Nine Steep Tea Brew Timer

Nine Steeps is a private gongfu tea timer and brewing journal made for loose leaf tea, puerh, oolong, white tea, green tea, black tea, herbal infusions, and tasting flights.

Start a session, step through each steep, and write down what the tea is doing in your cup — while it's still fresh in your mind. Nine Steeps helps you remember timing, leaves, water, vessel, aroma, taste, and how a tea changes from one infusion to the next.

Free and Pro
- Free: the full 9-preset multi-infusion timer, dark mode, and the editorial brewing chrome — no ads, no nags, no time limits on the timer itself.
- Pro: one $1.99 one-time unlock — no subscription. Pro adds the Tea Cellar (vendor, harvest year, origin, grams owned/remaining), the structured tasting wheel (body, finish, mouthfeel, bitterness, astringency, sweetness), the brewing journal and saved-session library, the palate coach read-back, custom presets, and the export archive.

Per-infusion is the point
Most tea apps log a tea once. Nine Steeps logs every steep — because a good oolong at steep 3 is a different tea than the same leaves at steep 7. The tasting wheel + journal capture that arc, infusion by infusion, in a few seconds per pour.

Built for tea practice
- Multi-steep sessions without clutter
- Per-steep notes that survive the session
- A library you can return to weeks later
- Phone and tablet layouts; tablet shows the journal alongside the timer
- Works for gongfu cha, tasting flights, daily tea, and side-by-side comparisons
- Dark mode follows your system setting

Private by default
- No account system
- No advertising
- No analytics, no tracking, no telemetry
- No sale or sharing of personal data
- The one-time Pro purchase is processed by Google Play Billing — we never see card details
- Your notes stay in app-private storage unless you explicitly export them through Android's share sheet

Nine Steeps is made for tea drinkers who want a simple ritual tool: less spreadsheet, less social feed, more attention to the cup in front of you.