Comparison

Gongfu Tea Timer vs Brewory

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

Head to head
About

Gongfu Tea Timer

Master traditional Chinese tea ceremonies with precise steep timing for various tea types. This app offers pre-configured settings and custom profiles to ensure perfect results for every brew, including Lock Screen and Dynamic Island notifications.

Highlights
  • Pre-configured timing for 5 tea types
  • Multiple rounds with adjusted steep times
  • Rinse step support
  • Custom tea profile creation
  • Lock Screen timer
  • Dynamic Island support
Features
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Master the art of gongfu tea brewing with precise timing for every steep. Gongfu Tea Timer guides you through the traditional Chinese tea ceremony with optimized steep times for different tea types. Whether you're brewing delicate green tea or robust pu-erh, get perfect results every time. FEATURES: • Pre-configured timing for 5 tea types: Green, Black, Oolong, White, and Pu-erh • Multiple rounds with automatically adjusted steep times • Rinse step for teas that benefit from it • Additional steep generation for extended sessions • Create and save custom tea profiles LIVE ACTIVITIES: • See your timer on the Lock Screen • Dynamic Island support for iPhone 14 Pro and newer • Get alerts when each round completes without opening the app DESIGNED FOR GONGFU: Unlike generic kitchen timers, this app understands gongfu brewing. Each tea type has carefully calibrated times that increase with each steep, following traditional gongfu methodology. Perfect for tea enthusiasts who want consistent, delicious results from their gongfu sessions.

About

Brewory

Features
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Brew better tea and coffee at home with a brewing guide, timer and tasting journal that works completely offline. Brewory gives you the water temperature, the coffee-to-water ratio and the right steep or brew time for every cup — then runs the timer for you. No account, no subscription, no sign-up. Just open the app and brew. Whether you are learning pour over coffee, dialing in espresso, steeping loose leaf tea or starting a batch of cold brew overnight, Brewory turns guesswork into a repeatable recipe you can trust morning after morning. DIAL IN EVERY CUP - Pick a tea or coffee and instantly see the recommended water temperature, strength ratio, grind size and time. - A built-in ratio calculator turns your cup count into the exact grams of coffee or leaf and the right amount of water — a simple coffee to water ratio calculator that scales from one cup to a full carafe. - Big, readable brew timer with an alarm and haptics, plus keep-screen-awake so your phone never sleeps mid-pour. A REAL TIMER FOR TEA AND COFFEE - Multi-infusion steep timer for tea: green, white, oolong, black, pu-erh and herbal tisanes, with successive infusions that get a little longer each time, the way gongfu tea is meant to be brewed. - Single-tap brew timer for pour over, French press, AeroPress, espresso, moka pot, Chemex, Turkish and cold brew. - A clean, distraction-free timer screen — no clutter while your steep counts down. A BREWING GUIDE THAT TEACHES YOU - An offline coffee brewing guide and tea brewing app in one, with original, easy steps, grind size, temperature and ratio for each method. - Convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit, grams and ounces, millilitres and fluid ounces. - Search the whole library to compare methods and find your next favourite. YOUR PERSONAL TASTING JOURNAL - Save your own recipes and tasting notes for coffee and tea, rate every cup and attach a photo. - Repeat a saved brew with one tap so your best results are never lost. - Keep a shelf of beans and teas with roast or harvest dates and a freshness indicator, so you always know what to drink next. SEE YOUR HABITS - A beautiful insights tab with a consistency heatmap, this-week-versus-last comparisons, brews by weekday and by time of day, your most-brewed drinks and personal records. - Unlock around forty achievements as you explore new styles and build a daily brewing ritual. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE BY DESIGN - Everything is stored locally on your device. There is no server and no account. - Export and import your journal and shelf as a JSON backup whenever you like. - A private tea timer and coffee brewing guide with no subscription and no ads-first nagging. PERFECT FOR - Home baristas dialing in pour over, espresso and AeroPress recipes. - Tea lovers who want a proper steep timer for loose leaf tea and multiple infusions. - Anyone who wants a simple, offline brewing app to make a consistent cup every day. Brewing values are general starting points — adjust temperature, ratio and time to your taste, your beans or leaves, and your water. Then save what works and brew it again tomorrow. Download Brewory and make every cup count.

Screenshots

Gongfu Tea Timer3 screens
Brewory4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Gongfu Tea Timer at none against Brewory's shown. Brewory's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.2). On price and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Gongfu Tea Timer versus Brewory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGongfu Tea TimerBrewory
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.213.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRAYMOND LIU LUOFerran Espuna

In-app purchases

None

Gongfu Tea Timer

No in-app purchases

None

Brewory

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gongfu Tea Timer free?
Gongfu Tea Timer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brewory free?
Brewory is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Gongfu Tea Timer or Brewory have ads?
Brewory shows ads; Gongfu Tea Timer does not.

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