Tea Journal Brew Timer vs Pekoe

Steep is the beautiful tea journal for serious tea lovers. Track every brew session, perfect your technique, and discover what makes each cup exceptional. From your first gongfu session to your thousandth infusion, Steep captures every detail. BREW TIMER - Precision countdown timer for gongfu and Western brewing - Infusion tracking with automatic time increments - Per-infusion notes and mini ratings - Smart presets: gaiwan, teapot, kyusu, mug TEA COLLECTION - Build your personal tea library with unlimited entries (Pro) - Track vendor, origin, harvest year, and quantity - Flavor tagging with 40+ descriptors - Visual quantity tracker (full, half, empty) SESSION JOURNAL - Detailed tasting records for every brew - Rate aroma, flavor, mouthfeel, aftertaste, sweetness, and cha qi - Flavor descriptor tags - Session notes and photos INSIGHTS AND STATS - Track your daily brewing streak - Most-brewed teas and brewing history - Tasting evolution over time GO PRO - UNLOCK EVERYTHING - Unlimited tea collection (free tier: 5 teas) - Unlimited session history (free tier: 20 sessions) - AI Tea Advisor - personalized recommendations powered by Grok - Advanced tasting analytics and palate evolution - Session comparison side by side - CSV export and sharing Whether you brew longjing at 75 degrees or aged pu-erh at full boil, Steep honors the ritual. Warm parchment design, airy spacing, no clutter. Just you and the tea. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Pekoe is a private tea timer, personal recipe book, and tasting journal, for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. Every tea opens on its exact recipe already set: 35 teas from 25 regions, each with its temperature, leaf, water, steeps. No account, no ads. Multiple infusions, gongfu style: each steep keeps its own time, and the next begins right where the last one ended. Brew, taste, judge in one tap, too light, just right, too strong, and Pekoe proposes one clear change for next time, in plain words. Accept it, and your recipe quietly becomes yours. THE LOOP • Every tea opens on its exact recipe, temperature, leaf, water, steeps • A timer built for tea: multiple infusions, a Live Activity, and a Dynamic Island that fills the tea's vessel • The dial is a stoneware bowl seen from above: time is a pool of tea spreading to the wall, and at 0:00 a last drop falls • The bell rings at zero even when Pekoe is closed (iOS 26 and later). Pekoe asks once, before your first steep • Each tea names its method, Western, Gongfu, or Japanese, on the tea page and the Brew screen • After the cup, one tap: Too light / Just right / Too strong • Too strong, but how? Bitter or heavy: the nuance picks the lever, water or leaf, and the advice says why. Never a black box • Next time, that tea remembers. "Your recipe", it says. It means it. • The recipe thread: every adjustment you kept, drawn on the tea's page, with your last verdict in words ONE PEKOE, EVERY SCREEN • On iPad, the brew screen opens into a full brewing bench, the dial beside steeps, ideal window, and origin • On Apple Watch, turn the crown to one of your last five teas, follow the steep, judge it at the wrist. The cup reaches your phone's journal, and a complication joins the watch face • The widget starts the brew in place. Control Center and the Action button start your last tea • A pekoetimer.com/tea link opens that tea, or a shared recipe ready to brew. Without Pekoe, an App Clip brews it • °C or °F: one setting, and every recipe, slider, and cooling curve follows THE ATLAS • The world of tea has a tab of its own: 25 regions drawn from real geography, each with its story. Each wears a painted card • Harvest shelves show which teas are being plucked, all year round • Gardens on the map: real tea gardens to visit, region by region • Paintings from the world's great museums, all public domain YOUR TEAS • 35 teas from 25 real regions: origin, process, harvest calendar, and the story of each leaf • Five herbal infusions join the leaf: lavender, linden, peppermint, hibiscus, and ginger, each with its recipe and a map of its origin • How each tea is made, drawn: twenty-one gestures in a single ink line, from withering to firing • Asamushi Sencha, Yame Gyokuro, and Uji Matcha brew as Shizuoka, Yame, and the Uji houses write them • Every tea wears the color of its cup, celadon to copper. Theine in words, never milligrams • Add your own teas in seconds: a name and a family, or Read a label • Search teas in the picker, Custom tea first. Find any tea from Spotlight too YOUR JOURNAL • Every session stamped and searchable, parameters, verdict, stars, notes • Edit anything, even the date. Last night's forgotten pot has a place • Share card: from a journal entry, your cup as a sticker on a notebook page, for Feed or Stories, cut out on the device • Deleted by mistake? Undo. Six seconds of forgiveness YOURS, FULL STOP • No account. No ads. No tracking. No Pekoe server • Your data lives on your devices and in your private iCloud, where Pekoe cannot see it • Export your whole journal as JSON or CSV, and restore it just as easily • Something to tell us? One line in Settings opens a mail you send yourself Siri speaks tea, in English and French: "Start a brew in Pekoe", "Brew again in Pekoe", "Just boiled in Pekoe". And Pekoe itself speaks English, French, Japanese, and Arabic, fully right to left. Pekoe remembers how you brew, so every cup gets better.