Comparison

What The Fridge?! vs Tea Timer io

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

Head to head
About

What The Fridge?!

Easily track food items in your fridge, pantry, and freezer to prevent waste and plan meals. Features include barcode scanning, voice input, receipt scanning, and expiration date notifications. Share your inventory with family and roommates to stay organized.

Highlights
  • Barcode scanning for item addition
  • Voice input for quick entry
  • Receipt scanning with AI parsing
  • Custom locations and categories
  • Expiration date notifications
  • Shared inventory and shopping lists
  • Home screen widget
Features
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Stop buying duplicates and throwing food away because it's expired. What The Fridge?! helps you track what’s in your fridge, pantry, and freezer (or wherever you keep food - your desk, in the bedroom) so you can plan meals, shop smarter, and waste less. Add items in seconds, organize them however you want, and get notified before they expire. Features include: - Manual addition of items with barcode scanning: name, location, expiration, quantity, tags, notes - Voice: speak naturally and review the parsed list before adding (AI runs on-device; first use requires a one-time model download on Wi‑Fi) - Bulk: enter multiple items at once and add all in one tap - Receipt Scanning: Snap a photo of your receipt, let our AI parse all the items, present you with a list to import, then set expiration dates, locations, persons, etc. - Custom locations (need to know what's in the garage? in your kid's room?) - Custom categories (when scanning a barcode, we'll determine category, but if you want to add your own, you can) - Lightning fast search: find any item, instantly. - Dark mode; even Dracula would approve. - Suggested shopping list items: when you run out of something, you can quickly add it to your list. - People assignments: since you can filter by person, you can tag items by who eats them. Know who has what food, and where. - Filter by Expiration (Expired, Expiring Today, Expiring Tomorrow, and Expiring Soon), Person, Location, or Category. - Optional push notifications for expiration reminders (today, tomorrow, in three days, already expired) - Share your inventory with family/roommates so everyone stays in sync. Just send a link, QR code, or your unique six-digit inventory identifier. - Shared shopping list support when using a shared inventory - Add a Home Screen widget to see counts of items that are expiring soon or have already expired. * Optional AI Receipt Scanning (paid add-on): Scan a grocery receipt and get a reviewable list before adding items. (Receipt scanning requires an internet connection.) * Sign in with Apple is optional (the app works without it). Signing in enables cross-device syncing. By using What The Fridge?!, you agree to Apple's Standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement (EULA). For more information, please visit: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Tea Timer io

This app provides precise brewing parameters for various teas, including temperature, ratio, and steep time. It supports multiple brewing styles and offers customizable settings for eleven different tea types. Enjoy a guided brewing experience with notifications and haptic feedback, all without ads or requiring an account.

Highlights
  • Precise temperature, ratio, and steep time
  • Supports standard, gongfu, Japanese, and cold brew styles
  • Presets for 11 tea types
  • Multi-infusion timer
  • Adjustable and saved brew settings
  • Offline functionality
  • Local notifications and haptic feedback
Features
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The tea timer that respects how tea is actually brewed. Whether you're pouring a quick cup of black tea or running a five-infusion gongfu session, Tea Timer gives you the exact temperature, ratio, and steep time for the tea in your cup. Not a generic 3-to-5-minute guess. Four brewing styles in one app • Standard. Single steep, the way most of the world drinks tea. • Gongfu. Sequential short infusions, each pour timed individually. • Japanese. Shorter, hotter, traditional Japanese style. • Cold Brew. Long, gentle extraction in the fridge. Eleven teas, dialed in Green, white, oolong, black, pu-erh, herbal, sencha, gyokuro, genmaicha, hojicha, and matcha. Each preset has a research-backed default temperature (°C or °F), a tea-to-water ratio in grams, and a per-infusion time. Add your own varieties under any tea type, each with its own temperature, ratio, and timing. Built for the brew, not the cup • Multi-infusion timer that walks you through every steep. • Adjust temperature, ratio, and time per tea, saved automatically. • Visual session progress so you never lose your place mid-flight. • Local notifications when your tea is ready. • Haptic feedback at start, finish, and each infusion change. • Works offline. No account required. Tea Timer now learns how you like your tea. • Rate a steep as too weak, just right, or too bitter, and future steep times adjust to your taste. See the adjustment, undo a stray rating, or reset it anytime. • Score a finished brew on aroma, flavor, body, and more. Every scale explains what it measures and what a good score looks like. • History logs every brew: steeps, sessions, teas tried, and your daily streak, with your tasting notes a tap away. • Keep your own teas under any type, like a Dragonwell under Green, with separate settings per brew style. • Time steppers on every brew style, and an option to end a gongfu session early. • New Midnight dark theme, plus five more. Designed to disappear into the ritual Calm color palette. Big, legible numbers. No ads. No social feed. No login. Open the app, pick the tea, hit start. That's it. For people who care about tea If you've ever ruined a cup because you forgot the timer, lost track of which infusion you were on, or wished your kitchen timer knew the difference between sencha and gyokuro, this app is for you. Tea Timer also runs free on the web at teatimer.app. Same presets, same brew, on whichever device is closest to your kettle. Brew better. Every cup.

Screenshots

What The Fridge?!4 screens
Tea Timer io4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tea Timer io at none against What The Fridge?!'s 8. Tea Timer io also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). What The Fridge?!'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating and ads 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. What The Fridge?! sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per year. Tea Timer io asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for What The Fridge?! against 5.0 for Tea Timer io. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tea Timer io has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

What The Fridge?! ships an update every 2 days, Tea Timer io every 2 months. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
What The Fridge?! versus Tea Timer io: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhat The Fridge?!Tea Timer io
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings16 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael JandreauWhite Rabbit Software

Customer experience

What The Fridge?!

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tea Timer io

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

What The Fridge?!

Subscriptions3
  • Annual Subscription14 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Annual AI Add-on$11.991 Year
  • Annual + AI Add-on$11.991 Year
One-time5
  • Add AI to Lifetime Subscription$5.00
  • Upgrade from Annual to Lifetime$7.99
  • Annual Upgrade to Lifetime with AI$11.49
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  • Lifetime Subscription$14.99
  • Lifetime with AI Add-on$19.99
None

Tea Timer io

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is What The Fridge?! free?
What The Fridge?! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tea Timer io free?
Tea Timer io is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, What The Fridge?! or Tea Timer io?
What The Fridge?! and Tea Timer io are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 6 ratings respectively.
Do What The Fridge?! or Tea Timer io have ads?
Neither What The Fridge?! nor Tea Timer io shows ads.
Which is updated more often, What The Fridge?! or Tea Timer io?
What The Fridge?! ships an update every 2 days, and Tea Timer io every 2 months. Most recently, What The Fridge?! was updated on November 5, 2026 and Tea Timer io on November 5, 2026.

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