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Shelve your tins
Tap the teas you already own. Steepwise knows thirty styles — from Sencha to Shou Pu'er — and tracks how many grams are left.
Steepwise
Tea by lantern light
A timer that teaches you to taste. Steep by the clock. Then read the cup. Change one thing next time and see what moves.
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30 tea styles
64 flavour notes
5 tasting marks
°C / °F · ml / oz
How it works
Change one thing. Keep the rest still. Read what moved.
Steepwise is setup, not a slideshow. Tell it how you brew and what's in your cupboard, and it works out the leaf, heat and pours for you.
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Steep by the clock
Pot or short pours. Every infusion is timed on a ladder, and a gentle chime tells you when to pour.
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Read the cup
Mark five axes the same way every time and tag the notes you find. Each cup is kept in your journal.
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Walk a footpath
Guided experiments change one lever — heat, time or leaf — so you can see exactly what it does to your tea.
BodyWeight on the tongue. Water is 0, broth is 5.
SweetnessNatural sweetness, often after you swallow.
BrightnessLift and liveliness, a little like acidity.
GripDryness on the gums and cheeks. Astringency.
FinishHow long the taste stays once the cup is down.
Features
Everything a curious tea drinker needs
Five clearings in one quiet app: Steep, Trails, Palette, Grove and the Warden.
A steeping timer that knows your tea
Recipes for every style in both brewing modes — grams per 100 ml, first steep, step-up and number of pours — scaled to your usual vessel.
Five trails of footpaths
Three Fires, The Grip Line, Half and Double, Five Pours, Two Cups Unnamed… Each experiment ends with what changed between your cups.
A palette that lights up
64 flavour notes in eight families. Every note you find lights a square of your palette — and quests nudge you to taste further.
Grow a night grove
Every tea style you read plants a tree. Thirty styles, eight regions, from the Fern Glade to the Night Meadow.
Blind tastings with a friend
Hand the phone to your pourer. They brew cup A and cup B and hide the answer — you read both and name the tea.
Ask the Warden
An optional AI mentor. Ask why a cup went bitter, what to try with a tin, or which notes to hunt next — it only sees what you choose to share.
The night grove
Eight tea families, eight regions to explore
Brew from every corner of the forest and watch your grove fill in, one tree at a time.
Fern Glade
Low ferns, wet grass, the first light of spring leaf.
Birch Clearing
Pale trunks and quiet air. Soft, honeyed, slow to speak.
Mist Ridge
Fog on a high slope. Flowers and cream in the cup.
Ember Ridge
Charcoal warmth under the pines. Toast, stone, dark sugar.
Hollow Oaks
Broad old oaks. Malt, cocoa, dried fruit.
Old Cedar Deep
Resin and camphor in the deepest stand of cedar.
Peat Hollow
Earth after rain, peat and old wood.
Night Meadow
An open meadow at night. Flowers and leaves, no tea bush.
Every note you find lights a square of your palette.
Your journal stays on your phone
No name, email or account. No analytics, advertising or tracking. Tins, cups and footpaths live in one private database on your device — there is no server holding a copy.
Contact
Say hello over a cup
Found a bug, missing a favourite tea style, or have an idea for a new footpath? We'd love to hear it.
Write to us directly at
shainaqeglovergqt17@gmail.com
Light the lantern
Put the kettle on. Your first cup is the first tree in your grove.
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