The Great Tea App vs Gongfu Tea Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Great Tea App
Discover the art of tea brewing with step-by-step video guides and practical instructions for various tea types and global brewing methods. Enhance your daily tea ritual with helpful hints, timers, and explanations of tea terminology.
- Step-by-step video brewing guides
- 11 tea types and 11 brewing methods
- Practical everyday brewing assistant
- Timers for single and multiple brews
- Tea terminology explanations
- Watch app integration
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Immerse yourself in the tea world, and make your daily tea time better! Learn how to make tea using the Chinese, Japanese, and European brewing methods. Here you have a readily available step-by-step guide to brewing new teas and a handy assistant for making your daily tea. The app contains: - A specially created step-by-step video guide for visual learning - 11 tea types and 11 brewing methods from different countries - A practical guide for everyday brewing - Timers for single brewing and multiple brews - Helpful hints and explanations of the main tea-related terms - Charming things and lots of love for tea! Types of tea: - Green - Black - White - Yellow - Pu'er - Oolong - Sencha - Matcha - Herbal teas (tisanes) Brewing methods: Chinese: - Gaiwan - Gong-fu brewer - Small teapot - Mug Japanese: - Matcha - Kyusu European: - A regular teapot - Teapot with a mesh filter - Two teapots - French press Other - The Russian style P.S. A watch app is also included. P.P.S. Questions and support: tea@mobicreators.com
Gongfu Tea Timer
Master traditional Chinese tea ceremonies with precise steep timing for various tea types. This app offers pre-configured settings and custom profiles to ensure perfect results for every brew, including Lock Screen and Dynamic Island notifications.
- Pre-configured timing for 5 tea types
- Multiple rounds with adjusted steep times
- Rinse step support
- Custom tea profile creation
- Lock Screen timer
- Dynamic Island support
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Master the art of gongfu tea brewing with precise timing for every steep. Gongfu Tea Timer guides you through the traditional Chinese tea ceremony with optimized steep times for different tea types. Whether you're brewing delicate green tea or robust pu-erh, get perfect results every time. FEATURES: • Pre-configured timing for 5 tea types: Green, Black, Oolong, White, and Pu-erh • Multiple rounds with automatically adjusted steep times • Rinse step for teas that benefit from it • Additional steep generation for extended sessions • Create and save custom tea profiles LIVE ACTIVITIES: • See your timer on the Lock Screen • Dynamic Island support for iPhone 14 Pro and newer • Get alerts when each round completes without opening the app DESIGNED FOR GONGFU: Unlike generic kitchen timers, this app understands gongfu brewing. Each tea type has carefully calibrated times that increase with each steep, following traditional gongfu methodology. Perfect for tea enthusiasts who want consistent, delicious results from their gongfu sessions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Gongfu Tea Timer at Free against The Great Tea App's $1.99. Gongfu Tea Timer also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). The Great Tea App's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.2). On ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Gongfu Tea Timer is free to download; The Great Tea App costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Gongfu Tea Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 17 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of The Great Tea App's written reviews are positive against 100% of Gongfu Tea Timer's.
The Great Tea App ships an update every 3 weeks, Gongfu Tea Timer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | The Great Tea App | Gongfu Tea Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (17 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 157 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Baglan Dosmagambetov | RAYMOND LIU LUO |
Customer experience
The Great Tea App
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In-app purchases
The Great Tea App
No in-app purchases
Gongfu Tea Timer
No in-app purchases
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