ChaTime Tea Timer vs Steep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
ChaTime Tea Timer
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ChaTime is a calm tea timer and brew journal made for daily tea and gongfu tea. Choose a tea from your inventory, start with a recommended temperature and steep time, and let ChaTime guide each brew. Multi-infusion timers help you keep rhythm for gongfu tea, while simple presets make green tea, oolong, black tea, white tea, and puer easy to brew. After each session, ChaTime saves a tea record. Review your recent brews, note the taste and mood, and create a polished tea card to save to Photos or share with friends. Features: - Tea inventory and basic tea presets - Recommended temperature and steep time - Multi-infusion gongfu tea timer - Tea journal and brew history - Shareable tea cards and Photos saving - Chinese and English language support Free users can continue with 2 tea sessions per day. ChaTime Premium unlocks unlimited timers and custom tea recipes. Terms of Use (EULA): 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
ChaTime Tea Timer 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. ChaTime Tea Timer sells 1 in-app purchase, 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 | ChaTime Tea Timer | 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 | 26.4 | 26.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chia Ler Khor | Justin Pruskowski |
In-app purchases
ChaTime Tea Timer
- ChaTime Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
Steep
- Steep Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
- Steep Pro Annual$14.991 Year









