Comparison

Tea Brewing Master vs Tincture

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

Head to head
About

Tea Brewing Master

Features
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Brew tea with intention. Tea Brewing Master turns your daily cup into a craft. From a Pre-Qingming Dragon Well to a roasted Wuyi oolong, the app guides you with precise water temperatures, recommended steep times, and the right vessel for every leaf. EXPLORE 151 TEAS A curated tea library spanning green, black, oolong, white, yellow, pu-erh, and herbal categories. Every profile includes tasting notes, processing method, harvest season, native name, and recommended brewing parameters in both Western and Gong Fu styles. DISCOVER 104 ORIGINS The Origin Atlas takes you to 104 growing regions across China, Japan, Taiwan, India, Sri Lanka, Kenya, and beyond. Each region shows climate, altitude, cultivar, and the teas that come from there. Build your own map of terroir as you learn. WESTERN AND GONG FU BREWING Pick your style with one tap. Western brewing for a single long steep. Gong Fu for short repeated infusions that reveal new notes with every cup. PRECISION TIMER A focused brew screen with a clear countdown, water temperature, water amount, and tea dosage. Pre-warm timer for your vessel. Multiple simultaneous timers when you brew a flight side by side. Choose your steep sound from a curated library of ambient gongs and chimes. CUSTOM TEAS Add your own teas with photos, native names, origin, category, and brewing parameters. Build a private library that mirrors your shelf. VESSEL PAIRING Recommendations for the cup or pot that best suits each profile, from gaiwan to glass kyusu, with working capacity guidance. HOME SCREEN WIDGETS Small and medium widgets show the active brew session at a glance with tea name, remaining time, temperature, water amount, and dosage. Idle state shows your favorites for one-tap brewing. THOUGHTFUL DETAILS Switch temperature units between Celsius and Fahrenheit. Pick from five hand-drawn app icons. Export your brewing data to CSV when you want to take it elsewhere. iCloud Sync keeps your library and history across your devices. BUILT FOR FOCUS Native interface. No accounts required. No ads. No tracking SDKs. Your data stays yours. GET BREWING Open the Library, pick a tea, start a session. The right parameters appear automatically. Adjust to taste. Save your favorites. Build a brewing ritual that fits your morning, your afternoon, and your evening. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Tincture

Features
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Tincture is a precision brew timer for tea steeping and coffee extraction — one clean stage that walks you through every phase, no clutter, no upsells. Eighteen bundled recipes cover the brews you actually make: gongfu oolongs and puerh with multiple short infusions, delicate greens at the right temperature, V60 and Chemex pour-overs with bloom and pour stages, AeroPress, French press, moka pot, espresso, and cold brew. KEY FEATURES • Multi-phase brew clock with circular progress and per-phase labels (Bloom, Pour to 60%, 1st Steep, Press, …) • 18 curated profiles for tea and coffee, each with water temperature, ratio, total time, and notes • Built-in ratio calculator: pick a serving size and Tincture computes grams of leaf or coffee and ml of water • Background audio support so the timer keeps running while you read or take notes • Logbook of completed brews with quick post-brew rating • Library view grouped by family (green, oolong, black, pour-over, immersion, espresso…) DESIGNED FOR THE BREWBAR Whether you're working through a gongfu session, dialing in a new pour-over, or pulling espresso, Tincture stays focused on the pour in front of you. PRIVACY No tracking. No accounts. Your brew log lives on your device.

Screenshots

Tea Brewing Master4 screens
Tincture3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tincture at none against Tea Brewing Master's 3. Tincture also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Tea Brewing Master sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Tincture asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 5 level
Tea Brewing Master versus Tincture: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTea Brewing MasterTincture
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCederic SchmidLinh Phan Nhat Khanh

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Tea Brewing Master

Subscriptions2
  • TBM Monthly$2.991 Month
  • TBM Annual3 Days trial$12.991 Year
One-time1
  • TBM Lifetime$29.99
None

Tincture

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tea Brewing Master free?
Tea Brewing Master is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tincture free?
Tincture is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tea Brewing Master or Tincture have ads?
Neither Tea Brewing Master nor Tincture shows ads.

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