Tea App Reviews

Not recommending.

only works when the iPhone interface in English

Often crashes. Very annoying to type same things many times because of the crash. iPhone 5 Couldnt find tea encyclopedia tab. Where is it? Also no export feature, your tea journal dies with your phone :)

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

Seems like something is missing. Images in the App Store shows an encyclopedia in this app for tea types. The version I downloaded has no encyclopedia button or encyclopedia as shown in the market here.

Hi there! I like this app but I just bought it really for the encyclopedia as well but the button is not appearing at the bottom of my screen?? Just wondering if anyone else had this issue??

Im new to the Tea brewing arena and this app is helping me understand how differences in Tea types change the outcome. Great UI start. Ready for future updates

Rather than have a database of teas to refer to, it requires manual input of information. “Intelligent” analysis of brewing time is debatable since most of that info is available with the tea as well as the quantities required for brewing. My expectations of this app were expert-approved brewing methods, etc for various teas. In reality, its just a glorified timer...

I love tea! If you experiment with making the best teas ever with measurements and time you will love this. It would be nice if you made an update so the timer could go up to an hour or more. The history and notes section is great. What would make this app better "the ability to add photos for every tea you make!"

As a tea-connoisseur, I have to say some of these pre-loaded brewing instructions are way off, especially on how much tea to add to a brew. I would like to be able to set my own default settings. And the tea list needs a better way of organizing it. (I own over 47 teas, and a single list organized by title or vendor doesnt cut it.) Maybe add folders by tea type. Asides from that, integration with websites such as steepster and tumblr would be a plus, though not top of the list. All-in-all, BEAUTIFUL app, but needs to pay more attention to whats important: tea, and the processes used to brew that perfect cup.

Finally. A tea app that gets me.

ETA: you CAN delete things! I discovered this accidental while trying to wipe off my screen. To delete an entry, slide your finger sideways across the entry you wish to delete. A delete button will appear. I think being able to delete things changes my review from three stars to four. I like this app but it could use a few improvements. The biggest problem with this app seems to be that you cant delete teas and brews. You cant remove the pre-loaded sample listing from your teas. You can edit the sample listing to be one of your own teas, but the sample brew and rating cant be removed. If you add a tea and then toss it out or give it away or something, you can only reduce the amount in the app, you cant remove it. Other reviewers have complained that there arent enough tea categories, but thats not a big deal to me. Most teas will fit under black, green, white, red, etc...having separate categories for flavored or powdered isnt that critical. You can just put matcha under Japanese green and then adjust the time, temperature and amount however you want. Another minor complaint is that the screen will not rotate to landscape view. The keyboard is a bit larger in landscape than in portrait so it would be easier to type in tea info.

While it is nice to track how much tea I have and the steeping timer works nicely, I would really like to be able to track my teas better. I want to be able to say what I thought of each tea and if I would buy again. This gives you a note area but it appears steep by steep, not by tea and you cant get to it easily.

I love this app. However, I want to be able to record multiple infusions farther apart and I notice that the amount left is not always accurate. A few fixes and its there.

Id love to see some of the small suggestions others have recommended. That said, the biggest thing for me is that it still doesnt have iPhone 5 support. Pie in the sky request? Make this universal (for iPad) with iCloud support. That would be awesome! All that said, given the lack of updates, I have a feeling this app is abandoned. Shame.

I love the catalog, searchable, the different brewing parameters. Super easy, nice to look at, very useful. Would love if it were iPad universal with iCloud, but other than that, its really excellent.

I have a collection of loose tea that I blend before brewing. Id love to be able to combined teas so that I can determine which blend is best. Also the app does a poor job inputting how much tea I am using. When I add a tea I can use bags but when I try an brew I do not have that option. Needs updates. Right now it is just a timer with a notepad.

I find this a frustrating but nevertheless useful app. It is frustrating because it is extremely difficult to edit anything, including past events. For example, if you brew a tea for 30 seconds rather than the recommended 4 minutes, you cannot go back after the fact and change this in the log. Ditto for changing stock levels, etc. It is also far too cumbersome to get to the edit screen for already entered teas; typically it goes to the brewing screen for some reason. Also desirable is some sort of database or basic information, preferably with photos (perhaps in an iPad version). Right now it is really, really basic, especially for the price (essentially an advanced timer). Finally, please reformat for the iPhone 5 screen.

Ive been waiting patiently for this update for awhile now, but it was 100% worth the wait! Beautiful redesign, great new features, and the continued simplicity that Ive come to expect from Tea and the team that has been diligent in keeping it awesome. Download this app now if you value tea at all!

Buy this app just for the new encyclopedia, admire the other features while youre at it. If you like tea a lot, you will like this app a lot too.