Comparison

Tea Timer vs Chawan

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

Head to head
About

Tea Timer

This app helps you brew the perfect cup of tea with precise timers and temperature guidance for various tea types. Track your brews, manage your tea library, and monitor caffeine intake. It offers Apple Watch integration for convenient brewing on the go.

Highlights
  • Apple Watch brewing
  • Precise timers for all tea types
  • Multi-steep profiles
  • Custom tea library
  • Brew history and caffeine tracking
  • Live Activities integration
Features
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A precise tea timer and brew journal for iPhone and Apple Watch. Start a timer from your wrist or phone, follow the right time and temperature, and keep every brew in one place. BREW FROM APPLE WATCH • Start timers instantly from the app or a complication. • Pause, resume, add time, or cancel from your wrist. • Get optional pre-alert haptics before your tea is ready. • Keep brewing when your iPhone is not nearby. PRECISE TIMERS FOR EVERY TEA • Built-in presets for green, black, oolong, white, herbal, chai, pu-erh, matcha, and rooibos. • Time and temperature guidance for loose leaf tea or tea bags. • Multi-steep profiles for gongfu sessions and repeat infusions. • Run several tea timers at once. BUILD YOUR TEA LIBRARY • Add custom teas, notes, photos, and favorite brewing parameters. • Organize teas into collections and choose what appears on Apple Watch. • Save ratings and tasting notes to remember your best cups. TRACK BREWS AND CAFFEINE • Review brew history, streaks, and weekly insights. • See estimated caffeine adjusted for steep time and infusion number. • Get an optional bedtime caffeine warning. • Sync completed brews with Apple Health. STAY IN SYNC • Follow active timers with Live Activities on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island. • Keep teas, history, collections, settings, and photos synced with iCloud. • Use iPhone and Apple Watch together or independently. STEEP PRO Choose monthly, yearly, or lifetime access to unlock unlimited custom teas, caffeine insights, complete brew history, multiple simultaneous timers, iCloud sync, and advanced timer controls. Whether you brew once a day or run an afternoon gongfu session, Steep keeps every cup precise. Terms of Use: https://trifoiltrailblazer.com/en/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://trifoiltrailblazer.com/en/privacy-policy

About

Chawan

Features
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Chawan is a matcha companion for brewing, logging, and keeping a tin journal. Time your whisk, watch your caffeine curve, and browse guides and 26 recipes. BREW Pick a style: usucha, koicha, hot latte, iced latte, or a matcha shot. Chawan times each step, sift, water, whisk, serve, with sound and haptics along the way. A Live Activity keeps the timer visible on your Lock Screen. Finishing a brew logs a serving on its own. JOURNAL Keep a record of every tin: brand, grade, origin, price, and grams left. Rate what you drink, tag the flavor, and get a reminder when a tin is running low. Chawan works out cost per serving so you know what you're actually spending. LEARN Eight guides cover grades, storage, water temperature, and how to buy matcha without getting scammed. Twenty-six recipes cover lattes, iced drinks, and a few baking ideas, written in plain text with no stock photos. TODAY A caffeine and L-theanine curve shows what's in your system right now, built from the servings you've logged. Log coffee, espresso, or tea alongside matcha and the curve counts them too. Caffeine numbers are estimates based on published averages, not a lab measurement of what you drank. WATCH AND WIDGETS A watchOS app runs the brew timer on your wrist with haptic steps. Widgets show today's servings and your caffeine curve on the Home Screen and Lock Screen. A Control Center button starts your default brew. SYNC Tins, brews, and journal entries sync over your own iCloud account. There's no sign-up and no login screen. CHAWAN PRO Chawan is free to use: the brew timer, two tins, six recipes, the Today curve, and iCloud sync all come at no cost. Chawan Pro is a one-time purchase of $4.99. It adds unlimited tins, every guide and recipe, the sleep-cutoff forecast, near-me favorites, alternate accents and app icons, and CSV export. No subscription, ever. PRIVACY No ads. No account. Your data stays on your device and in your own iCloud, not ours.

Screenshots

Tea Timer4 screens
Chawan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Tea Timer at 18.5 against Chawan's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Tea Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and Chawan sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Tea Timer versus Chawan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTea TimerChawan
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.5 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIvan TerekhinAsharaf Ali

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Tea Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Tea Timer Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
  • Tea Timer Pro Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Premium$29.99
1 purchases

Chawan

One-time1
  • Chawan Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Tea Timer free?
Tea Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chawan free?
Chawan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tea Timer or Chawan have ads?
Neither Tea Timer nor Chawan shows ads.

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