Launching today
Crema
The coffee bag journal that learns your grind.
3 followers
The coffee bag journal that learns your grind.
3 followers
Crema is a small, beautifully-opinionated espresso journal. Photograph a new coffee bag and on-device OCR extracts the details. Track each dial-in attempt — dose, yield, time, grind, taste, texture — and rate the drinks you make (espresso, cortado, iced latte, cappuccino, or your own). As your history grows, Crema suggests starting grind settings for new bags based on your own ratings on similar roasts and learns your profile taste and spend. No app store, no account wall, no tracking, no ads.
Hey everyone! I'm Nour — I work with data for a living and pull espresso at home every morning (sometimes at night too).
I built Crema because I got tired of forgetting what worked. Every new bag meant starting from scratch — what grind did I use? What ratio? How did it taste as a latte vs straight espresso?
I tried Notes, spreadsheets, even writing on the bag. Nothing stuck.
So I built what I actually wanted: a simple journal where you log your beans, track your dial-in, rate drinks by type, and the app suggests where to start your grind next time based on your gear.
A few things that make it different:
📦 Collect your bags — every bag gets a page. Roaster, origin, roast level, tasting notes, a photo. Like a little coffee library you actually keep
☕ Rate by drink type — because that Ethiopian natural that's incredible as an iced americano might be average as a cappuccino. Rate them separately
🎯 Dial in your grind — dose, yield, ratio, time, grind setting. Log every attempt until you nail it
📊 Watch your analytics grow — best bags, total spent, price per shot, average rating, grind sweet spot by drink type. The kind of stuff you don't notice until you see it all together
🔗 Share a bag — when you find something special, send it to a friend
I'd love honest feedback — what's missing? What would make you open this every morning? ☕