About xBloom
xBloom is a San Francisco coffee-tech company founded in 2021 by Richard Xu and Rui Zhou, mechanical engineers who spent years as product designers at Apple before turning to coffee. Its flagship, the xBloom Studio, is an all-in-one pour-over machine that pairs a conical burr grinder, a precision scale, and a real cone dripper so a cup follows the same grind, weigh, and pour sequence a barista uses by hand rather than dropping water through a fixed basket.
Coverage from outlets including TechCrunch, Tom's Guide, and CoffeeGeek has singled out the Studio for reproducing hand-poured quality with minimal user input; CoffeeGeek rated it 5 out of 5. Beyond the machine, xBloom sells its own coffee capsules sourced from independent third-wave roasters and a companion Omni Tea Brewer, building a stocked ecosystem around the hardware rather than leaving buyers to source grounds elsewhere.
Brand website: xbloom.com
What xBloom makes
xBloom's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
xBloom Studio
All-in-one pour-over machine with a built-in conical burr grinder, 0.1g precision scale, and cone dripper — featured on Brew Gazette
xBloom Original
The brand's earlier compostable-capsule machine, automating single-serve brews to a roaster's own specification
xPods coffee capsules
Pre-portioned, compostable capsules filled with beans from independent third-wave roasters
Omni Tea Brewer
Companion brewer for loose-leaf tea with manual, guided, or automatic modes
Coffee & tea subscription
Bi-weekly curated boxes of rotating coffee and tea selections
Why we recognized xBloom
The Brew Gazette Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our hands-on category reviews. xBloom earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: bought, brewed with daily, and judged on what lands in the cup.
xBloom products we rated highly
xBloom Studio Coffee Machine with Built-In Grinder and Scale
In our testing, the Studio grinds, weighs, and brews in one sequence, removing the inconsistent grind and eyeballed dose that undercut most home pour-over. Water lands in a real cone dripper rather than a flat basket, with grind size, water temperature, and flow rate adjustable live on physical knobs, and it carried the highest rating in our roundup at 4.5 across the machines we reviewed.
Read the 10 Best Automatic Pour-Over Coffee Makers of 2026 guide →What earned xBloom the recognition
- Carried the highest rating of any machine in our 10-model pour-over roundup, at 4.5.
- Integrates a conical burr grinder and a 0.1g precision scale with the brewer, addressing the two most common home pour-over errors: inconsistent grind and an eyeballed dose.
- Pours through a real cone dripper with grind size, water temperature, and flow rate adjustable on physical knobs, a level of live control matched by very few automatic brewers we tested.
- Offers three selectable automation levels, Autopilot, Copilot, and Free Solo, so the same machine suits a hands-off routine or full manual control in one household.
- App-based recipes save and sync instantly, making a dialled-in cup repeatable rather than a one-off result.