Comparison

Tea Timer vs Teafinity

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

Head to head
About

Tea Timer

Easily brew the perfect cup of tea with this app. Select your favorite tea type, read its description, and start a custom timer. If your tea isn't listed, an adjustable timer is available.

Highlights
  • Select favorite tea
  • Read tea descriptions
  • Start/stop timer
  • Adjustable timer
  • List of common teas
  • List of herbal teas
Features
Read full description

One of the apps developed independently by the students of the IFTS course of the de Amicis institutes in Milan! - Choose your favorite tea. - Read its description. - Start or stop the timer. - Can't find your tea? Use the adjustable timer! The teas available are: Black White Green Earl Grey Darjeeling Rooibos Oolong Assam Chai Mate Choose your favorite herbal tea Chamomile Rosehip Lavender Valerian Verbena Peppermint

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
Read full description

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

Tea Timer4 screens
Teafinity4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tea Timer at none against Teafinity's 5. Tea Timer also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). Teafinity's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). On price, ads and device support 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. Tea Timer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Teafinity holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Teafinity has 33 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Tea Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Teafinity's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tea Timer ships an update every 2 months, Teafinity every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Tea Timer versus Teafinity: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTea TimerTeafinity
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (6 ratings)4.9 (33 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings633 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB93 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperISTITUTI EDMONDO DE AMICIS SRLPOCKET IMPLEMENTATION S.R.L.

Customer experience

Tea Timer

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%

Teafinity

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

In-app purchases

None

Tea Timer

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 Tea Timer free?
Tea Timer 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, Tea Timer or Teafinity?
Teafinity is rated higher. Tea Timer averages 4.7 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Teafinity averages 4.9 from 33 ratings.
Do Tea Timer or Teafinity have ads?
Neither Tea Timer nor Teafinity shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tea Timer or Teafinity?
Tea Timer ships an update every 2 months, and Teafinity every 2 weeks. Most recently, Tea Timer was updated on October 6, 2026 and Teafinity on October 7, 2026.

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