IKAWA Home

Name: IKAWA Home
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: IKAWA ltd.

By: IKAWA ltd.

Food & Drink

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Features & Capabilities

THE IKAWA HOME ROASTING SYSTEM The IKAWA Home app forms an integral part of the roasting system by IKAWA Home and is designed only to be used with the IKAWA Home Roaster, our award winning and easy to use home coffee roasting machine.

TAKE YOUR COFFEE TO THE NEXT LEVEL The IKAWA Home App serves as a companion to your coffee roasting journey on the IKAWA Home Roaster, allowing you to manage and monitor your roasts, all from the palm of your hands!

THE BEST COFFEE YOU'VE EVER PREPARED IKAWA's curated selection of green beans is sourced for the very highest flavour potential and comes with a range of roast controls to explore via the app - including recommended roasts. With you in control, it could be the best coffee you’ve ever made.

TAP, TAP, GO SIMPLE! Roasting on the IKAWA Home Roaster has become an even more enjoyable and rewarding process with the latest update to the app. The new recipe dashboard and controls allow for a quick roast set-up based on your preferences, and it only takes about 10 minutes to roast!

YOUR UNIQUE COFFEE COLLECTION Store, manage, and engage with your green coffees and roast recipes easily from your library - all backed up in the cloud. Get started with IKAWA's curated range of green beans and recommended recipes.

DYNAMIC RECIPE DASHBOARD IKAWA Home roast recipes inform, empower, and close the gap between roasting inputs and the flavours in your cup. For IKAWA's beans, the app dynamically displays expected flavour characteristics and roast stage timestamps.

INTUITIVE ROAST CONTROLS The Home App includes two controls when creating recipes for IKAWA green beans: Roast Degree and Development Time. Explore up to 30 different roasting combinations per coffee to create and achieve your favourite roasts.

INCREDIBLE COFFEE OUT OF THE BOX Sample the high-quality green beans from around the world included when you purchase the IKAWA Home Roasting System. Scan the QR code on each coffee pack in the App to unlock a wealth of information about your chosen beans and start exploring our recommended recipes and controls.

Your Coffee Roasting Journey Starts Here.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

IKAWA ltd.

Rating:

5.00

(2) 3.20

Version:

3.1.4 Last updated: 2023-05-17

Version code:

854217433

Creation date:

2017-05-21

Compatible devices:

Size:

81.27MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-07

Compare stats and ranking:

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# 315,433 ▼ 1,041

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Developed by:

IKAWA ltd.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/cn/app/ikawa-home/id1187816119?l=en-GB

Website:

https://ikawahome.com/

User Reviews

Overall, IKAWA Home is praised for hardware quality, but the app is fault-prone and controversial due to a costly subscription, reliability gaps, limited customization, and a frustrating UX. Repeated issues include login and save failures, Bluetooth connectivity, missing roast tracking, and updates that delete recipes or alter editing usability. The strongest sentiment is that the hardware is solid while the app experience significantly detracts from the value.

Pros

Hardware quality and design are praised; IKAWA Home roaster is well-built and attractive.
Onboarding and basic roasting workflow feel straightforward when the app is functioning (e.g., simple roast setup and QR-code scanning for beans).
Profile management features (e.g., cleaning up or deleting old profiles across devices) are noted as a helpful capability in the app.

Cons

Mandatory or expensive subscription to access core app features like roast customization; policy described as bait-and-switch.
Frequent app instability: crashes, login issues, Bluetooth pairing problems, and inability to save or sync roasts/profiles.
Limitations on customization: trouble using non-IKAWA beans, inability to add own recipes, and reliance on graph editor with high costs.
Poor UI/UX and updates that make editing harder (e.g., changes to profile editing, time/elapsed display) and data loss such as recipe deletion.
Support and responsiveness concerns: slow or no responses from developers and slow fixes for known issues; some OS compatibility problems (iOS updates).

Recent reviews

I love the machine itself. Beautiful design and great functionality. The app on the other hand is infuriating. The app does not save roast profiles consistently, even for IKAWA’s own beans. It is difficult to create profiles for beans that are not from IKAWA, and the information input allowed is insufficient. The ability to track roasts was a large consideration in purchasing this roaster, and honestly, after 4 months of using the machine and app, I am very disappointed and frustrated. I contacted IKAWA about the roast profiles not being tracked months ago and was told it was a known issue, but nothing has changed.

by Wi*****, 2025-04-06

I love the IKAWA hardware but the app is pretty mediocre. So so UX, no real grouping sorting or other ways to organize. But charging $6 a month just to be able to get more fine tune control on my roasting for a $1300 machine is just, frankly, greed. The app is not nearly good enough to warrant spending money on it. Making my purchase of the machine pretty questionable. Since the app is literally the only way to roast with it.

by Ga*****, 2025-01-13

Just bought my roaster and I can’t even sign into this app. Now I’m reading reviews and dining out my $1300 roaster is a popcorn popper if I don’t pay for a monthly subscription that lets me use it. hahahhahahhahahjajahhahahha Ready to get your roaster back IKAWA?