Mighty Timer vs Gongfu Tea Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mighty Timer
Brew the perfect cup of tea with this elegant application. It provides precise temperature, time, and tea amount recommendations for various types of tea. Customize profiles, create your own blends, and control the brewing process directly from your Apple Watch.
- Brew perfect tea with precise settings
- Modify existing tea profiles
- Create custom tea blends
- Control brewing from Apple Watch
- Light and dark theme options
- Customizable units (F/C) and alarm sounds
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Mighty Timer is the most beautiful way to brew your perfect cup of tea. Available on the Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad, Mighty Timer knows what temperature, time, and amount of tea you need for the perfect cup. Features • Modify any tea profile to brew your perfect cup • Create custom teas for your taste preference • Fully control your brew with the Apple Watch • Choose a light or dark theme; or let Mighty Timer automatically adjust based on your screen brightness • Customize your app: select between fº and cº, favorite the teas you love the most, pick a quirky alarm sound (martian gun, anyone?) Happy brewing! - Mighty Timer
Gongfu Tea Timer
Master traditional Chinese tea ceremonies with precise steep timing for various tea types. This app offers pre-configured settings and custom profiles to ensure perfect results for every brew, including Lock Screen and Dynamic Island notifications.
- Pre-configured timing for 5 tea types
- Multiple rounds with adjusted steep times
- Rinse step support
- Custom tea profile creation
- Lock Screen timer
- Dynamic Island support
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Master the art of gongfu tea brewing with precise timing for every steep. Gongfu Tea Timer guides you through the traditional Chinese tea ceremony with optimized steep times for different tea types. Whether you're brewing delicate green tea or robust pu-erh, get perfect results every time. FEATURES: • Pre-configured timing for 5 tea types: Green, Black, Oolong, White, and Pu-erh • Multiple rounds with automatically adjusted steep times • Rinse step for teas that benefit from it • Additional steep generation for extended sessions • Create and save custom tea profiles LIVE ACTIVITIES: • See your timer on the Lock Screen • Dynamic Island support for iPhone 14 Pro and newer • Get alerts when each round completes without opening the app DESIGNED FOR GONGFU: Unlike generic kitchen timers, this app understands gongfu brewing. Each tea type has carefully calibrated times that increase with each steep, following traditional gongfu methodology. Perfect for tea enthusiasts who want consistent, delicious results from their gongfu sessions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Gongfu Tea Timer at every 2 weeks against Mighty Timer's every 5 months. Gongfu Tea Timer also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Mighty Timer's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 5) and device support (4 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Mighty Timer against 5.0 for Gongfu Tea Timer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mighty Timer has 1.1K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Mighty Timer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Gongfu Tea Timer's.
Mighty Timer ships an update every 5 months, Gongfu Tea Timer every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mighty Timer | Gongfu Tea Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.1K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sprout Yard Mobile Inc. | RAYMOND LIU LUO |
Customer experience
Mighty Timer
Gongfu Tea Timer
Bugs and requests
Mighty Timer
Reported bugs
3 issues- Preset times not accurate for some teas
- Compatibility issues with iOS 15+ and Apple Watch
- Favorites filter not working as expected
Requested features
6 requests- Add water volume parameter
- Provide more tea type presets
- Include music or melodies for timer
- Add a notes section for each tea
- Implement multiple timers functionality
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- Bring back Apple Watch complications
Gongfu Tea Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mighty Timer
No in-app purchases
Gongfu Tea Timer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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