Design and brew great homebrewing beer, mead, cider and wine recipes on the go!
BeerSmith 3 Mobile Homebrewing brings desktop-grade homebrewing to Android, enabling on-the-go design and brew of beer, mead, wine, and cider. It connects mobile recipes with the desktop BeerSmith cloud and thousands of recipes, powered by integrated timers, calculators, and cloud syncing. With 50,000+ total downloads and 190 in the last 30 days, it's a trusted choice for mobile homebrewers.
Pros & Cons
Desktop-like recipe design with cloud syncing across devices
Comprehensive brewday toolkit including timers, calculators, and unit converters
Multi-beverage support (beer, mead, wine, cider) with full editing capabilities
Access to thousands of recipes via BeerSmithRecipes.com
No explicit notes/logging features listed
No explicit sharing functionality mentioned
One-time price of $4.99 may deter casual users
About BeerSmith 3 Mobile Homebrewing
BeerSmith 3 Mobile Homebrewing is a lifestyle app developed by BeerSmith LLC.
Download Statistics
BeerSmith 3 Mobile Homebrewing has been downloaded 87 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 190 times. It is ranked in the top 100 lifestyle apps.
User Ratings
BeerSmith 3 Mobile Homebrewing is rated 3.66 out of 5 stars. The rating is based on 1.5 thousand ratings.
App Information
BeerSmith 3 Mobile Homebrewing costs $4.99 to download. The APK download size is 7.30 MB. The latest version available is 3.2.9. The last update was on August 10, 2025.
Technical Requirements
BeerSmith 3 Mobile Homebrewing requires Android 4.1+ or higher. The app has a content rating of High Maturity. The app has been available on Google Play May 2013.
Description
Need to create great homebrewing beer recipes on the go? BeerSmith 3, the world's top selling beer brewing software, now adds mead, wine and cider support. BeerSmith Mobile gives you all the tools to design, edit and brew your best beer from your phone or tablet. BeerSmith home brewing 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: - Support for beer, mead, wine and cider recipes - Water adjustment and mash pH estimation in the recipe builder - Updated ingredient databases and add-ons - 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
Recent changes: - Updated app for Android Target API 35 - Android 14 and higher requires SetExact and Notification permission for the in-app Brewday alarm timer to work properly - Notifications play default notification sound for Brewday timer - set your notification sound in Android to something distinct when using timer - For recent Android versions, you must explicitly enable notification permission for BeerSmith to use the notifications for brewday timer
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Comments on BeerSmith 3 Mobile Homebrewing for Android
★★★★★
First of all, I've been using the desktop version 2 - never upgraded to version 3. I got a tablet, so I decided that I'd get the Android version. After struggling a bit, I figured I can send profiles and recipes from one to the other using the "Cloud" which allows to share 15 recipes for free. I was also able to copy my equipment from the Desktop version to the tablet (transfer a recipe with the right profile to the cloud - check the profile details within the recipe and save to your mobile instance). So people that complain it's not possible to go from one to the other, please try and check online info before complaining. I think the 15 recipes for the free cloud account is good enough to get you going. If you want more, you should get the full cloud account. This being said, the UI is not the greatest - I agree. I guess you get used to it after a while, but It's not the case for me yet. I'm used to having the desktop brew sheet printed where I can check off things and write readings, so it's easier to follow. But, the essential info is there and that's the important. I do think it's a good tool that needs getting used to it. It does allow me to plan and execute my brew day using a recipe I developped on the Desktop version - that's all which is important. Therefore, I guess it's an allright tool for me.
★★★★★
Not very clear on how everything adds up and when it came time to figure out how much water to add it made me ruin a batch because I misread it. So kind of my bad but had it been clear I'd have given 5 stars. Still a great app and helps me calculate all my mash loss and any other variables to have a great brew each time (after I kind of figured out the water. This time I didn't hit my volume for my fermentor I was aiming for, so it was less than 5 gallons. I wish this was better)
★★☆☆☆
Cool for getting a general recipe in the works when you're just getting started. BUT the gravity, SRM, and IBU outlines have never matched up on the brew day. I've had better luck when my friend made recipes for me on the PC version.
★★☆☆☆
I'm a long time Beer Smith user, started with version 1.3 I figured it's high time I moved to using a tablet rather than a bulky laptop. I kinda wish I hadn't. Clunky slow interface, local search doesn't work when using nested folders, can't import Beer XML, can't import equipment profiles or water profiles, no export, no backup/restore. Unless you use the cloud function, you're humped. There are free products that do all of these things, yet we're held captive with paid software. Not impressed.
★★☆☆☆
Beer smith explicitly prevents backing up recipes & equip/ingredient profiles. I'm unable to transfer the data I've spent years working on to a new device. The app itself provides no way to export data, and it also prevents native Android data backup, resulting in me being unable to transfer my data to a new device. I posted about it on the Beer smith forum, but my account (and post) got banned with no explanation other than "spam". I even provided error log messages to the developer to help.
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Technologies used by BeerSmith 3 Mobile Homebrewing
BeerSmith 3 Mobile Homebrewing is requesting 27 permissions and is using 3 libraries.
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Trust & Safety: Uses standard Android permissions such as internet access, notifications, wake lock, and license checks. On Android 14+ devices, explicit notification permission is required for the Brewday timer. This aligns with typical safety expectations for a homebrewing app, especially given cloud/desktop integration via the BeerSmith ecosystem.
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