Track every cup. Remember every brew.

The notebook you never keep

Serious tea drinkers all arrive at the same idea: write it down. Which sencha was the good one, whether 85 °C really was better than 80 °C, how the pu-erh tasted on the fourth infusion. Almost nobody keeps that notebook, because the moment for writing is exactly the moment you are holding a hot cup.

So Teafinity writes the boring half for you. Time a steep and the session is logged: the tea, the brewing method, the temperature, the infusion you reached. You add the part only you can add — whether you liked it.

What a log is actually for

A tea journal is not nostalgia. It answers questions you will genuinely ask: which of the four oolongs on the shelf is worth reordering; whether that expensive gyokuro really is better than the everyday sencha; whether the cup that kept you awake was the 60 mg black tea at five in the afternoon.

Because every entry carries the tea's real numbers — temperature, timing, infusion count, caffeine in milligrams — patterns show up that memory alone never surfaces. Most people find at least one habit they did not know they had.

Favourites, notes and the teas you keep coming back to

Alongside the automatic log, you can mark favourites and keep your own notes on any tea in the library. Those notes sit with the tea's own data — origin, flavour profile, health benefits, pairings — so your verdict and the reference material live in the same place.

The app also serves daily tea insights: short, specific pieces about leaf, water and technique rather than filler. They are there to be read while something steeps, which is the one moment in the day when you are reliably waiting.

What the log looks like after a month

The first week is unremarkable — a list. By the fourth it usually says something. Most people find that three or four teas account for the great majority of their cups, that the expensive tin they were saving barely appears, and that their caffeine is bunched into a window nobody chose deliberately.

That is the point where a journal starts changing behaviour rather than merely recording it: reordering the tea you actually drink instead of the one you meant to, moving the 60 mg black tea an hour earlier, finally giving the neglected oolong a proper Gong Fu session instead of one rushed mug. None of it takes discipline, because the entries accumulate on their own every time you use the timer.

What it costs, in plain words

Journalling, favourites and your collection are part of the free tier, along with 30 curated teas with full brewing data, the brewing timer and daily insights. There is no trial countdown on any of it.

Premium adds the full 176-tea library plus 80 seasonal blends, Gong Fu multi-infusion timers, unlimited photo identification and tea requests: a 3-day free trial, then $29.99 a year or $3.99 a week, billed by Apple or Google and cancellable in two taps.