Brewer's Friend Alternatives

Brewer's Friend is described as 'Set of tools and homebrewing information to help you brew your very best, every time. Easy to use for beginners with powerful features for advanced brewers' and is an app in the home & family category. There are more than 10 alternatives to Brewer's Friend for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Web-based and iPhone apps. The best Brewer's Friend alternative is Brewtarget, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Brewer's Friend are Brew Recipe Developer, QBrew, StrangeBrew Java and brewsta.

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Brewer's Friend alternatives page was last updated Nov 15, 2021
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  1. Brewtarget icon
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    Brewtarget is FREE brewing software, and an open source beer recipe creation tool available for Linux, Mac, and Windows. It automatically calculates color, bitterness, and other parameters for you while you drag and drop ingredients into the recipe.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    Brewtarget Features

    1.  Timer
    2.  QT Based
    3.  Homebrew
    4.  Multiple languages

    Brewtarget VS Brewer's Friend

     
    • Brewtarget is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Brewer's Friend.

    • Brewtarget is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Brewer's Friend.

    • Brewtarget is Free and Open SourceBrewer's Friend is Freemium and Proprietary
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    Brew Recipe Developer is a Windows application that may help to develop brewing recipes. All sub-processes, start up from the selection of raw materials, over wort preparation, fermentable content, mashing process in any kind, hops, first and second fermentation(...

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

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  3. QBrew icon
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    Homebrewer's recipe calculator.

    Use this to formulate recipes for ales, lagers and stouts. It also includes a brewing primer for those just starting out in the homebrewing hobby.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    Discontinued

    The project is no longer developed. Last version, 0.4.1, released in May 2008, can be still downloaded from the official website.

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    StrangeBrew Java is a Java port of the popular Windows homebrewing software, StrangeBrew.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

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    Brewsta, design, store and edit beer recipes. Cross platform home brewing software.home-brewing

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Latest release, v1 1b36, was released on Feb 25th, 2007.

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    MacBarley is a Macintosh application that allows a home brewer to formulate beer recipes and calculate bitterness, gravity, alcohol, color etc. It is written in Cocoa (Objective C) and is compatible with Mac OS 10.5 or later.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Discontinued

    Latest release, 0.2, was released on Apr 22nd, 2008.

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    An open tool, tied to www.hobbybirra.com, to formulate, manage, preview homebrewing recipes, upload them to a common repository, and share them with other homebrewers. Latest official releases on http://www.hobbybirra.

    License model

    • FreeOpen Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Discontinued

    Latest release was released on Oct 10th, 2009.

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  8. Brewfather icon
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    Brewfather allows you to easily create and manage your homebrewing recipes as well as keep track of all the details in your batches and your ingredients inventory.

    License model

    • FreemiumProprietary

    Application type

    Country of Origin

    • NO flagNorway

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)

    Brewfather Features

    1.  Works Offline
    2.  Web-Based
    3.  Cloud based
    4.  Progressive Web App

    Brewfather VS Brewer's Friend

     
    • Brewfather is the most popular Web-based, iPhone, iPad & SaaS alternative to Brewer's Friend.

    • Brewfather is Freemium and ProprietaryBrewer's Friend is also Freemium and Proprietary
  9. BeerSmith icon
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    Learn to brew beer at home and join one of the most active homebrewing communities on the web. Home brewing recipes, forum, software, articles, podcast and much more.

    License model

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire

    BeerSmith VS Brewer's Friend

     
    • BeerSmith is the most popular Android & Android Tablet alternative to Brewer's Friend.

    • BeerSmith is the most popular commercial alternative to Brewer's Friend.

    • BeerSmith is Paid and ProprietaryBrewer's Friend is Freemium and Proprietary
  10. Brew Friar icon
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    BrewFriar is project based, that means that you will first setup your project, define what ingredients and equipment you need.

    License model

    Platforms

    • Windows

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    BrewComputer can become the main tool for any homebrewer or a small craft brewery. Its core tool is a recipe calculator. You can create, adjust and calculate recipes, record brew sessions, manage equipment, share recipes with other brewers.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Platforms

    • Online

    BrewComputer Features

    1.  Homebrew

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  12. MIBrew icon
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    MIBrew is a free, easy to use tool, to help homebrewers create, discover and brew great beer.

    License model

    • FreeProprietary

    Country of Origin

    • US flagUnited States

    Platforms

    • Online

    MIBrew Features

    1.  Web-Based
    2.  Homebrew

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