Comparison

ChaTime Tea Timer vs Brewory

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

Head to head
About

ChaTime Tea Timer

Features
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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/

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Brewory

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Brew better tea and coffee at home with a brewing guide, timer and tasting journal that works completely offline. Brewory gives you the water temperature, the coffee-to-water ratio and the right steep or brew time for every cup โ€” then runs the timer for you. No account, no subscription, no sign-up. Just open the app and brew. Whether you are learning pour over coffee, dialing in espresso, steeping loose leaf tea or starting a batch of cold brew overnight, Brewory turns guesswork into a repeatable recipe you can trust morning after morning. DIAL IN EVERY CUP - Pick a tea or coffee and instantly see the recommended water temperature, strength ratio, grind size and time. - A built-in ratio calculator turns your cup count into the exact grams of coffee or leaf and the right amount of water โ€” a simple coffee to water ratio calculator that scales from one cup to a full carafe. - Big, readable brew timer with an alarm and haptics, plus keep-screen-awake so your phone never sleeps mid-pour. A REAL TIMER FOR TEA AND COFFEE - Multi-infusion steep timer for tea: green, white, oolong, black, pu-erh and herbal tisanes, with successive infusions that get a little longer each time, the way gongfu tea is meant to be brewed. - Single-tap brew timer for pour over, French press, AeroPress, espresso, moka pot, Chemex, Turkish and cold brew. - A clean, distraction-free timer screen โ€” no clutter while your steep counts down. A BREWING GUIDE THAT TEACHES YOU - An offline coffee brewing guide and tea brewing app in one, with original, easy steps, grind size, temperature and ratio for each method. - Convert between Celsius and Fahrenheit, grams and ounces, millilitres and fluid ounces. - Search the whole library to compare methods and find your next favourite. YOUR PERSONAL TASTING JOURNAL - Save your own recipes and tasting notes for coffee and tea, rate every cup and attach a photo. - Repeat a saved brew with one tap so your best results are never lost. - Keep a shelf of beans and teas with roast or harvest dates and a freshness indicator, so you always know what to drink next. SEE YOUR HABITS - A beautiful insights tab with a consistency heatmap, this-week-versus-last comparisons, brews by weekday and by time of day, your most-brewed drinks and personal records. - Unlock around forty achievements as you explore new styles and build a daily brewing ritual. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE BY DESIGN - Everything is stored locally on your device. There is no server and no account. - Export and import your journal and shelf as a JSON backup whenever you like. - A private tea timer and coffee brewing guide with no subscription and no ads-first nagging. PERFECT FOR - Home baristas dialing in pour over, espresso and AeroPress recipes. - Tea lovers who want a proper steep timer for loose leaf tea and multiple infusions. - Anyone who wants a simple, offline brewing app to make a consistent cup every day. Brewing values are general starting points โ€” adjust temperature, ratio and time to your taste, your beans or leaves, and your water. Then save what works and brew it again tomorrow. Download Brewory and make every cup count.

Screenshots

ChaTime Tea Timer4 screens
Brewory4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brewory at none against ChaTime Tea Timer's 1. Brewory also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.4). ChaTime Tea Timer's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. ChaTime Tea Timer sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.99 per month. Brewory asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 2 level
ChaTime Tea Timer versus Brewory: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChaTime Tea TimerBrewory
PriceFreeFree
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS26.413.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size38 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChia Ler KhorFerran Espuna

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ChaTime Tea Timer

Subscriptions1
  • ChaTime Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
None

Brewory

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ChaTime Tea Timer free?
ChaTime Tea Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Brewory free?
Brewory is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ChaTime Tea Timer or Brewory have ads?
Brewory shows ads; ChaTime Tea Timer does not.

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