Tea Brewing Master vs Steep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Tea Brewing Master
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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/
Steep
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Steep is the tea app for people who care how their tea is brewed. Set a precise timer for green, black, oolong, white, or puerh โ with smart presets for temperature and time. In gongfu mode, Steep tracks each short infusion in sequence, auto-bumping the next steep and counting down right on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island, so your hands stay on the gaiwan. Build your stash by photographing a tin or pouch โ Steep reads the label and fills in type, origin, vendor, and harvest year for you to confirm. See your whole collection at a glance, track quantity and value, and mark aging puerh cakes you're saving. Journal every session: log each infusion, dictate tasting notes hands-free, and let on-device intelligence organize them into aroma, body, and finish. Suggestions, never appraisals โ your palate stays the authority. When your shelf is worth showing off, export a beautiful tea-shelf card to share with your community. Everything syncs privately across your devices with iCloud. Nothing leaves your phone for our servers. Free to brew with built-in timers and a starter stash. Steep Pro unlocks unlimited teas and sessions, label scanning, AI notes, value tracking, and unbranded cards โ monthly, annual, or a one-time lifetime unlock. Steep your tea. Remember it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://brainrash.com/privacy
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Verdict
Tea Brewing Master and Steep are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Tea Brewing Master sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Steep sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Tea Brewing Master | Steep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cederic Schmid | Justin Pruskowski |
In-app purchases
Tea Brewing Master
- TBM Monthly$2.991 Month
- TBM Annual3 Days trial$12.991 Year
- TBM Lifetime$29.99
Steep
- Steep Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Steep Pro Annual$14.991 Year









