Teafinity vs CAFESSIO

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/

Don't just time your tea. Remember how you made it great. CAFESSIO is a brewing instrument for people who take tea seriously: gongfu sessions in a gaiwan, matcha whisked in a chawan, gyokuro in a kyusu, cold brew overnight. It records what you actually did — every infusion, every adjustment — so a session you loved can be repeated exactly. BREW MEMORY Every steep is saved with the time you actually poured at, not the time the recipe suggested. Mark a session as your reference brew, and the next time you reach for that tea, one tap replays it: 8 s, 12 s, 15 s, 20 s, just as you poured it. GONGFU, BUILT FOR THE TEA TABLE • Rinses, then up to 30 infusions, with a schedule that keeps extending • Big controls you can hit with wet hands: pour, skip, ±1 s, −5 s, +5 s, +10 s • Adjust temperature mid-session; the ring shows overtime instead of just stopping • After a pour: too weak, balanced, or too strong — it suggests a change for the next steep and never edits your recipe behind your back • Intuition mode replaces the countdown with a stopwatch for drinkers who pour by feel MATCHA, NOT AN AFTERTHOUGHT • Guided usucha, koicha, latte, iced and shaken preparations, step by step • A whisk timer with a real motion guide and haptics at the halfway point and the finish • Koicha kneads instead of whisking, with its own slower guide • Tins tracked by brand, cultivar, harvest, vendor grade as written on the package • Freshness is your own preference window, never an expiry date • Cost per bowl, and how many bowls are left in the tin JAPANESE, WESTERN, ICED, GRANDPA, COLD BREW Per-infusion temperatures for sencha and gyokuro, a guided water-cooling checklist that never pretends to calculate a temperature it cannot know, long timers for cold brew that survive the screen going off. YOUR COLLECTION Tea lots and matcha tins with origin, cultivar, harvest, roast, pu-erh format and storage. Grams come off automatically when you brew. Cost per session, sessions remaining, low-stock filters. Teaware with usable volume, so a recipe scales to your gaiwan: 6 g / 100 ml in a 135 ml gaiwan becomes 8.1 g. A JOURNAL THAT EARNS ITS PLACE Rate a session, tag what you tasted, write notes per infusion. Compare two brews of the same tea side by side and see exactly what differed. Insights are plain arithmetic over your own sessions — "your highest-rated sessions used 95–98 °C" — never invented expertise. 38 STARTING RECIPES Da Hong Pao, Dan Cong, Tie Guan Yin, Taiwan high mountain, sheng and shou pu-erh, Long Jing, Bi Luo Chun, Silver Needle, sencha, gyokuro, hojicha, genmaicha, usucha, koicha, matcha lattes, Darjeeling, Assam, Ceylon, English Breakfast, cold brew and more. They are starting points, clearly labelled as such — not rules. OFFLINE, PRIVATE, QUIET No account. Works fully offline. Your teas, brews and notes stay on your iPhone or iPad. Everything is free: every timer and guide, your journal, recipes, insights, brew comparisons and water profiles. No ads, no subscriptions. Eight languages: English, Spanish, Italian, French, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Thai. Dark and light themes, °C/°F, g/oz, ml/fl oz. CAFESSIO is a brewing assistant, not a lesson in ceremony. It respects Chinese, Taiwanese and Japanese tea traditions without claiming to reproduce them.