Tea app for iPhone and iPad
Tea is the ultimate tea companion. Learn about teas from all over the world with Teas Encyclopedia, including preparation tips, signs of quality, tasting notes, harvest seasons and more. Brew the perfect cup every time with Teas smart tea timer and note taker. Whether youre looking up what "Sencha" is when youre at a cafe or refining your oolongs steep time to perfection, Teas got you covered.
**Features**
• Tea Encyclopedia: Learn about teas from all over the world with Teas all-new Encyclopedia: where theyre grown, how theyre made, preparation tips, signs of quality, and more! Tea can now recognize over 500 tea names.
• Tea to Try: Teas Encyclopedia integrates with Reminders to allow you to create a list of teas to try.
• Smart Tea Timer: Teas terrific timer remembers your favorite brew times for each of your teas.
• Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Integration: With the tap of a button, you can have Tea share your tasting notes and photos with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
• Teapot Picker: Teas teapot picker lets you choose which teapot youll use to brew your tea, and can even automatically tell you how much tea youll need for that teapot.
• Notes and Rating System: After your timer is up, Tea lets you save tasting notes, take a photo and rate your brew. Tea even keeps track of your brewing time, tea amount, and temperature, so that you can hone in on the perfect brew for each of your teas.
• Default Brew Suggestions: Not all teas are meant for use with boiling water. Tea comes pre-loaded with brew suggestions (temperature, time, leaf amount) for over 200 tea names and 12 tea types, all prepared by tea expert Thomas Smith.
• Automatic Unit Conversion: Teas Set Brew screen automatically converts units for you. If your teas temperature instructions come in degrees Celsius, for example, Tea automatically converts it to Fahrenheit if that is your preferred unit.
• Inventory Tracker: When you input a new tea, Tea automatically calculates how many brews you can make with that tea. Each time you use Teas timer, Tea recalculates how many brews you have remaining. Be in full command of your tea inventory.
• Multiple Infusion Support: Tea intelligently counts your tea infusions and preloads your notes with infusion number.
• Shake to Shuffle: Cant decide on which tea to have? Simply give your iOS device a shake, and Tea will select one at random for you!
Pros and cons of Tea app for iPhone and iPad
Tea app good for
Really great and beautifully designed app. Its a joy to use! But since the new update i can only choose Teabags in the brewing menu and not gramm or tablespoom anymore.
Downloaded the app and used it to brew my first cup of Tea this morning. The app is very easy and straightforward to use. I love that it keeps track of my inventory of Tea as well as all of my tasting notes.
For those who might balk at the $4.99 price tag: Dont! This app is easily worth $9.99 once you look at all the features and what it has to offer.
Ive tried a few other Tea timer apps out there and they dont even compare to this.
The only faults that I have found are:
-when sound is off the timer doesnt vibrate when finished
- there is no way to skip the timer when backlogging Tea
All the positives out way those negatives by far. Still deserves 5 stars. I am so happy that I found this app to help me make the perfect cup of Tea.
Super sleek and amazing - but like all new things theres a few bugs that need fixing.
As someone who was just starting to get into loose-leaf Teas I was in the market for a good app to help me keep track of my steep times. I had tried a few other apps similar to this one (most of them free) and had yet to find one that was the perfect balance of function and design. I was immediately struck by how beautiful this app was and while at first I thought the asking price might have been a little steep (pun intended) I decided to give it a shot anyways. At the very least itd look pretty.
I was not disappointed.
The timer feature works just fine. But its all the other features of the app that really make it stand out. The inventory feature alone is reason to buy the app, this combined with the history, recommended steep times, and the elegant and simple timer this is the perfect example of a beautiful app thats functionality is just as good as its looks.
Itd be great to see the developers put out similar apps for things like Coffee, Wine, Beer, etc.
Seriously, love it.
One minor qualm: the icon is kind of ugly compared to the rest of the application.
Its like having an amazing bank of all the Tea you tasted. Everything is really clear and easily understandable. You also have a lot of possibility to try other measurement/ infusion time, etc.
A must have if you love Tea!
Some bad moments
It is really an eyecandy app, but the ammount of Tea calculator is buggy and it wont let me add bag type Tea, and if I try editting the ammount it just ignores me. Not as worthy as I thought it would be. Disappointed.
This a really isnt well designed at all. Maybe its because I use bagged Tea mostly, but I found in incredibly frustrating to navigate and to actually save settings. From the description I thought that it would come pre-loaded with the information that you needed for the aforementioned 200 Teas. Overall it isnt a good buy; glad I got it on sale.
Nice interface, but unstable: itll crash when starting a new brew, and if it doesnt, settings will likely be reset. Timer implementation isnt all that great either: itll work if youre looking at your phone or if your sound is on, but beyond that, chances are that youll miss the timer. Tried my best to like it, but nope.
I added some Teas on my IPad as its easier to type on than the iPhone, expecting that these Teas would show up on the iPhone as well. They did not. Ive tried every way I can think of to sync them but it simply wont work.
Very frustrating.
It was a good app but now there is no Encyclopedia shown on iphone 5s
WAS An excellent app before they decided to remove the Tea encyclopedia. Worked for me great in a trip to Japan , but now without the feature its kind of useless
