan
• Universal stats - every shared card uses a standard efficiency so the numbers represent the recipe, not your specific brewery
• Long-press the QR on a saved image to open it directly, no second device needed
WHY BREW PILOT WINS
• Offline-first: No internet required, no data harvesting
• No account needed: Your recipes stay on your phone
• Free forever: Full recipe design + brew logs, zero paywalls
• One-time Pro ($24.99): Advanced water chemistry, BJCP profiles, multiple equipment setups, iCloud sync
• watchOS + Dynamic Island: Brew day timer on your wrist - no phone needed
• Cascading timers: All timers sync, reset, and pause together
MADE FOR HOMEBREWERS WHO VALUE SIMPLICITY
Built by someone who got tired of paying subscriptions for software that didn't work when you needed it most. No email harvesting. No monthly charges. Just a tool that disappears into your brew day and gets out of the way.
FREE FOREVER. PREMIUM ONCE.
• Brew Pilot is free with unlimited recipes, QR recipe sharing, BeerXML / JSON import and export, 1 active brew day, full brew day tracking, and 7 ready-to-brew house recipes.
• Brew Pilot Premium unlocks pro calculators, BJCP style compliance, stepped mash, multiple equipment setups, water chemistry, cost tracking, iCloud sync, PDF brew sheets, Apple Watch companion, and cross-batch insights with a single one-time purchase.
• No subscription. No recurring fees. Ever.
Nouveautés (v1.6.5)
1.6:
*QR Code Recipe Exporting*
Recipes can now be encoded directly into a QR code - no database storage needed. All recipe data is contained inside the QR code itself. Infinite sharing capabilities!
*Other Improvements*
- More accurate whirlpool IBU calculations
- ~20 new ingredients added to library
- UX improvements on recipe builder including clear distinction between hop additions
- added pop-up info menu for all ingredients showing the ingredient details
- cleaned up Versioning sequence for children vs sibling recipes
- dozens of minor UI/UX improvements
- Souring, fermentation and aging are now time tracked and displayed on brew day card
- Cleaned up “group by style” view in recipe list
- Auto-fill for date racked, date kegged and date bottled
- Water profile library edits auto-propagate through
- minor bug fixes on live activity
- Light/Dark/System toggle
- Bug fix causing metric numbers to break the decimal point when typing
- fixed metric conversion on forced carb calculator
- added all grain/extract/partial mash/sour info to QR card information
- Yeast Calculator updated to support multi-step starters
- Fixed Mash pH calculator not allowing for changing ingredient weights
- Fermentation temperature profiles are now available for every yeast! Customize them in the Yeast Library.
1.6.5: Yeast cell count calculation and packet/pouch recommendation added to brew day pitch yeast step