Comparison

Tea Cup vs Pet Journal

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

Head to head
About

Tea Cup

Brew the perfect cup of tea with custom timers for various blends. Track your brewing history with daily, weekly, and global statistics. Enjoy a delightful xylophone notification when your tea is ready.

Highlights
  • Customizable tea timers
  • 30 popular tea blends included
  • Add and favorite custom teas
  • Temperature indicator for water
  • Brewing statistics tracking
  • Xylophone notification
Features
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Brew the perfect cup of tea and enjoy it in harmony. Whether you're in the mood for a cup of green, black, herbal, fruit or other tea, use the Tea Cup app to set up a timer. The app already has a 30-blend list with the most popular teas but you can also add new ones and mark your favorites so they appear at the top of the list. Check the temperature indicator before boiling the water and get all the ingredients ready. Finally, just relax and wait for the timer to notify you when your tea is brewed. Be delighted with a xylophone notification when your tea is ready to be served and see daily, weekly and global statistics. Features: - Set up your preferred teas or select from our list. - Get a delightful notification when your tea is ready to be served. - Get time and temperature for 30 blends of tea. - See statistics for number of teas brewed. Send suggestions about the app, tell us if something's wrong or simply say hi at hi@teacup.club. We're happy to hear from you!

About

Pet Journal

Capture and cherish every moment of your pet's life with a beautiful photo diary. Create detailed profiles, log milestones, and build a visual timeline of their journey. This app offers a private space to preserve memories, with options for sharing keepsakes with loved ones.

Highlights
  • Beautiful pet profiles with cover photos and timelines
  • Log photos, Live Photos, and important dates
  • Personality tags and notes for detailed memories
  • Gentle, scrollable life timeline
  • Create long images and collages of milestones
  • Home screen widgets and Spotlight search integration
  • Private by default with optional iCloud sync
  • Peer-to-peer nearby sharing and HD sharing cards
Features
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Every pet leaves footprints in your heart. Pet Journal helps you keep their story — every milestone, every quiet day, every little moment that meant something. Snap a photo. It becomes a beautiful cover. Write the moment behind it — a first walk, a vet visit, a silly habit, the day they came home. Then watch their whole life unfold on one timeline. Pet Journal is a memory keeper for every pet you love. Not just a tracker. Not just a photo album. A gentle place to hold their life — and yours together. BEAUTIFUL PET PROFILES Every pet gets a cover photo, species, breed, age, personality, and a timeline that grows with them. Live Photos stay alive — tap and hold to relive the moment. A LIVING MEMORY LOG For each pet, capture: • Photos and Live Photos of every milestone • Birthdays, gotcha days, vet visits, first walks • Personality tags that capture who they really are • Notes, dates, and the little things you don't want to forget • Who they are to you — in your own words GENTLE TIMELINE A scrollable story of your pet's life, sorted by time. Watch them grow from the day they came home. No social feed. No likes. Just memories, kept the way you want them. LONG IMAGE & COLLAGE Stitch your pet's milestones into one beautiful long image, or arrange your whole crew into a shareable collage. Perfect for birthday posts, gotcha-day anniversaries, or quiet moments of nostalgia. WIDGETS, SPOTLIGHT & MORE A random pet on your Home or Lock Screen. Spotlight search to jump straight into any profile. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Everything stays on your device, with optional iCloud sync across your own devices. Your pet's story is yours alone. SHARE WITH PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM TOO Peer-to-peer nearby sharing lets family members receive your pet's full record without an account or a cloud round-trip. Premium HD sharing cards turn every post into a keepsake. WIDGETS, SPOTLIGHT & MORE A random pet on your Home or Lock Screen. Spotlight search to jump straight into any profile. Batch import, CSV export, and full multilingual support — every detail polished. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Everything stays on your device, with optional iCloud sync across your own devices. Your pet's story is yours alone. PERFECT FOR: • Cat parents, dog parents, and everyone in between • Multi-pet households tracking siblings, litters, and lineage • First-time pet owners starting fresh • Sitters and vets who want quick access via QR or NFC • Memory keepers, scrapbookers, and journal lovers • Families sharing moments with grandparents and faraway friends • Anyone who wants more than a camera roll for their pet WHY PET JOURNAL IS DIFFERENT Most pet apps treat your pet like data — weight charts, vaccination tables, cold reminders. Pet Journal treats them like family. Every photo you save becomes a tiny keepsake. Every entry is a moment kept. It's a quiet space for the ordinary, beautiful days you'll want to remember. Less tracking. More remembering. Download Pet Journal and start a story worth keeping. Terms of Use: https://elevenapril.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://elevenapril.com/privacy

Screenshots

Tea Cup4 screens
Pet Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tea Cup at none against Pet Journal's 5. Tea Cup also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Pet Journal sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Tea Cup asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tea Cup against 5.0 for Pet Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 8 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tea Cup versus Pet Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTea CupPet Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings38 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS9.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCobalt Sign帅 陈

Customer experience

Tea Cup

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pet Journal

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tea Cup

No in-app purchases

5 purchases

Pet Journal

Subscriptions3
  • Pet Journal Premium Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Pet Journal Premium Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Pet Journal Premium Yearly3 Days trial$8.991 Year
One-time2
  • Pet Journal Premium Lifetime$14.99
  • Pet Journal Premium Lifetime$17.99

Questions

Is Tea Cup free?
Tea Cup is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pet Journal free?
Pet Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tea Cup or Pet Journal?
Tea Cup and Pet Journal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 8 ratings respectively.
Do Tea Cup or Pet Journal have ads?
Neither Tea Cup nor Pet Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tea Cup or Pet Journal?
Tea Cup ships an update weekly, and Pet Journal weekly. Most recently, Tea Cup was updated on November 3, 2026 and Pet Journal on November 5, 2026.

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