Best Overall Tea app!
This app does have issues, but I am more than happy to deal with them given what is offered with it:
🍵 Encyclopedia- very detailed with maps, season charts, photos, and guidelines
🍵 Tea timer- highly programmable with your chosen specifics; amount of tea, volume of water, steep time, temperature (C or F), and you can track your steeping pot or vessel to the point of a photographic representation of it.
🍵 Pantry function- for tracking your teas- very cool!
🍵 History tab- for all your past tea experiences
Track your tea type, time, temperature, amount, water, pot, and everything is searchable! I’m also impressed with the clear understanding of Chinese teas and style of tea making that is still lacking with the other apps in the the store.
It can be a little temperamental to use, but I have found those problems vanish now that I have been using it for a while (ex: I don’t use the camera icon in the app to try and take a photo because it will crash the app. I use my iPhone’s camera, then use the “Photo Library” selection to fetch the photo. Not a big deal).
This is a great app for learning and growing one’s knowledge with tea making! If you are a casual tea drinker, you may not care, but for those exploring the realm of tea, this app is great!
🍵 Encyclopedia- very detailed with maps, season charts, photos, and guidelines
🍵 Tea timer- highly programmable with your chosen specifics; amount of tea, volume of water, steep time, temperature (C or F), and you can track your steeping pot or vessel to the point of a photographic representation of it.
🍵 Pantry function- for tracking your teas- very cool!
🍵 History tab- for all your past tea experiences
Track your tea type, time, temperature, amount, water, pot, and everything is searchable! I’m also impressed with the clear understanding of Chinese teas and style of tea making that is still lacking with the other apps in the the store.
It can be a little temperamental to use, but I have found those problems vanish now that I have been using it for a while (ex: I don’t use the camera icon in the app to try and take a photo because it will crash the app. I use my iPhone’s camera, then use the “Photo Library” selection to fetch the photo. Not a big deal).
This is a great app for learning and growing one’s knowledge with tea making! If you are a casual tea drinker, you may not care, but for those exploring the realm of tea, this app is great!
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Nice app, could be better
The encyclopedia part of the app is what interested me, especially as it had a connected map feature which helps one visualize the geography and region of where the teas come from. I wish however the encyclopedia had some filters to search than a giant scroll down list. It could probably easily be added to help limit the searching to what someone may be looking for out of that list. Also the app could add other information like the terrior of the original growing region, and the main cultivars the plant originally came from. But overall this an amazing app for tea! Thank you to the creators
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Random Tea Picker
Nice place to have all your teas recorded in one app. Wish there was a randomized tea picker.
Where did the add a tea + sign go?
I added one tea and then the plus sign was gone???? How do I add more teas??
New to tea
I have recently gotten into learning about tea and I love the encyclopedia function and the ability to have and inventory of teas. I wish that the amount of tea in the inventory went down to 1 gram instead of starting at 10 since I have many sampler packs from teavivre. I still have to play with it some more but also wish that the brewing suggestions had specific gongfu instructions along with the western infusion method. Sometimes they are there but you really have to read into it. Also if you have F and C temperatures it would be nice to have ounces along with CC of water. Good app but think more could be done to justify 1.99 price.
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Best Tea App for Serious Tea Drinkers
I’ve been using this app for years so before I updated my iOS devices to iOS 11 I had to resurrect my old old iPod Touch 4 to devote to this app. Now that the app has been updated I can use it on a device with a functional battery. Also, the encyclopedia is once again accessible.
It has all the features that a serious tea drinker need. I can set up each variety of each tea I own e.g. an individual entry for each oolong. Then I can record the tea qty relative to the pot size and the app adjusts the qty for each pot i own. It remembers the time and temperature for each tea and then times each steep with the built in timer. I can adjust the brewing parameters for the next session which is helpful with new teas.
Sometimes the features are hard to find, like adjusting the quantity of tea when you change the pot size, but they’re there and worth looking for.
It has all the features that a serious tea drinker need. I can set up each variety of each tea I own e.g. an individual entry for each oolong. Then I can record the tea qty relative to the pot size and the app adjusts the qty for each pot i own. It remembers the time and temperature for each tea and then times each steep with the built in timer. I can adjust the brewing parameters for the next session which is helpful with new teas.
Sometimes the features are hard to find, like adjusting the quantity of tea when you change the pot size, but they’re there and worth looking for.
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Love it!
It allows me to read up on the different types of teas at the Asian grocery store. I have found so many teas I like because of this app.
I am so happy it has been updated. It works great now. THANK YOU!!!
I am so happy it has been updated. It works great now. THANK YOU!!!
Crashes every time I add notes
I purchased this as a tea journal. The interface is decent, but it crashes immediately after I type any character. I've reproduced this behavior many times without exception.
QUESTION
Hi there! I like this app but I just bought it really for the encyclopedia as well but the button is not appearing at the bottom of my screen?? Just wondering if anyone else had this issue??
I lovED This app .. But now...
WAS An excellent app before they decided to remove the tea encyclopedia. Worked for me great in a trip to Japan , but now without the feature its kind of useless
Very disappointed
No Encyclopedia included which is the reason I paid for it. Just a glorified tea timer. Don't waste your money.
Please fix!
Where did my encyclopedia go?!? Put it back.
Where's the encyclopedia?!?!
I bought this app for the encyclopedia function! I only have two functions, Tea and History! On the app store it shows an encyclopedia?! Plus when I go to app support it just reopens the app! Am I missing something?! Please help!!
Basically useless
This app is basically useless. It doesn't contain the tea encyclopedia that it says it does. I haven't been one that his drank a lot of exotic teas in the past and thought that this app would help me by giving me a background on the tea, the amount of tea I needed to use, the temperature that I needed to hear the water to, how long I needed to steep it, and how many times I could reuse the tea leaves, but it does none of that. You basically have to look it all up and enter all of the information in there. Like I said, it's basically useless!!
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Good concept but flawed
while it would be a good app to keep track of tea, it crashes regularly
Crash
Some nice features in this app. Being able to add my own notes is very important and this app offers that feature. However, every time I attempt to enter text the app crashes. So, for me this app is basically useless. Paid for junk.
Time for an update!
App worked brilliantly for years until I got an iPhone 6. MANY months later and it still crashes with almost every brew (especially if I try to attach photos or type brew notes). I'm afraid you have lost another loyal user. :(
So close to being finished…but not quite yet
I am new to tea and purchased this app to help me track preferences as I learn my way around tea. The app is nice but lacks two very basic features. The categories are limited. One may choose “Black” tea. But there are no categories such as Assam, Darjeeling, etc. Also there is no category or search feature. That will not be an issue for me but a true tea lover would find the app fill with a random list of teas. Defeats the purpose doesn’t it?
Lots of potential. I hope this is not an orphan app. Just a few more features would rejuvenate it and make it a perennial favorite.
Lots of potential. I hope this is not an orphan app. Just a few more features would rejuvenate it and make it a perennial favorite.
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Hmmmmm
For some reason,this app doesn't recognize any of my teas. Right now, Taylor's of harr. Scottish breakfast tea is not recognized. I would like to see what teas ARE in the database!
Crashes
I just purchased. When I tried to enter in my notes the app crashed. I thought maybe it was a fluke so I quit the app then reopened. Well, several times this happened. Asking for a refund. Wish it worked. I really enjoyed the rest of the app.
