Cheesy Scribe is a cheese tasting journal for your phone, modelled on the 33Books tasting notebook. You taste a cheese, you write it down, and later you can actually find it again. Paper is lovely right up until you want the one with the washed rind you liked a few months back.
What it does
- One note per cheese: maker, style, milk, texture, rind, price, a star rating and a one-line verdict
- A 16-note flavor wheel for scoring what you taste, or a plain list if wheels aren't your thing; it's the same data either way
- A bundled library of 27 cheese styles, each with its typical profile and the tastings you've logged against it
- Stats on what you've tasted, from your top flavors to how your milk types break down
- A glossary of tasting terms, for when the label says "bloomy" and you'd like to know what it means
- Search across everything you've written
- Local-first: it works without signing in. An optional account (Google or email) backs your notes up and syncs them between phones, and you can delete it from the app or from this website
Where it stands
Version 0.3.0 is on Google Play in closed testing with invited testers. The public release lands on Google Play and the App Store on the same day, and the iPhone app is in the works. For now it runs on Android, and it's open source under Apache-2.0.