Tea Timer io vs Keetle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Keetle
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Stop guessing when your kettle will boil. Keetle calculates the exact time from real physics—wattage, water volume, start temperature, and efficiency—then counts it down live so you can walk away and get pinged the second it is ready. The timer follows you everywhere: Lock Screen, Dynamic Island, Live Activity, Home Screen widgets, and Control Center. No more hovering over the kettle. WHY KEETLE - Precise boil time from physics, not a generic countdown - A built-in water thermometer: weather-aware tap and room temperature for an accurate start point - A catalog of 2,600+ real kettle models, plus a barcode and label scanner to add yours - Works with electric and stovetop kettles - A playful animated kettle character in 8 visual styles FREE Boil to the boiling point at your altitude, with the live timer, notifications, and widgets. Egg timer: runny, jammy, medium or hard, timed by egg size, start temperature and altitude, running right beside your boil. KEETLE PREMIUM - Boil, then cool to an exact tea or coffee temperature - Named tea presets with a built-in steep timer - Still-hot reheat when the water has cooled a little - Full boil history - All 8 kettle styles Premium is available as a subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase. Perfect for tea lovers, pour-over coffee, French press, green tea, and anyone who wants their water at the right temperature—every time. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tea Timer io at none against Keetle's 3. Tea Timer io also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). Keetle's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). On price 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
Both are free to download. Keetle sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Tea Timer io asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tea Timer io ships an update every 2 months, Keetle every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tea Timer io | Keetle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 50 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | White Rabbit Software | Artem Frolov |
In-app purchases
Tea Timer io
No in-app purchases
Keetle
- Keetle Premium (Monthly)7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Keetle Premium (Yearly)7 Days trial$11.991 Year
- Keetle Premium (Lifetime)$29.99









