The specialty coffee app from Berlin

Coffee that matches your palate.

Forget star ratings. Cupd scores every café against your palate: your favourite roasters, the origins you keep coming back to.

Get the app Open the web app See Taste Match

The web app runs in any browser. Add it to your home screen.

The best part starts at home. Scan the bag, and Brew Lab writes the recipe for your grinder and counts you through the pour: the moment a barista leans over and tells you what to change, only without the barista.

Free in your browser and in the iPhone beta. Your palate, your match, your recipe.
‹TASTE MATCH
Five Elephant
92%
STRONG MATCH
Almost your cup of coffee.
BREAKDOWN
Flavor Notes81 %
Roasters93 %
Brewing Methods95 %
Processing100 %
Origin88 %
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Craving something?
EspressoFilterOpen nowNearest
92 %
Five ElephantKREUZBERG · 0.6 KM
● OpenGuji · Natural
The Barn87 %
Mitte · Open until 18:00 · 1.4 km
HomeExploreBrew LabFavoritesProfile
92
New Taste Match nearbyFive Elephant · 0.6 km
✓
Recipe suggestion readyV60 · 15 g → 250 ml
My Palate → Taste Match

You set the taste.We do the math.

My Palate holds everything Taste Match weighs, and it's the only source you control. Change anything here, and every café's score updates: one honest number, every dimension one tap away.

RoastersProcessingBrewingOriginFlavor Notes
My palate
ROAST DNAConfident
48%Bright & Clean
42% Clean & Balanced · 10% Deep & Comforting
FLAVOR NOTES4 notes
Chocolate, Caramel, Honey, Brown Sugar
PROCESSING
Washed
ORIGIN4/5
🇨🇴🇵🇦🇨🇷🇸🇻
MY ROASTERSRanked
1Tim Wendelboe
2The Barn
3Coffee Collective
DRINKS
Espresso, Filter / Pour Over
BREWING METHODS
V60, AeroPress
+1 more
COFFEE LEVEL
Getting Nerdy
My Roasters

Ranked. The ones you pin up top count more toward your match.

1Tim Wendelboe
2The Barn
3Coffee Collective

Hold & drag to reorder · #1 = most important

+Add Roaster
3 roastersDone
Brewing Methods

Your gear, ranked. The one on top counts most in your Taste Match.

1V60
2AeroPress
3Chemex
4Moka Pot
Kalita WaveOrigamiSiphonBatch BrewEspressoFrench PressMoka Pot
3 selectedDone
Taste
Pick flavor notes, processing and origin.

Your notes and processing shape your Roast DNA.

Roasters
Choose your favorite roasters yourself, and rank them.

The ones you pin up top count more toward your match.

Brewing
Add the gear you brew with, and rank it.

The one on top counts most in your Taste Match.

Brew Lab · every morning

Generated recipes.Step-by-step brew guidance.

Finding the café is one half of Cupd. Brew Lab is the other.

IT KNOWS YOUR SETUP Comandante C40 · clicks V60 · paper, bleached Aeropress
‹Add coffee
SCANNED
Label read. Fields filled in.Reading the label · Spotting the roaster · Matching the flavor notes
Already in the cataloglogged by 12 · fill in what you left blankFill in
ROASTERThe Barn✓ IN CUPD
COFFEEColombia Huila
ORIGINColombia
VARIETYPink Bourbon
PROCESSWashed
ROASTED2026-08-12DAY 24
FLAVOR NOTES · UP TO 5
Stone fruitHoneyBlack teaFloral
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✕Your suggestion
Colombia Huila · The Barn · V60
WHY THIS RECIPEWashed Pink Bourbon at day 24 wants a touch finer than your last Huila. 24 clicks on your C40 and 93 °C keep the stone fruit bright without turning sharp.
DOSE15 g
WATER250 ml
TEMP93 °C
GRIND24 clicks
RATIO1:16.7
TOTAL3:00
FILTER PAPERV60 paper, bleached
STEPS
0:00Bloom with 45 g
0:35Pour to 150 g
1:15Pour to 250 g
2:00Swirl, let it draw down
Save to Stash
AdjustSuggest another
✕STEP PROGRESS
STEP 3 OF 5
0:28LEFT IN THIS STEP
Pour to 150 g
0:35 · 1:15 · 150 g
❙❙ Pause
Hold to finish early
AFTER THE BREW
How was this brew?
BalancedRan on time
You're rating the recipe, not the bean.
01 · SCAN

Point the camera at the bag.

The label becomes structured data, ready to save.

The StashPeak windowCatalog fill-inSpotted at a café
02 · RECIPE

Your personal barista, dialed in for you.

Scan the bag and you get a recipe for exactly those beans: your grinder's clicks, your filter paper, your taste. Rate the cup and the next recipe for this coffee comes back sharper. Not right? Ask for less acidic, stronger, or another method.

AI Brew AssistantGrind in your scaleYour filter paperSuggest another
03 · BREW

Brew along, then say how it tasted.

Guided Brew runs the recipe with you and calls each step when it's due. Rate the cup after, and the next recipe starts from there.

Ring timerDial-in LogPower Brewer
Brew guides · free in your browser

Six recipes.A timer for each.

You don't need the app to start. Pick a method, set the amount, and the timer calls each step when it's due.

All brew guides
Explore

The rest of the coffee week, one tab.

Cuppings and workshops near you, and the Ambassadors behind the recipes: real baristas, personally presented.

12SEP
Cupping: new harvest lotsKreuzberg · 0.6 km
LKJMAS+5
UPCOMING EVENTS Cuppings and workshops near you. Cuppings and workshops near you, with the roasters whose beans are on the table. So you don't miss one.
LK
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Lukas Meyer✓ @lukas.brews · Verified
AMBASSADOR · BERLIN
AMBASSADOR SPOTLIGHT Follow baristas whose recipes you like. Real recipes from real baristas, ready to save to your Stash.
Community

See a bag? Say a bag.

Cupd only knows what is really in the hopper because people walk in and say so. That work is worth something, so we pay it in points.

‹Five Elephant♡
The SetupWhat's on right now
MACHINE
La Marzocco Linea PBLa Marzocco
Confirmed
GRINDER
Mahlkönig EK43Mahlkönig
Confirmed
BREW BAR
V60Reported by a guest
Confirm
WATER TREATMENT
Not shared by the café yet.
＋ Add equipment
3 items · 2 confirmed. Equipment data is community-reported.
+3
Added V60 to the setupThanks for keeping it fresh
+3Spot the beans
+3Report the machine or grinder
+7Someone confirms your sighting

Birdwatching, basically. Except the rare one is a Gesha, it does not fly away, and you get to drink it.

Build your palate in ninety seconds.

Your first match is close by.

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Waitlist · iOS · Europe

Order ahead. We're still brewing.

Give us your name and save your spot. We'll call it out the moment Cupd lands in the App Store.

One email when we open, plus your TestFlight invite if you asked. No newsletter. See the privacy policy.

Run a café or roastery? Claim it or apply

How Taste Match works

Questions we actually get asked.

What is Cupd?

Cupd is a specialty coffee app made in Berlin. It shows you which cafés are pouring coffee that fits your taste right now, and turns the beans you buy into a recipe for your grinder. You can use it in your browser today at my.cupd.app, no account needed to look around. The iPhone app is in a private beta. Join the waitlist and you'll hear from us when it opens.

How does Taste Match work?

Taste Match scores every café against five weighted dimensions of your palate: favourite roasters (31 %), processing (21 %), brewing methods (17 %), origin (17 %) and flavour notes (14 %). Four of the five read the beans a café actually has in the hopper right now, so the score moves when the coffee does. Your drinks decide which of those beans count for you.

Does Cupd cost anything?

No. Cupd is free for everyone who drinks coffee. Cafés pay for Pro features, cafés and roasters for clearly labelled sponsored placements. The sponsored ones sit beside the organic list and never touch your Taste Match ranking.

How can I make my Taste Match better?

Report what you see: the bag on the shelf, the machine or the grinder behind the counter. Logged into the hopper in a few taps, and you get three points on the spot. Two more whenever you confirm someone else's find. Once a second guest reports the same bag, it starts counting toward the Taste Match and earns you seven more.

What is the Brew Lab?

Scan the bag on your counter and the Brew Lab turns it into a recipe tuned to your grinder and gear. Guided Brew then walks you through it step by step with a timer, so the good cup is repeatable instead of lucky. Want a taste now? The free brew guides on this site come with a step timer that runs in your browser.

What is specialty coffee?

Coffee that scores at least 80 of 100 points when trained tasters cup it under the rules of the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA), with no major defects in the green beans: traceable, processed with care and roasted so you can taste where it comes from. In a specialty café you taste fruit, florals or chocolate instead of plain bitterness, and the menu often names the roaster and the farm.

How is Cupd different from other coffee apps?

Most coffee apps list cafés and let people rate them. Cupd looks at what a café is actually pouring today, the beans in its hopper, and matches that to your palate. So instead of “good café, 4.6 stars” you get “this café fits you 92 % right now”, and the recipe for the beans you bought comes with it.

Where can I use Cupd?

Cupd runs in any browser at my.cupd.app, so on Android phones and laptops too, and on iPhone in a private beta. It starts in Berlin, where the specialty scene is dense enough for a match to be useful on the first day. The app already lists specialty cafés in Hamburg, Munich, Vienna, Zurich, Prague, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Amsterdam, London, Paris, Lisbon and Barcelona. Matches there get more precise as cafés claim their profiles and fill their hopper.

Questions or bugs? We read every message ourselves.

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