Comparison

The Great Tea App vs SteepPilot

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

SteepPilot

Features
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SteepPilot times every infusion of your tea session. Pick your tea and it sets the water temperature, the leaf for your vessel and how long each steep runs, a few seconds longer every round. Then it times them one by one. GONGFU OR WESTERN Gongfu mode is many short steeps in a small gaiwan or teapot. Set the first steep, the seconds added each round and the number of infusions. Western mode is one long steep in a large mug. EIGHT TEAS Green, black, oolong, white, sheng and shou pu-erh, herbal and matcha each come with their own water temperature and starting steep times. Pu-erh starts with a rinse. Temperatures in °C or °F. LEAF FOR YOUR VESSEL Set the size of your gaiwan, teapot or mug and SteepPilot suggests how much leaf to use, depending on the tea and the brewing method. ICED TEA One switch splits the water into hot water and ice. THE TIMER Each infusion gets its own countdown ring. A soft chime and a vibration tell you when to pour, and the screen stays on. Pause, skip, or let the infusions advance on their own. The timer keeps running when your iPhone locks, and a notification tells you when each steep is done. A running session survives the app being closed. TASTE AS YOU GO Between infusions, tap the flavors you taste and give the infusion stars. Pro adds a short written note for each infusion. At the end, the summary shows how many infusions you made, how long the session took and a rough caffeine estimate. TEA JOURNAL Save a session with its rating and tasting notes and read back through it later. The free version keeps three sessions. Pro keeps them all and exports your journal as a CSV file. MY TEAS Keep your loose leaf teas with origin, vendor and how many grams are left. Save a session with one of them and its leaf comes off what's left, and SteepPilot tells you when a tea is running low. Five teas are free, Pro has no limit. PRESETS Save a setup you like and start it again with one tap. ICLOUD SYNC Your journal, teas and presets reach your other Apple devices through your own iCloud. You can turn sync off in Settings. PRIVACY No account and no SteepPilot server. No analytics, no ads, no tracking. Notifications are scheduled on your iPhone and never pass through a server. FREE AND PRO Free: all eight teas, gongfu and western timers, iced tea, flavor tags and ratings, presets, three journal sessions and five teas. SteepPilot Pro keeps an unlimited journal and tea collection, adds a written note for each infusion and exports your journal as CSV. Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. The price is shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your iPhone's Settings under your name, then Subscriptions. Help: https://apps.alexgalkin.de/steeppilot/ Privacy policy: https://apps.alexgalkin.de/steeppilot/privacy/ Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

The Great Tea App4 screens
SteepPilot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SteepPilot at Free against The Great Tea App's $1.99. The Great Tea App's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). On 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

SteepPilot is free to download; The Great Tea App costs $1.99 up front. SteepPilot sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. The Great Tea App asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Great Tea App ships an update every 3 weeks, SteepPilot every 6 months. Both last shipped on November 7, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
The Great Tea App versus SteepPilot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Great Tea AppSteepPilot
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (17 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings17 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size157 MB9 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperBaglan DosmagambetovAlex Galkin

In-app purchases

None

The Great Tea App

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

SteepPilot

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is The Great Tea App free?
The Great Tea App costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is SteepPilot free?
SteepPilot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do The Great Tea App or SteepPilot have ads?
Neither The Great Tea App nor SteepPilot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Great Tea App or SteepPilot?
The Great Tea App ships an update every 3 weeks, and SteepPilot every 6 months. Most recently, The Great Tea App was updated on November 7, 2026 and SteepPilot on November 7, 2026.

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