Time for Tea vs Tea Master
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Time for Tea
This app helps you brew the perfect cup of tea by creating custom cooling and brewing timers based on your chosen tea and cup. Save your tea preferences and cup sizes for easy access and consistently delicious results.
- Save custom tea brewing profiles
- Save cup dimensions
- Generate cooling timers
- Generate brewing timers
- Precise temperature and time settings
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Save your teas (giving the brewing temperature and time) and cups (giving the cup volume and top diameter). When you're ready to make a cup of tea, choose your tea and cup and the app will generate two timers - a cooling timer and a brewing timer - specific to the tea and cup. The cooling timer counts down the time to wait after pouring boiling water into the cup for the brewing temperature (e.g. 70°C for green tea) to be reached. The brewing timer then counts down the time from when the tea is added to the water in the cup to when it should be removed. The result is a perfectly brewed cup of tea!
Tea Master
Master the art of tea brewing with personalized guidance. Explore international standards and ancient traditions, track brewing times precisely, and build your own tea collection. Elevate every tea ritual into a refined experience.
- Personalized brewing styles
- International and traditional methods
- Precise brewing time tracking
- Customizable tea collection
- Ritual enhancement
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Brew every tea the way it was actually meant to be brewed. Tea Master gives you per-infusion timings, water temperature and leaf-to-water ratio for 45 teas, and a journal that remembers every cup you have made. FOUR BREWING STYLES • Gongfu: many short infusions, each one a little longer than the last • Western: the classic single long steep • Matcha: whisking timer • Cold brew: hours, not minutes A LIBRARY OF 45 TEAS Sheng and shu pu-erh, oolong, black, green, white, yellow, dark, Japanese and herbal, from Da Hong Pao and Tie Guan Yin to Gyokuro, Sencha and Silver Needle. Every tea carries its own temperature, ratio and full infusion schedule. NEVER MISS A STEEP • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island • Home Screen widgets with quick start • Six timer sounds and haptics YOUR TEA, TRACKED • Brewing journal: rate each session, keep tasting notes • Statistics and streaks • My Shelf: keep track of the teas you actually own • Dosage calculator: enter your vessel size, get the exact grams • Brewing guides for every family of tea • Build your own tea profiles from scratch PRIVATE BY DESIGN No ads. No account. No data collection. Your journal and shelf sync privately through your own iCloud. FREE AND PREMIUM The full timer and two teas are free forever. Premium unlocks the complete 45-tea library, journal, statistics, shelf, dosage calculator, guides and custom profiles, starting with a 7-day free trial. This app is governed by Apple's standard End User License Agreement (EULA), available at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Time for Tea at 5.0 against Tea Master's 3.0. Time for Tea also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Tea Master's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Tea Master sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Time for Tea asks for nothing beyond the download.
Time for Tea holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Time for Tea's written reviews are positive against 67% of Tea Master's.
Time for Tea ships an update every 5 weeks, Tea Master weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Time for Tea | Tea Master |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Annabel van der Kooy | Davyd Hruts |
Customer experience
Time for Tea
Tea Master
In-app purchases
Time for Tea
No in-app purchases
Tea Master
- My Tea Master Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Annual14 Days trial$19.991 Year
- lifetime$44.99









