SteepPilot vs Pekoe

SteepPilot times every infusion of your tea session. Pick your tea and it sets the water temperature, the leaf for your vessel and how long each steep runs, a few seconds longer every round. Then it times them one by one. GONGFU OR WESTERN Gongfu mode is many short steeps in a small gaiwan or teapot. Set the first steep, the seconds added each round and the number of infusions. Western mode is one long steep in a large mug. EIGHT TEAS Green, black, oolong, white, sheng and shou pu-erh, herbal and matcha each come with their own water temperature and starting steep times. Pu-erh starts with a rinse. Temperatures in °C or °F. LEAF FOR YOUR VESSEL Set the size of your gaiwan, teapot or mug and SteepPilot suggests how much leaf to use, depending on the tea and the brewing method. ICED TEA One switch splits the water into hot water and ice. THE TIMER Each infusion gets its own countdown ring. A soft chime and a vibration tell you when to pour, and the screen stays on. Pause, skip, or let the infusions advance on their own. The timer keeps running when your iPhone locks, and a notification tells you when each steep is done. A running session survives the app being closed. TASTE AS YOU GO Between infusions, tap the flavors you taste and give the infusion stars. Pro adds a short written note for each infusion. At the end, the summary shows how many infusions you made, how long the session took and a rough caffeine estimate. TEA JOURNAL Save a session with its rating and tasting notes and read back through it later. The free version keeps three sessions. Pro keeps them all and exports your journal as a CSV file. MY TEAS Keep your loose leaf teas with origin, vendor and how many grams are left. Save a session with one of them and its leaf comes off what's left, and SteepPilot tells you when a tea is running low. Five teas are free, Pro has no limit. PRESETS Save a setup you like and start it again with one tap. ICLOUD SYNC Your journal, teas and presets reach your other Apple devices through your own iCloud. You can turn sync off in Settings. PRIVACY No account and no SteepPilot server. No analytics, no ads, no tracking. Notifications are scheduled on your iPhone and never pass through a server. FREE AND PRO Free: all eight teas, gongfu and western timers, iced tea, flavor tags and ratings, presets, three journal sessions and five teas. SteepPilot Pro keeps an unlimited journal and tea collection, adds a written note for each infusion and exports your journal as CSV. Pro is available as a monthly or yearly subscription, or as a one-time lifetime purchase. The price is shown in the app before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase. A subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal is charged within the 24 hours before the period ends. You can manage or cancel it in your iPhone's Settings under your name, then Subscriptions. Help: https://apps.alexgalkin.de/steeppilot/ Privacy policy: https://apps.alexgalkin.de/steeppilot/privacy/ Terms of use: 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.