Comparison

Tea Timer io vs tealytics

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

Head to head
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.

About

tealytics

Discover your unique tea preferences and track your brewing journey. Explore tea origins, varieties, and brewing styles tailored to your taste. Build a personalized tea passport and never forget a favorite brew.

Highlights
  • Personalized taste learning
  • Tea origin and heritage exploration
  • Customizable brewing suggestions
  • Tea passport with achievements
  • Detailed tea habit analysis
  • Track tea purchases and taste notes
Features
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Your taste is unique. So is your tea story. While you drink, tealytics learns what you brew, where it comes from, whether you actually like it and how your taste shifts over time. Discover the world of tea, tailored to you. From origins and heritage to varieties and brewing styles, tealytics starts with a deep knowledge of tea. Then it learns from you, gradually turning a world of tea knowledge into something that feels made just for you. Take a deeper look at your tea habits. Curious what you have been drinking lately? Which regions you return to most? What your favourites have in common? See the patterns in your own tea habits, and how they compare to what the tealytics community is drinking, loving and discovering. Build your tea passport. Map where your teas come from, fill your tea passport, collect achievements and see how much of the tea world you have already explored, and what is still waiting for you. The Teadex stamps 202 varieties as you brew them. The origin map covers 523 places across 52 countries, 143 of them written up properly. Never forget a tea you loved. tealytics tracks the teas worth remembering: where you got them, what you paid, how you brewed them and how they tasted. So you can find your favourites again when you are ready for more. Brewing that follows you. Every tea arrives with a suggested temperature, time and leaf. Disagree with it twice in a row and tealytics reads that as a trajectory rather than a slip and follows your numbers for the rest of the session instead of its own curve. There is no settings screen for this and no profile to fill in. You just brew. Connoisseur is an optional subscription, monthly, yearly or as a founding member, and it unlocks label scanning, advanced analytics and more. Payment goes through your Apple ID and the subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Terms of Use: https://www.tealytics.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.tealytics.app/privacy

Screenshots

Tea Timer io4 screens
tealytics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tea Timer io at none against tealytics's 3. Tea Timer io also leads on ratings volume (6 vs 1). tealytics's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. tealytics sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. 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 Tea Timer io against 5.0 for tealytics. 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. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tea Timer io ships an update every 2 months, tealytics every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tea Timer io versus tealytics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTea Timer iotealytics
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWhite Rabbit SoftwarePhilipp Bochmann

Customer experience

Tea Timer io

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

tealytics

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tea Timer io

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

tealytics

Subscriptions3
  • Connoisseur (monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Connoisseur (founding member)$14.991 Year
  • Connoisseur (annual)$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Tea Timer io free?
Tea Timer io is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is tealytics free?
tealytics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tea Timer io or tealytics?
Tea Timer io and tealytics are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Tea Timer io or tealytics have ads?
Neither Tea Timer io nor tealytics shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tea Timer io or tealytics?
Tea Timer io ships an update every 2 months, and tealytics every 10 days. Most recently, Tea Timer io was updated on October 19, 2026 and tealytics on October 31, 2026.

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