# IKAWA Home

> Food & Drink

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1187816119](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1187816119)

## Overview

- **ID:** `id1187816119`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** IKAWA ltd.
- **Category:** Food & Drink
- **Rating:** 1.80 / 5 (39 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.1.4
- **Last updated:** 2023-05-17
- **First published:** 2017-05-21
- **Size:** 81 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ikawa-home/id1187816119)
- **Website:** [https://ikawahome.com/](https://ikawahome.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.ikawacoffee.com/privacy-policy/](https://www.ikawacoffee.com/privacy-policy/)

## Description

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.

Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Rankings

- #276,735 — Overall

## Review summary

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).

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