Comparison

tealytics vs Pekoe

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

Head to head
About

tealytics

Discover your unique tea preferences and track your brewing journey. Explore tea origins, varieties, and brewing styles tailored to your taste. Build a personalized tea passport and never forget a favorite brew.

Highlights
  • Personalized taste learning
  • Tea origin and heritage exploration
  • Customizable brewing suggestions
  • Tea passport with achievements
  • Detailed tea habit analysis
  • Track tea purchases and taste notes
Features
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Your taste is unique. So is your tea story. While you drink, tealytics learns what you brew, where it comes from, whether you actually like it and how your taste shifts over time. Discover the world of tea, tailored to you. From origins and heritage to varieties and brewing styles, tealytics starts with a deep knowledge of tea. Then it learns from you, gradually turning a world of tea knowledge into something that feels made just for you. Take a deeper look at your tea habits. Curious what you have been drinking lately? Which regions you return to most? What your favourites have in common? See the patterns in your own tea habits, and how they compare to what the tealytics community is drinking, loving and discovering. Build your tea passport. Map where your teas come from, fill your tea passport, collect achievements and see how much of the tea world you have already explored, and what is still waiting for you. The Teadex stamps 202 varieties as you brew them. The origin map covers 523 places across 52 countries, 143 of them written up properly. Never forget a tea you loved. tealytics tracks the teas worth remembering: where you got them, what you paid, how you brewed them and how they tasted. So you can find your favourites again when you are ready for more. Brewing that follows you. Every tea arrives with a suggested temperature, time and leaf. Disagree with it twice in a row and tealytics reads that as a trajectory rather than a slip and follows your numbers for the rest of the session instead of its own curve. There is no settings screen for this and no profile to fill in. You just brew. Connoisseur is an optional subscription, monthly, yearly or as a founding member, and it unlocks label scanning, advanced analytics and more. Payment goes through your Apple ID and the subscription renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the period ends. Terms of Use: https://www.tealytics.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.tealytics.app/privacy

About

Pekoe

Features
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Pekoe is a private tea timer, personal recipe book, and tasting journal, for iPhone and iPad. Every tea opens on its exact recipe already set: 35 teas from 25 regions, each with its temperature, leaf, water, steeps. No account, no ads. Multiple infusions, gongfu style: each steep keeps its own time, and the next begins right where the last one ended. Brew, taste, judge in one tap, too light, just right, too strong, and Pekoe proposes one clear change for next time, in plain words. Accept it, and your recipe quietly becomes yours. THE LOOP • Every tea opens on its exact recipe, temperature, leaf, water, steeps • A timer built for tea: multiple infusions, and a Live Activity on your Lock Screen and Dynamic Island • After the cup, one tap: Too light / Just right / Too strong • Too strong, but how? Bitter or heavy: the nuance picks the lever, water or leaf, and the advice says why. Never a black box • Next time, that tea remembers. "Your recipe", it says. It means it. • The recipe thread: every adjustment you kept, drawn on the tea's page, your taste as a line you can read • The tea page opens on the recipe, then says what the tea remembers of you: your last verdict and the change you kept, in words ONE PEKOE, EVERY SCREEN • On iPad, the brew screen opens into a full brewing bench, the dial on one side; steeps, ideal window, and origin on the other • Widgets bring the kettle closer, start your last tea from the Home Screen or Lock Screen • °C or °F: one setting, and every recipe, slider, and cooling curve follows • Your journal, teas, and recipes sync privately through your own iCloud. Never a Pekoe server. THE ATLAS • The world of tea has a tab of its own: every region drawn from real geography, each with its story • Every one of the 25 regions now wears a painted card, gouache on paper, and says so: each is labelled as the illustration it is • "In harvest this month" and "in harvest soon": see which of your teas are being plucked, all year round • Gardens on the map: real tea gardens to visit, region by region • Blends show every origin, Earl Grey maps both its Anhui black and its Calabrian bergamot • Paintings from the world's great museums, all public domain YOUR TEAS • A curated catalog of 35 teas from 25 real growing regions: origin, process, harvest calendar, and the story of each leaf • Five herbal infusions join the leaf: lavender from Valensole, linden from the Baronnies, peppermint from Milly, hibiscus, and ginger. Each with its own recipe, and a map of where the plant comes from • How each tea is made, drawn: twenty-one gestures in a single ink line, from withering to firing • Every tea wears the color of its cup, celadon to copper • Theine at a glance, in words, never milligrams • Add your own teas in seconds: a name and a family are enough • Find any tea from Spotlight, Pekoe answers before it opens YOUR JOURNAL • Every session stamped and searchable, parameters, verdict, stars, notes • Edit anything, even the date. Last night's forgotten pot has a place • Deleted by mistake? Undo. Six seconds of forgiveness YOURS, FULL STOP • No account. No ads. No tracking. No Pekoe server • Your data lives on your devices and in your private iCloud, where Pekoe cannot see it • Export your whole journal as JSON or CSV anytime, and restore it just as easily • Something to tell us? One line in Settings opens a mail you write and send yourself. Pekoe sends nothing on its own Siri speaks tea, in English and French: "Start a brew in Pekoe", "Brew again in Pekoe", "Just boiled in Pekoe". And Pekoe itself speaks English, French, Japanese, and Arabic, fully right to left, down to the dial. Pekoe remembers how you brew, so every cup gets better.

Screenshots

tealytics4 screens
Pekoe4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pekoe at none against tealytics's 3. tealytics's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.5). On price, update cadence, 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. tealytics sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Pekoe asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

tealytics ships an update every 10 days, Pekoe every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
tealytics versus Pekoe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParametertealyticsPekoe
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB19 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPhilipp BochmannIzuba

In-app purchases

3 purchases

tealytics

Subscriptions3
  • Connoisseur (monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Connoisseur (founding member)$14.991 Year
  • Connoisseur (annual)$44.991 Year
None

Pekoe

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is tealytics free?
tealytics is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pekoe free?
Pekoe is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do tealytics or Pekoe have ads?
Neither tealytics nor Pekoe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, tealytics or Pekoe?
tealytics ships an update every 10 days, and Pekoe every 2 weeks. Most recently, tealytics was updated on October 31, 2026 and Pekoe on October 28, 2026.

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