Ikawa Home Roasters, including models like the Home Roaster 100, require the use of their mobile app to set roast profiles, fine tune setting, share recipes, and operate the device via Bluetooth. In May 2025, users received emails announcing the discontinuation of Ikawa Home products and their supporting applications. The app was set to reach its end of life on December 31, 2026, which would render the roaster unusable.[1]
Despite this, the Ikawa Home website continued to sell these products without disclosing the app's discontinuation or the limited lifespan on the main product page.The continued until the public announcement on May 21, 2025. This resulted in users who purchased the product during this period only a 18 month window of full functionality. [2]
Background
Ikawa Home produces precision coffee roasters (ranging from 100g to 1kg) designed for home users. These devices require the use of the official app via Bluetooth to create and edit roast profiles, monitor roasting, share recipes, and operate the machine. Without the app the core functionality of the device isn't accessible.
Discontinuation Of Service
In May 2025, Ikawa emailed existing users that it was discontinuing the entire Ikawa Home range. Announcing the Home website would transfer, final orders were accepted until July 2025, no further app updates would be released after September 30th, 2025 and the app would stop working on December 31st, 2026. Support and out of warranty re pairs end Jan 1st 2027.
Customers who bought the device during the final sales period received no warning on the product page about the obsolescence even when the company and current users where aware. The hardware was actively sold as a long term roasting device.
Ikawa's response
"Working to provide a solution for continued app-based operation" of the systems after January 1st 2027. They however provided no technical details, timeline or guarantee of a solutions still as of March 2026. [1]
Consumer response
Some users have attempted and are working toward reverse engineering the protocol however are hesitant due to Ikawa's ToS being very user hostile. [3]
References
- ↑ Home, Ikawa (2025-05-25). "Help! I wanted to buy an IKAWA Home roasting system". Ikawahome.
- ↑ Auctor (2025-05-21). "IKAWA Home shutting down - Sept. 2025".
- ↑ https://www.home-barista.com/roasting/ikawa-home-open-source-library-and-protocol-analysis-t92290.html