Comparison

Teafinity vs Tea Tasting Log

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

Tea Tasting Log

Features
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Same leaves, different water—taste shifts. Capture the cup. Tea Tasting Log stores each tasting: tea name, type, origin, optional water temperature, steep time, leaf amount, a 1–5 rating, and free-form notes. Star favorites, search older cups, glance at type and rating stats, and pin a favorite or recent tea on a Home Screen widget. Personal diary only—not a health product or professional cupping score. LOG A CUP • Name, type (green / black / oolong / herbal / other), origin • Date; optional °C, steep seconds, grams of leaf • Star rating and tasting notes • Favorite, edit, delete FIND & OVERVIEW • Search name, type, origin, notes • Totals for entries, average rating, favorites • Swipe to favorite or delete FAVORITES & STATS • Card list of favorites with type, rating, origin, date • Totals, average, favorites, distinct types tried • Counts by type, 1–5 distribution, last six months WIDGET • Prefers a favorite, else a recent entry • Small and medium; medium can show brew temperature and steep time LOOK & STORAGE • System / light / dark • On-device store shared with the widget • No account ABOUT ADS Bottom banner. One-time “Remove Ads” hides it. Features are not paywalled. DATA & NETWORK Tasting fields stay on device. Network use is mainly for ads and optional App Store purchases. Note: You own the text you enter. For personal logging only—not health, nutrition, or certified tasting advice.

Screenshots

Teafinity4 screens
Tea Tasting Log4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Teafinity at none against Tea Tasting Log's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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 and Tea Tasting Log sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Teafinity versus Tea Tasting Log: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTeafinityTea Tasting Log
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (33 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings33 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPOCKET IMPLEMENTATION S.R.L.丽佳 施

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
1 purchases

Tea Tasting Log

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99

Questions

Is Teafinity free?
Teafinity is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tea Tasting Log free?
Tea Tasting Log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Teafinity or Tea Tasting Log have ads?
Tea Tasting Log shows ads; Teafinity does not.

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