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Free espresso tools
Twenty-six small tools for pulling better espresso at home. Each one does exactly one job — time a shot, price a setup, fix a sour shot — and each one runs entirely in your browser. No signup, no email wall, no download. Built by someone learning espresso the hard way, for people doing the same.
Espresso Savings Calculator
Your café habit vs. a home setup: monthly savings, payback, 1- and 3-year totals.
Run the numbers →Machine Finder Quiz
Five questions, one ranked shortlist matched to budget, space, and milk habits.
Take the quiz →Shot Troubleshooter
Pick what's wrong — sour, bitter, too fast, too slow, no crema — get the fix.
Diagnose my shot →Setup Cost Builder
Tick the boxes for your dream setup and watch the total update live.
Build my setup →Espresso Shot Timer
Time your shot to the 25–30 second target zone, with phase indicators.
Start timing →Diagnose My Shot Quiz
Four questions about taste, flow, crema, and beans — get the likely cause and fix.
Diagnose my shot →Espresso Brew Ratio Calculator
Dose in, ratio out — ristretto 1:1, normale 1:2, lungo 1:3, with target yield and time.
Calculate my ratio →Espresso Water Recipe Mixer
Pick a mineral profile — get exact baking soda + epsom salt per liter.
Mix my water →Home vs Café Espresso Cost Calculator
Per-drink home vs. café math, with yearly savings and break-even.
Compare costs →Grinder Settings Converter
Find your grinder's espresso starting point — Encore ESP, Eureka Mignon, DF54, 1Zpresso, more.
Find your setting →Milk Drink Builder
Pick a drink and shot count — get dose, milk, temperature, and foam.
Build your drink →Caffeine Calculator
Set your shot count — get the milligrams, honestly.
Check your caffeine →Basket Dose Estimator
How many grams belong in your portafilter? Pick your basket size and type.
Estimate your dose →Brew Temperature Guide
The right water temperature for your roast, with no-PID workarounds.
Get your temp →Which Drink Should You Make?
Four quick questions, one honest drink recommendation.
Take the quiz →Descaling & Maintenance Scheduler
Water hardness + shots per day = your descaling schedule, with reminders.
Schedule maintenance →Bean Freshness Tracker
Log the roast date — see days rested, peak window, and when the bag fades.
Track your beans →Pre-Infusion Calculator
Pick machine and roast — get a suggested pre-infusion time and approach.
Calculate pre-infusion →Milk Steaming Timer
A phased phone timer for silky microfoam: stretch, texture, pour.
Start steaming →Extraction Yield Estimator
Dose, yield, and taste in — extraction yield out, with the 18–22% target band.
Estimate extraction →Shot Journal
Log dose, yield, time, grind, and taste — spot your dial-in pattern. Saves on your device.
Start journaling →Espresso Flavor Wheel
Click what you taste — get the one dial-in tweak that brings out more of it.
Spin the wheel →Puck Prep Checklist
The 8-step pre-shot routine that kills channeling, with a built-in shot timer.
Run the routine →Milk Frothing Guide
Stretch vs. swirl technique, per-drink texture targets, and frothing timers.
Froth it right →Dial-In Coach
New beans? Taste, change one thing, repeat — a guided 3-shot workflow to sweet espresso.
Dial it in →Shot Types Guide
Ristretto vs. normale vs. lungo — pick a style and see the exact yield target for your dose.
Pick your shot →Warm-Up Timer
Pick your machine type, get a warm-up countdown with a step-by-step checklist.
Warm it up →Salami Shot Taster
Split one shot into 5 cups and taste sour → sweet → bitter in order, with a live swap timer.
Taste in slices →No-Scale Yield Estimator
No scale yet? Turn your target yield into a shot-glass fill line, in ml and spoon counts.
Estimate by eye →Milk Pitcher Sizer
Pick your drink, get the right pitcher size and the fill line before the foam grows and overflows it.
Size my pitcher →Bean Bag Planner
Bag size, dose, and shots per day — get days per bag, real cost per shot, and when to reorder before beans fade.
Plan my bag →Iced Espresso Planner
Drink, cup size, and shot count — get the ice, milk or water, and melt-dilution math so the last sip still tastes like espresso.
Plan my iced drink →Single-Dose Freezer Planner
Bag size, dose, and shots per day — get doses per bag, tubes needed, and the keep-out vs. freeze split.
Plan my freezer doses →Steamed Milk Waste Calculator
What you pour vs. what lands in the cup — get waste per drink, cost per month and year, and the tighter pour target.
Count my milk waste →Half-Caf Blend Calculator
Dose plus the caffeine you actually want — get the exact grams of regular and decaf beans to blend for every shot.
Blend my shot →Grinder Purge Calculator
Retention, purges per day, dose and bag price — get grams wasted per day, shots wasted per month, and cost per year.
Count my purge waste →Espresso Machine Electricity Cost Calculator
Wattage, hours on per day, heater duty and your kWh price — get energy per day, cost per month and year, and cents per shot.
Count my running cost →Caffeine Curfew Calculator
Enter your bedtime, find your last safe espresso.
Find your curfew →How the tools fit together
A good first-timer path: take the machine finder quiz to shortlist machines, price your full setup with the cost builder, sanity-check the spend with the savings calculator — then when your gear arrives, the shot troubleshooter has your back for the first tricky weeks. Day to day, the shot timer, brew ratio calculator, and diagnose-my-shot quiz keep your shots on track, the water mixer levels up your water, and home vs café cost reminds you why it was all worth it.
The paid shortcut — totally optional
Want the whole process explained with pictures?
These tools are free, and they always will be. If you'd also like the full walkthrough — your first shot from start to finish, a flowchart for when shots taste off, milk basics, and a cheat sheet for the fridge — that's the 15-page Quick-Start Guide. It's $6, it downloads instantly, and there's nothing else to buy afterward.