Teafinity: Tea Timer & AI ID

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About this app

Guessing ruins good leaf. Teafinity is a tea timer with the numbers already in it. Sencha at 175°F, 90 seconds. English Breakfast at 212°F, 4 minutes. The brew timer and 30 teas are free. The full library and the AI tea identifier are the paid part, called Premium.

FREE, WITH NO SIGN-UP

30 teas with the brewing data already entered: water temperature in °F and °C, steep time, and how much leaf to how much water. English Breakfast, Earl Grey, Darjeeling, Sencha, Dragon Well, Tie Guan Yin, Silver Needle, Shou Pu-erh, Chamomile, Rooibos and 19 more. Matcha is free too, at 160°F with its leaf ratio. The free teas cover all six kinds: black, green, white, oolong, pu-erh and herbal tea. It works like a steeping chart that sets the tea timer for you, so you are not hunting through a tea chart mid-steep. Each of the app's seven languages has its own free 30; this is the English one.

The brew timer, Western style. Pick a tea, tap once, put the phone down. With notifications allowed, the steep timer keeps counting while you do something else, then tells you the steep is done. On current Android 16 and later, with Live Updates allowed, the brew can show in the status bar and on the lock screen. Older versions get an ongoing notification with Pause, Resume and Stop. The finish time is an exact alarm, so Doze does not push it back.

Gongfu tea brewing, infusion by infusion. Seven of the free 30 brew gongfu: Sencha, Dragon Well, Jasmine Green, Tie Guan Yin, Milk Oolong, Silver Needle and Shou Pu-erh. Each infusion gets its own steep time, so Sencha runs 30 seconds, then 40, then 50.

Any cup size. Set the water in ml or oz and the app works out the grams of loose leaf tea.

Favorites, the last 20 teas you viewed, and a brew history of your last 100 timed infusions on this phone.

Recommendations matched to the taste profile you set, and a short tea insight each day.

No account, no email, no ads. The 30 teas do not expire.

WHAT PREMIUM ADDS

Everything in this section needs a subscription. Eligible new subscribers can start the yearly plan with a 7-day free trial.

The full library. 176 core teas: 33 black, 40 green, 15 white, 29 oolong, 16 pu-erh and 43 herbal, plus seasonal teas that rotate through the year.

Identify tea by photo, a Premium feature. Point the camera at tea leaves or a packet. The tea identifier suggests up to 3 matches from the 176 core teas and opens the brewing data for the one you pick. If none fits, you can request the tea.

Gongfu timers across the whole library. 90 teas carry a gongfu schedule, and 54 start with a rinse.

Tea requests. Ask for a tea the library does not have yet.

COMMON QUESTIONS

How long do I steep green tea? It depends on the tea. Sencha: 175°F (80°C), 90 seconds, 3 g of leaf per 250 ml.

How long should black tea steep? English Breakfast: 212°F (100°C), 4 minutes, 3 g per 250 ml. Darjeeling: 195°F (90°C), 2 minutes 30 seconds.

What temperature does oolong tea need? Tie Guan Yin: 195°F (90°C). For gongfu: 7 g per 100 ml, a rinse, then 12 timed infusions.

How long do I steep chamomile tea? 6 minutes at 203°F (95°C), 3 g per 250 ml.

What do I get without paying? The tea brewing timer, a plain countdown, 30 teas with full brewing data, favorites, recently viewed teas, your brew history, a daily insight and recommendations. It is not a trial, so there is nothing to cancel.

Can it identify tea for free? No. The tea identifier is part of Premium.

What does Premium cost? Premium is a yearly plan or a weekly plan. Google Play shows the price in your own currency before anything is charged.

How do I cancel? In Google Play, at any time. If you get the trial, the yearly plan renews automatically when it ends unless you cancel first.

WHO IT IS FOR

People who buy loose leaf tea worth brewing properly and are tired of digging the numbers out of a blog post halfway through a steep. Gongfu and oolong drinkers who want every infusion timed. And, with Premium, anyone holding a tea they cannot name.

Ratings and reviews

This app is $47.99 AUD per year. Why? Edit; the pictures are wrong, they look ai generated. If the pictures are wrong I seriously doubt the identification feature works. What does 'daily insights' even mean? 120 teas isn't an impressive library.

Most features are inaccessible unless you pay. The price is unreasonably high. It's tea, guys.

i love on how the UI is same vibe with the tea simple and neat and the recos of the tea is good, I'm researching about tea recos until I stumble on this one, I look down on this app first until I've seen the tips of it and the health benefits that the tea gives

What’s new

• Live Updates for the brewing timer: on Android 16 and newer, the countdown appears on your lock screen and in the status bar while the tea steeps. Earlier Android versions keep the usual timer notification
• Overall stability improvements