CHALOG vs Brewory

Quietly log today's bowl of tea. CHALOG is a calm tasting journal for matcha and Japanese tea. Capture how each cup tasted — in a photo and a few words — and let your own preferences take shape over time. Turn "that was good" into something you can actually remember. Record umami, sweetness, bitterness, astringency and finish on a simple radar, and your next tea — and how to brew it — slowly becomes clearer. WHAT YOU CAN DO - Tasting notes: five flavors plus froth, aroma and an overall rating, shown on a radar - Quick record: save a bowl in seconds with tea, rating, photo and a note - Photos: crop to a clean square to capture your bowl and sweets beautifully - Brew guides & timer: whisk matcha, or steep sencha, gyokuro, hojicha and genmaicha — guided step by step, from prep to the last drop - Collection: organize teas by name, tea house and origin, with sorting and favorites - Stats: totals, streaks, a taste radar, origins and aroma trends to look back on - Year card: sum up your year of tea in one shareable image - Reminders: a gentle nudge to make time for a cup WHO IT'S FOR - Anyone who loves matcha or Japanese tea and wants to remember each cup - Beginners who want guided steps for brewing sencha or hojicha well - People discovering their favorite teas and origins over time - Anyone who enjoys a quiet habit kept with photos and notes PRIVACY & PEACE OF MIND CHALOG works fully offline. Everything is stored on your device, no account required. No data is sent to external servers, and no tracking is used. Your tea journal stays in your hands alone.

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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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.