Comparison

Sencha | Tea vs Teafinity

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sencha | Tea

This app helps you brew the perfect cup of Japanese green tea with a scientifically calibrated timer. It also offers high-quality tea sourced directly from Japanese producers, with options for monthly subscription plans and tracking your tea consumption.

Highlights
  • Scientifically calibrated steeping timer
  • Order top-quality Japanese green tea
  • Monthly tea subscription plans
  • Track tea streaks and history
  • Integrates with Apple Health
  • Custom tea support
  • Apple Watch app
Features
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A beautiful steeping timer + high-quality Japanese green tea. + Brew the perfect cup with our scientifically calibrated steeping timer. + Order top-quality Japanese tea directly to your door. + Subscribe to a monthly tea plan. + Cultivate a healthy lifestyle with tea. + Our tea is made by tea producers of over 300 years. Welcome to Sencha. Our purpose is to help you have wonderful experiences with tea. We provide authentic tea sourced from Japan alongside in-depth instruction for brewing delicious cups of tea. We believe that tea is a means to connect with the present moment, and we encourage a lifestyle of contemplative tea drinking. + Steeping Timer Our steeping timer uses your device's barometer, Newton's Law of Cooling, and your personal preferences to first cool freshly boiled water to the ideal temperature, then ensure that the tea steeps for the ideal duration. Simply choose a tea, tap begin, and follow the instructions. A perfect cup awaits you. + Top-grade Japanese Tea We source our sencha, matcha, gyokuro, hojicha, and genmaicha from Japanese tea producers of over 300 years and more than 14 generations. One century ago, this tea was served to the emperor of Japan and declared one of Japan's best products. All of our tea is high-quality, authentic, and crafted with love. + Monthly Tea Plans We recommend drinking tea every day, and our monthly tea plans make forming a healthy tea habit easy and natural. Save 10% automatically and get free shipping with our monthly plans. Easy to cancel, upgrade, downgrade, or skip a month. + Tea Streaks + Tea History Track your tea drinking in-app with your own current and best tea streaks, history charts, and nutritional tracking. + Nutritional + Mindful Minutes Tracking Sencha integrates with Apple's Health app, making it easy to track your nutritional intake from tea and contribute to Mindful Minutes. Learn more at www.sencha.app/healthkit. + Support for Custom Teas Add a custom tea including color, name, steeping temperature, and steep duration. Custom teas support multiple steepings and are available across devices, including Apple Watch. + Cloud Sync Sync tea streaks, tea history, and order history across devices automatically. + Apple Watch Experience Brew the perfect cup directly from your wrist. + Apple Pay Easily checkout with Apple Pay, and tea will arrive at your door. Apple Pay is available for placing both single orders and monthly tea plans. Thank you for drinking tea with Sencha. We're thrilled to be serving you in your journey with tea! - The Team at Sencha --- Learn more about our terms and conditions: https://sencha.app/privacy-terms

About

Teafinity

This app helps you brew the perfect cup of tea every time. Identify teas with your camera, use smart timers, and explore detailed guides for over 170 varieties. Discover new favorites and build your personal tea collection.

Highlights
  • AI-powered tea recognition via camera
  • Smart brewing timers with notifications
  • 170+ comprehensive tea guides
  • Personalized tea recommendations
  • Build and track personal tea collection
  • Custom brewing profiles
Features
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Guessing ruins good leaf. Teafinity is a tea timer with the numbers already in it. Sencha at 175F, 90 seconds. English Breakfast at 212F, 4 minutes. The timer and 30 teas are free. The full library and AI photo identification are the paid part. FREE, AND NO ACCOUNT 30 teas with the brewing data already entered: water temperature in F and C, steep time, and how much leaf to how much water. English Breakfast, Earl Grey, Darjeeling, Sencha, Dragon Well, Tie Guan Yin, Silver Needle, Shou Pu-erh, Chamomile, Rooibos and 19 more. Matcha is in the free set too, with its water temperature and leaf-to-water ratio. Black, green, white, oolong, pu-erh and herbal are all in the free set. The Western brewing timer. Pick a tea, tap once, put the phone down. The countdown runs on the Lock Screen as a Live Activity, so you can check it without opening anything, and, with notifications allowed, an alert tells you when the steep is done. On iOS 26 and later, if you allow it, the finish alert can sound through a silenced phone. Favorites and a collection that fills in as you brew. A tea insight every day. Recommendations that follow what you actually drink. No account, no email address, no ads. The 30 teas are not a trial countdown. They stay free. PREMIUM, WHICH IS A SUBSCRIPTION The whole library. All 176 teas in the core collection, plus seasonal teas that rotate through the year. AI photo identification. Point the camera at loose leaf or a packet and Teafinity identifies the tea, then opens the brewing data for it. If it cannot place one, you can request it. Gongfu timers across the whole library. Every infusion gets its own clock and its own length, so a gongfu tea that wants 30 seconds, then 40, then 50 is not one flat countdown repeated five times. Tea requests. Ask for a tea the library does not have yet. New teas and guides land every month. WHO IT IS FOR People who buy tea worth brewing properly and are tired of digging the numbers out of a blog post halfway through a steep. SUBSCRIPTION DETAILS Premium is a yearly plan or a weekly plan. New subscribers start the yearly plan with a 7-day free trial. The App Store shows the price in your own currency before anything is charged. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage the subscription and turn off auto-renew in your Apple Account settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Sencha | Tea4 screens
Teafinity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sencha | Tea at none against Teafinity's 5. Sencha | Tea also leads on device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). Teafinity's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Teafinity sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. Sencha | Tea asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Teafinity holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 33 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Sencha | Tea's written reviews are positive against 100% of Teafinity's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sencha | Tea ships an update every 3 weeks, Teafinity every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Sencha | Tea versus Teafinity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSencha | TeaTeafinity
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26 ratings)4.9 (33 ratings) — better
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2633 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB93 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperInsight Design LCPOCKET IMPLEMENTATION S.R.L.

Customer experience

Sencha | Tea

All ratings26 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%

Teafinity

All ratings33 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Sencha | Tea

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Teafinity

Subscriptions4
  • Teafinity Premium Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Teafinity Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
  • Teafinity Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Teafinity Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Teafinity Premium Forever$99.99

Questions

Is Sencha | Tea free?
Sencha | Tea is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Teafinity free?
Teafinity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sencha | Tea or Teafinity?
Teafinity is rated higher. Sencha | Tea averages 4.7 out of 5 from 26 ratings, while Teafinity averages 4.9 from 33 ratings.
Do Sencha | Tea or Teafinity have ads?
Neither Sencha | Tea nor Teafinity shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sencha | Tea or Teafinity?
Sencha | Tea ships an update every 3 weeks, and Teafinity every 2 weeks. Most recently, Sencha | Tea was updated on October 3, 2026 and Teafinity on October 7, 2026.

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