Your espresso machine is capable of greatness.Phil knows how to get it out.

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simple, helpful advice every morning

6:00 AM

BeansPullRate

Beans. Pull. Rate. Repeat.

Espresso is a Groundhog Day: the same morning, over and over, until it’s right. Phil folds every loop into the next day’s numbers, so each 6 AM starts a little closer to perfect.

okay campers, rise and grind.

Phil does the homework before you touch the grinder.

Phil is a groundhog. He also happens to be very good at espresso. He studies your machine, your grinder, your beans and today’s weather — then hands you exact numbers for the next shot. You pull, you rate, he adjusts.

Phil saysGrind one step finer, hold dosejust now

Dose

0.0g

Grind

Yield

Time

Why — the last shot ran 26 s and tasted sour with fruit on top: classic slight under-extraction for a light natural. A finer grind should stretch the pull to about 28 s.

he really does explain himself. every time.

He checks the weather

Humidity changes how coffee flows. Phil pulls local conditions for every suggestion — on a muggy morning he already knows your shot will run fast.

He knows your gear and your history

Your machine, your grinder, your last pulls on this exact bag — weighted with the latest shot counting most. Grind moves in small, grinder-relative steps, never wild swings.

He tracks your beans

Point the camera at the bag and Phil reads the roast date, origin and process. He knows beans peak 5–21 days off roast, when they're still degassing, and when they've gone flat.

The shot timer at 20.2 seconds with a target of 28 seconds

The Dial step with the camera-style mode dial set to Auto and Phil's numbers for this shot

Feels like an analogue camera, not a spreadsheet.

A tick-marked mode dial with a satisfying clunk. Turn it to A and Phil sets every number; take over dose, grind or everything whenever you like. A big shot timer buzzes at your target, and rating is two taps of taste chips.

Auto

Dose

Grind

Manual

sour? bitter? just tap it. Phil will do the maths.

The Pheed: a post by Maya Chen sharing her third pull on an Ethiopia Guji with four stars

Phil's pheed, for friend's of Phil only.

Share a shot the moment you rate it — the bag is the hero, with your numbers, stars and taste right on the card. Ask questions near you (“anyone dialled in this roaster’s new natural?”), like, comment, done.

Built around the bagEvery post says which beans, how old, and which pull it was — the context that actually helps.
Local by defaultSee shots and questions from your city, your country or everywhere. Only your suburb is ever shared, never coordinates.
Phil drops byHe leaves the occasional comment himself — here and there, when he has something useful to say.

History in calendar view with rating dots and new-beans markers on each day

Every pull, remembered. Every bag, accounted for.

A timeline of your shots with rating dots from red to green, a calendar of your streaks, and bean purchases marked the day they happened. Search by roaster, origin or that note you left at 6 am.

the green dots cluster around day 9. told you.

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Widgets & Lock Screen

Phil's next numbers on your Home Screen, your last shot's stars on the Lock Screen, one-tap logging from Control Center.

Works offline

No signal? A smaller Phil runs entirely on your iPhone with Apple's on-device models — advice still arrives, badged “Phil, on-device”.

Scan the bag

Front and back. Phil OCRs the roast date, origin and process so you never type a bean name at 6 am.

Siri, Shortcuts & Health

“Ask Phil in Groundhog.” Log shots by voice, and send your caffeine to Apple Health if you dare to know.