Quantify CVA
Quantify CVA is a mobile app for iOS and Android that puts the Coffee Value Assessment forms — the Specialty Coffee Association’s current system for evaluating coffee — on a phone or tablet, and lets a whole cupping table fill them in together. It is one of exactly two platforms the SCA named when it announced, on 13 July 2026, that CVA “and its tools are now available to use in the digital space”; the other is TheBeanGeek.1
It is a piece of software, not a coffee business. Nothing is grown, bought, roasted or sold here. Scores that appear inside it belong to the coffees being tasted, not to the app — so unlike a Best of Panama lot or a Cup of Excellence winner, there are no prices, altitudes or auction results attached to Quantify CVA itself.
What the SCA says it does
The announcement credits the app to Dongjun Oh and the Quantify CVA team, and describes three things it does that a paper form cannot:1
| Several people, one table | ”real-time synchronization of multi-evaluator results” — everyone cupping the same flight sees the table fill in as it happens |
| Conversion Mode | ”transforms digital assessments into official SCA CVA PDF forms”, so the output is the SCA’s own paperwork rather than a private export |
| Eight languages | English, Korean, French, Portuguese, Spanish, and Chinese in both Simplified and Traditional1 |
The SCA also states that the app arrived after “a large-scale testing phase involving more than 18,000 evaluation records across 1,100 active evaluators” — a figure worth holding onto, because it is the SCA vouching for the volume, not the developer.1
The official download hub is a link tree at linktr.ee/cva_app, which the SCA points to directly.1 That hub lists the app under a different name in each store — “CVA: Coffee Value Assessment App” on Apple’s App Store and “CVA: Coffee Value Assessment” on Google Play — plus tutorial videos for three modes of use: Creation Mode (setting up a session), Assessment Mode (tasting and scoring) and Administrator Mode (running the session and its results).2
How it differs from TheBeanGeek
The two platforms the SCA named are not competing at the same thing, and the split is easy to see:
| Quantify CVA | TheBeanGeek | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | iOS and Android app1 | Web browser1 |
| Built around | a group cupping the same table, syncing live1 | one person filling in a form, no account needed1 |
| Output | official SCA CVA PDF forms1 | an assessment saved to an optional free account1 |
In plain terms: TheBeanGeek removes the excuse not to try CVA at all, and Quantify CVA is aimed at the room where a dozen people are already cupping together — a calibration session, a training course, a competition table, a Q Grader exam room.
That matters because CVA is more paperwork than the single cupping form it replaced. Under the old system a table of tasters each scribbled one number per coffee and someone averaged them by hand. CVA asks for several separate assessments per coffee, and averaging that across ten people on paper is genuinely painful. Software collecting it live is less a convenience than the thing that makes group CVA practical at all. See Coffee scoring for the single-number system CVA is moving away from.
To verify — who owns and publishes the app
The company behind the app appears only in app-store metadata, and the name is spelled two different ways. The App Store listing reached through the official link tree gives the seller as “BP&Solution Co.Ltd”.2 The research behind this note reports the Google Play developer field as (주)비피앤솔루션, transliterated on that listing as BPN Solution Co., Ltd., with a support address at the Busan International Finance Center in Nam-gu, Busan, South Korea.3 Both readings render the same Korean name (비피앤 ≈ “BP-and”), so this is almost certainly one company under two romanisations — but the Google Play page could not be read here (the store returns only navigation to automated readers), and no corporate registry entry or SCA document was found that states the ownership. The SCA names Dongjun Oh and “the Quantify CVA team” and never mentions a company at all.1 Treat the company name, and the relationship between it and Dongjun Oh, as unconfirmed.
To verify — which CVA forms it covers, and what it costs
For TheBeanGeek the SCA spells out both the forms covered (Affective, Descriptive and Combined) and the price (free, no account). For Quantify CVA it says neither.1 Whether the app covers all three in-cup forms, whether it touches the physical and extrinsic assessments that the browser tool leaves alone, and whether any part of it is paid, are all undocumented in the sources consulted here. Nothing on this page should be read as saying the app is free.
To verify — how it calculates a score
The app is presented as a CVA platform, so it presumably implements the affective calculation set out in the SCA’s standard: eight attributes each rated 1–9 by preference, averaged, divided by 9 and multiplied by 100, then reduced for non-uniform cups, taints and faults. That formula is quoted here from a third-party online calculator citing SCA Standard 104-2024, not from the app and not from the SCA.4 No documentation of the app’s internal scoring was found. The standard’s own numbering and adoption date are separately flagged in Coffee Value Assessment.
To verify — when the app actually launched
13 July 2026 is the date the SCA announced the two platforms, which is not the same as the date either one launched.1 The app plainly predates the announcement — the SCA describes a completed testing phase of 18,000-plus records behind it — and the official link tree carries a registration link for a December CVA course, but no year is attached.12 No launch date for Quantify CVA was found in any source.
Why the SCA naming it matters
A standards body pointing at two specific pieces of third-party software is a bigger move than it looks. The SCA writes the CVA standards but does not sell the tools, so its choice of where to send evaluators effectively decides what most CVA data will be typed into — and therefore what shape that data ends up in. Being one of two named platforms is the single most load-bearing fact about Quantify CVA; strip it away and it is an app store listing.
The honest caveat is the same one that applies to TheBeanGeek: hosting the form is not owning the scale. The attributes, the 1–9 preference ratings and the standards all belong to the SCA. What these platforms supply is the input boxes and, in Quantify CVA’s case, the plumbing that lets ten people fill them in at once.
Related
- Coffee Value Assessment — the SCA framework whose forms this app implements
- TheBeanGeek — the other digital CVA platform the SCA named in the same announcement
- Specialty Coffee Association — the body that wrote the standards and made the announcement
- Cupping · Coffee scoring · Coffee flavor wheel — the evaluation practice and vocabulary the forms sit inside
- Q Grader · Coffee Quality Institute — the licensing world where group calibration sessions happen
- Green coffee grading — the physical side of assessment that the in-cup tooling leaves alone
- Specialty coffee · Coffee media — the wider layer that explains and measures coffee rather than selling it
Official links
- Official links — Quantify CVA (linktr.ee/cva_app, the hub the SCA points to)
- Official listing — Quantify CVA on Google Play
Footnotes
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SCA — The Coffee Value Assessment is Now Available on Two New Digital Platforms: TheBeanGeek and Quantify CVA ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15
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Quantify CVA — Google Play listing — the store returned only navigation markup on fetch here; developer and contact details cited via the research report ↩
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Coffee Value Assessment (CVA) Calculator — third-party calculator citing SCA Standard 104-2024; not an SCA document ↩