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Teafinity vs TeaMaster
Choose TeaMaster if you are on iOS and one of its five interface languages is the one you think in. Choose Teafinity if you want a fully localized app, 176 teas with published brewing data, a Gong Fu ladder, photo identification and an Android version too.
The short version
- TeaMaster is the only app in this comparison that took multilingual users seriously from the start — five languages, including Ukrainian and Russian, which almost nobody serves.
- It is also iOS-only and marketed on a single page with anchors and an FAQ, so most of what it does is invisible until you install it.
- Teafinity treats every language as its own separate, indexable experience, and publishes every tea's brewing numbers on the open web.
Teafinity vs TeaMaster, row by row
| Feature | Teafinity | TeaMaster |
|---|---|---|
| Tea database | 176 core teas plus 80 seasonal, each with its own brewing data Browse the library Track what you own | No published tea count; the single landing page does not list a catalogue |
| AI identification | Yes — point the camera at leaves or packaging and the app names the tea How the tea ID works | Not advertised on their site |
| Timer (multi-infusion?) | Yes — a Western timer and a full Gong Fu ladder that counts each infusion separately How the timer works | Timing is part of the app, but nothing beyond the landing page's FAQ documents multi-infusion support |
| Journal | Yes — completed steeps are logged automatically, with favourites and a collection How the journal works | Not documented on the landing page |
| Languages | English, German, French, Dutch, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese, each a separate app experience | 5 — English, Ukrainian, Spanish, French and Russian, all presented inline on one page |
| Platforms | iPhone (with a home-screen widget and an Apple Watch companion) and Android | iOS |
| Price model | Free tier with 30 full teas and the timer · $29.99/year after a free trial · $3.99/week See exactly what's free | Not stated on the landing page |
What TeaMaster publishes on its own site, checked August 2026. “Not published” means we could not verify it from their pages — not that the feature is missing.
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Where TeaMaster is genuinely better
Ukrainian and Russian speakers are served. Teafinity does not offer either language. If that is the language you want your tea app in, TeaMaster is the answer on this page and we cannot pretend otherwise.
Five languages from a small indie app is real work. Localization is expensive and thankless, and most single-developer apps ship English and stop. TeaMaster did not.
The FAQ answers things up front. Putting the awkward questions on the landing page instead of hiding them in a help centre is a decision we respect enough to have copied on our own support page.
Where Teafinity is different
Every language, a real experience of its own
Teafinity is localized into English, German, French, Dutch, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese — not just the buttons, but every tea name, description, origin note and tasting note. Each language is its own set of pages on this site as well as its own app experience, so a Japanese search for 蒸らし時間 finds a Japanese page. Stacking five languages on one URL, as TeaMaster does, means none of them is findable on its own.
Published numbers for 176 teas
Temperature in °C and °F, grams per 250 ml, steep time, caffeine in milligrams and a re-steep count — for all 176 teas, published free on this website — plus a full Gong Fu ladder for the 90 that carry one — all 29 oolongs, all 16 pu-erhs and all 15 whites among those 176. You can verify the data before you spend anything.
Android, a watch app and a camera
Teafinity runs on iPhone and Android, with an Apple Watch companion and a home-screen widget on iOS. And photo identification turns an unlabelled tin into a brewing plan — the feature that most often decides this comparison.
Which one should you install?
Choose TeaMaster if…
- You want the app in Ukrainian, Russian or Spanish.
- You are on iOS and want something small and focused.
- You are happy to evaluate from the App Store listing.
Choose Teafinity if…
- You want German, Dutch, Japanese, Korean or Simplified Chinese.
- You are on Android, or you want the Apple Watch companion.
- You want per-tea brewing data and a Gong Fu ladder you can check before installing.
TeaMaster and Teafinity are chasing the same insight from opposite ends — that tea is not an English-speaking hobby. They got to Ukrainian before we did. We got to Japanese, Korean and Chinese, 176 teas and a camera. Pick the overlap that matches your shelf, and if it is ours, start here.
How we put these tables together
Every competitor cell describes what that company publishes on its own website, checked in August 2026. Where a cell says not published, not documented or not stated, it means exactly that — we could not verify it from their own pages — and never that the feature is missing. Apps change; landing pages change more slowly.
We do not install competitors, time their alarms and write up the results. That kind of comparison ages badly and tends to flatter whoever wrote it. We compare published claims against published claims, and we publish ours in full — all 176 teas, with their parameters, are on this website for free.
Teafinity's own figures come from the app itself: 176 core teas plus 80 seasonal, 30 of them free forever, 4.9★ from 33 ratings on the US App Store.
Teafinity times every infusion for you
The app loads this tea's exact schedule, rings even in your pocket, and logs every session — free on iPhone and Android.
The other comparisons
App names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. This page is written and published by the makers of Teafinity and is, unavoidably, not a neutral source — which is why every competitor section starts with what they do better.