Comparison

Teafinity vs tealytics

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

Head to head
About

Teafinity

This app helps you brew the perfect cup of tea every time. Identify teas with your camera, use smart timers, and explore detailed guides for over 170 varieties. Discover new favorites and build your personal tea collection.

Highlights
  • AI-powered tea recognition via camera
  • Smart brewing timers with notifications
  • 170+ comprehensive tea guides
  • Personalized tea recommendations
  • Build and track personal tea collection
  • Custom brewing profiles
Features
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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/

About

tealytics

Features
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Your taste is unique. So is your tea story. While you drink, tealytics learns what you brew, where it comes from, whether you actually like it and how your taste shifts over time. Discover the world of tea, tailored to you. From origins and heritage to varieties and brewing styles, tealytics starts with a deep knowledge of tea. Then it learns from you, gradually turning a world of tea knowledge into something that feels made just for you. Take a deeper look at your tea habits. Curious what you have been drinking lately? Which regions you return to most? What your favourites have in common? See the patterns in your own tea habits, and how they compare to what the tealytics community is drinking, loving and discovering. Build your tea passport. Map where your teas come from, fill your tea passport, collect achievements and see how much of the tea world you have already explored, and what is still waiting for you. The Teadex stamps 202 varieties as you brew them. The origin map covers 523 places across 52 countries, 143 of them written up properly. Never forget a tea you loved. tealytics tracks the teas worth remembering: where you got them, what you paid, how you brewed them and how they tasted. So you can find your favourites again when you are ready for more. Brewing that follows you. Every tea arrives with a suggested temperature, time and leaf. Disagree with it twice in a row and tealytics reads that as a trajectory rather than a slip and follows your numbers for the rest of the session instead of its own curve. There is no settings screen for this and no profile to fill in. You just brew.

Screenshots

Teafinity4 screens
tealytics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: tealytics at none against Teafinity's 5. tealytics also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Teafinity sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days. tealytics asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Teafinity ships an update every 2 weeks, tealytics every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Teafinity versus tealytics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTeafinitytealytics
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (33 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings33 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB59 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPOCKET IMPLEMENTATION S.R.L.Philipp Bochmann

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Teafinity

Subscriptions4
  • Teafinity Premium Weekly$3.997 Days
  • Teafinity Premium Yearly$19.991 Year
  • Teafinity Premium Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
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  • Teafinity Premium Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Teafinity Premium Forever$99.99
None

tealytics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Teafinity free?
Teafinity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is tealytics free?
tealytics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Teafinity or tealytics have ads?
Neither Teafinity nor tealytics shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Teafinity or tealytics?
Teafinity ships an update every 2 weeks, and tealytics every 3 days. Most recently, Teafinity was updated on October 7, 2026 and tealytics on October 4, 2026.

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