Setup

Your gear

Looking after your gear

Show when logging a shot

Water temperature

For machines where you can set it

Pre-infusion

For machines where you control the soak before full pressure

Star ratings

Score how much you enjoyed each shot

Flavour notes

Tap the flavours you noticed

Reminders

When a new bag has finished resting, and when a cleaning job is due. Never more than that.

Haptics

A tap when the timer starts and stops, and when the shot reaches its window

Gear suggestions

In Insights, only when your own shots point to something that would help. They never change the advice.

Appearance

Theme

Auto follows your phone

Tester report

How it's going at the machine

Worked out on this phone. Nothing leaves it unless you send or copy it.

Your data

Backup

PDF journal

Every coffee with its photo, best recipe and shots, as a PDF to keep or send

How Dial-In works

The four-step loop, in a minute

How Dial-In makes money

It doesn't, yet. If a gear link ever earns a commission it will say Ad right beside it, and it will never change what the coach tells you.

Tell a friend

Know someone with a machine and a sour shot?

Today's coffee

Make the advice fit your kit. Tell Dial-In your machine, your grinder (or that you buy ground coffee) and whether you have scales. Takes about 30 seconds.

How Dial-In works

Weigh your coffee in and set your grinder.
Pull the shot with the timer running, then weigh what came out.
Taste it and tap how it was — sour, bitter or just right.
Follow the next step Dial-In gives you. Most bags are dialled in within 3–5 shots.

Your next shot

Grind setting

Your shots

0 shots

Your beans

Your bags live here — tap one to brew with it.

Insights

Your recipe

This shot is for

GrindLower is finer

Coffee inDose · in

Coffee outYield · outIn the cup

Shot time

Water temp

Pre-infusion

Weigh coffee in and out on kitchen scales. Fill the double basket to just below the rim, level it and tamp. Judge what's in the cup by its markings or a shot glass. Tap a number to type it, or hold + / − to move faster.

Setup

Looking after your gear

Show when logging a shot

Appearance

Tester report

Your data

How Dial-In works

Your next shot

Your shots

Your beans

Insights

Your first shot

How did it taste?

Your recipe

Your coffee

A recipe to start from

Your journal