# BeerSmith Mobile Home Brewing > Food & Drink Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/id640670118](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id640670118) ## Overview - **ID:** `id640670118` - **Platform:** Apple - **Type:** Apple app - **Status:** Available - **Publisher:** BeerSmith LLC - **Category:** Food & Drink - **Rating:** 3.10 / 5 (32 ratings) - **Version:** 3.1.09 - **Last updated:** 2020-10-11 - **First published:** 2013-05-06 - **Size:** 29 MB - **Data as of:** 2026-09-21 - **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/beersmith-mobile-home-brewing/id640670118) - **Website:** [http://beersmith.com/mobile](http://beersmith.com/mobile) - **Privacy policy:** [http://beersmith.com/privacy](http://beersmith.com/privacy) ## Description The 3.1 version of BeerSmith moves to an SQL based database for improved reliability, an improved menu system, as well as new brewing features. Do you want to create great beer recipes on the go? BeerSmith 3, the world's top selling home brewing software, comes to iPhone/iPad. BeerSmith Mobile gives you all the tools to design, edit and brew your best beer from your phone or tablet. BeerSmith mobile is tightly integrated with our recipe cloud service and desktop BeerSmith program making it easy to create recipes from your desktop computer or phone and share them transparently. Save a recipe on your desktop cloud folder and open it on your phone. In addition our BeerSmithRecipes search function puts thousands of new recipes at your fingertips. An integrated brew day timer with step by step instructions, brewing calculators and tools for converting units rounds out this great app! The ultimate app for BeerSmith users - create a recipe at your desktop cloud folder, walk our the door and edit the recipe from your phone or tablet! Features: - BJCP 2015 Beer Style Guide included, plus mead, wine, cider guide - Ability to fully edit recipe and brew session data - Editing of ingredients including hops, grains, misc, water, and yeast - Full edit of profiles including equipment, mash profiles, aging and carbonation - Functions to scale a recipe by equipment, alter color, original gravity or bitterness - Ability to save profiles or ingredients from an existing recipe to your phone database - Search, view and select from thousands of recipes on BeerSmithRecipes.com - Brewday timer for steep, mash and boil with notifications and alarms - Ability to store recipes you find locally or to your cloud account - Full integration with the desktop version of BeerSmith via your cloud folder - Any recipe you move to your desktop cloud folder can be used in the app! - Full beer style guide in app for reference - Seven calculators including: hydrometer adjust, infusions, alcohol/attenuation, mash adjust, weight/volume, refractometer and carbonation - Five unit converters: temperature, gravity, weight, volume, pressure What's New: Version 3 of BeerSmith adds: - Support for mead, wine and cider recipes (as well as beer) - Local and cloud based recipe folders for managing your recipes - Water profile and mash pH tools integrated with the recipe for beer brewing - Updated ingredients, profiles and style databases including hundreds of new ingredients Build 3.0.10 Adds: - Added new provisional BJCP beers styles to style guide - Corrected issues with adding juices to some recipes - Corrected wrong units on some fields in session page - Corrected issues with some recipes being downloaded from cloud correctly - Corrected issue with brewday timer not displaying correctly on some recipes - Corrected issue with not being able to edit yeast tolerance for yeast items ## Rankings - #241,371 — Overall ## Review summary Users praise BeerSmith Mobile for its strong brewing tools and cloud recipe access, noting its intuitive interface and broad recipe library. However, recurring issues limit its value: frequent crashes and glitches, unreliable timers, and problems saving or editing recipes. Some users also report weak synchronization with desktop versions and requests for better import support. A few reviewers still find it powerful for planning and designing beers, but overall stability concerns and feature gaps are common across reviews. ### Pros - Powerful calculation and conversion tools for brew day - Cloud-based recipe storage and cross-device access - Intuitive, easy-to-use interface with helpful tutorials - Comprehensive brewing toolkit and recipe encyclopedia ### Cons - Frequent crashes and glitches, causing instability - Timer issues: not reliable, often not audible or missing during brew - Inability to save/edit recipes reliably; data loss - Limited desktop syncing/import compatibility; manual transfer - Clunky or hard-to-use UI ## Similar extensions and apps - [Brewtist](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1484737801) — 4.50 / 5 - [Brew Cloud: Homebrew Recipes](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1254193793) — 4.60 / 5 - [Brewfather](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1488585822) — 4.90 / 5 - [Breww](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1500734193) — 4.90 / 5 - [BrewVision](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1118434748) — 3.00 / 5 - [Brew Logic – Craft Beer Lab](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6761222249) - [Beer Lab](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1359830802) — 4.10 / 5 - [BeerCrafter](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1527708564) - [Grainfather Community](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1169264880) — 4.00 / 5 - [HomeBrew Kit](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id1084484136) - [Fermenticus Brew Log](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id627800046) — 4.20 / 5 - [Brew Pilot: Brew Better Beer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id6761862460) — 5.00 / 5 --- Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/id640670118)