# TeaBuddy: Gongfu Tea Journal — A cozy tea journal and timer > A cozy tea journal and timer (iPhone/iPad app by Matthew Brown.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/teabuddy-gongfu-tea-journal/id6811475098 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Matthew Brown](https://appshunter.io/developer/6803316631) - Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle - Price: $4.99 - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 4 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-16 - Data updated: 2026-10-29 ## What is TeaBuddy? TeaBuddy is a tea journal built around how tea people actually brew. Most apps assume one mug and one steep. Tea rarely works that way. A good session is a rinse, a first steep that hints, a third that opens up, and a seventh that finally goes watery. TeaBuddy logs all of it, one quick note per infusion, while the timer keeps count. Start an entry and the facts fill themselves in. Type Jin Jun Mei and you get the tea type, the translation, the origin, and a sensible steep schedule. From there everything bends to you: nudge the seconds, set your water temperature, pick gongfu, western, or grandpa style. The journal records what you actually did, not what a chart said to do. The timer rings even when your phone is locked, so you can walk away from the kettle without counting in your head. What else is inside: • Tasting notes you choose, never chosen for you. Tap suggested words or write your own. • Star ratings that follow your most recent verdict, because palates change. • Photos with washi tape corners: the packet on the shelf, the tray shots on the page. • A shelf of tall cards showing each tea's bag, rating, and session count. • A calendar where every day wears the color of what you brewed. • Search by flavor. Find that honeydew white from Fujian in seconds. • Vendor and price on each tea, with cost per session worked out for you. • One tap CSV export, ready for a spreadsheet, so you can chart your own palate over a year. • A clay lucky cat that glistens with this month's pours and darkens over a lifetime of them, like a real tea pet. Private by design. No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no analytics. Your journal lives on your device and in your own iCloud, and it leaves only when you export it yourself. Made for the person whose paper tea journal has stains on every page. Keep the scrapbook heart. Add the memory. ## Is TeaBuddy safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess TeaBuddy. ## Is TeaBuddy legit? TeaBuddy: Gongfu Tea Journal appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for TeaBuddy is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 3 releases) ### 1.2 — 2026-10-29 Know what's left. Each tea now counts down as you brew, so the shelf can tell you there's about 12 g of that oolong left, or three more sessions. When a packet's done, tap I'm out and it moves to a Finished shelf with its history intact. Bought more? One tap and the count starts over. Brew it again. Any past session, or any tea's page, now has a Brew again button that starts a new entry the way you made it last time: same style, same water, same leaf, same steep times. Watch the steep from the Lock Screen. The countdown now lives on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you can walk away from the kettle and still see how long is left. Find any tea. Sort the shelf by name, rating, last brewed, or what's running low, and filter it by type or by a tasting word. Log yesterday's tea. Pick when a session happened, when you write it or after, and it lands on the right day. ### 1.1 — 2026-10-20 Share a page. Every session now has a share button that turns it into a journal page: the tea, the packet, every steep with your note, your tasting words, and up to three of your photos, taped on. Post it, text it, keep it. Ready for iPhone Duo. TeaBuddy opens up on the inner display and tucks into the outer one, with no fuss either way. A small fix for a timer caption that liked to break words in half. ### 1.0 — 2026-10-17 No release notes. ## More apps by Matthew Brown - [CoffeeBuddy: Brew Journal](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/coffeebuddy-brew-journal/id6803316629) - [T minus 90](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/t-minus-90/id6811485723) - [TransformationBuddy](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/transformationbuddy/id6811496617) All apps by Matthew Brown: https://appshunter.io/developer/6803316631 ## Related topics [spill the tea with friends](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/spill-the-tea-with-friends) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-10-29.*