MyTeaPal vs Teafinity

Join 34,000+ tea drinkers in 100+ countries — MyTeaPal is the all-in-one home for how you brew, log, and share tea. Available in 26 languages. MyTeaPal is the ultimate companion for tea drinkers, an all-in-one app with timer, tracker, journal, and community functions. WHAT YOU CAN DO: * Brew tea with mindfulness and precision for each infusion using a timer or stopwatch * Organize all your teas, teawares, vendors, ingredients, and brew logs in just one place * Log your tasting notes and brew statistics by infusion to create your personal tea journal * Connect with tea friends worldwide — join Daily Tea, share tasting notes, and build your tea community EVERYTHING INSIDE: * MyTeaPal Club: 12 curated teas (160–200g) sourced directly from producers across China each quarter, with free worldwide shipping and weekly virtual tastings * Daily Tea: See what tea people around the world are tasting today, and share yours * Personalize Collections: Add custom images and detailed info for teas and teawares * Tea Encyclopedia: Explore and learn about different styles and link with your teas * Timer and Stopwatch: Follow a preset time or simply brew with intuition * Quantity Tracker: Catalogue inventory and auto-subtract as you drink * Share: Send information about teas, teawares, or logs to your friends * Visualize Stats: See your logs in a calendar and teas in a pie chart * Flavor Dictionary: Choose from 100+ tags or add your own * Tea Rating: Rank your teas on a 5-point scale (half stars included!) * Tea Randomizer: Having trouble picking what to drink? Let our randomizer help * Daily Reminder: Enable daily notifications to form a mindful tea drinking routine * Data Syncing: Securely save all your data and images across devices and platforms * Multiple Units: Water Volume (ml/fl oz), Temperature (°C/°F), Weight (g/tsp/bag/ball) WHY I BUILT MYTEAPAL: Tea has been part of my life for over ten years. In 2016, I started studying Chinese tea to reconnect with my roots, and in 2017 I founded CommuniTEA, Duke University's tea club — built on a simple idea: tea brings people together. I always wished there were a way to record my tea journey: every tea I tasted, teaware I collected, brewing method I used, and feeling I sensed. I tried paperback journals and other tea apps, but none of them felt right, so in 2020 I built my own: MyTeaPal. After returning to China in 2021, I launched the MyTeaPal Club and began sourcing tea directly from producers across the country. Today, MyTeaPal helps thousands of tea drinkers around the world learn, explore, and connect through tea. I hope it helps you become more mindful about the teas you've tasted, how you brewed them, and how they made you feel. Wishing you the best on your tea journey! –Vincent, Founder of MyTeaPal

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/