See what your tea history says about you.
A Today page that suggests what to drink, a journal you can search, a taste profile built from your own ratings, blind tastings, and a Year in Tea recap. Everything stays on your device, and you can print or export all of it.
What are you drinking today?
Today starts with the question that matters: what to brew. Pick at random from your cupboard or answer four quick questions about what sounds good. Below that, the teas you're dialing in, and then the numbers: sessions, your streak, and how your scores are trending.
Not sure what to drink today?
- Oolong keeps you going over many steeps
- Roasted oolong rewards a gongfu session
- Brew 03 of dialing it in
Hover a day to see which teas you had.
How it works
- 01
Not sure what to drink?
Tap Pick at random, or Help me choose and answer four questions: what sounds good (light and refreshing, rich and comforting, aromatic, or caffeine-free), a quick cup or a long gongfu session, hot or cold, and familiar or new.
- 02
Brew it
The suggestion comes with its recipe and the reasons it was picked. One tap opens the timer with everything set.
- 03
See the patterns
Scroll down for sessions today and this week, your streak, your average score, sessions per day, infusions and liters brewed, the styles you drink, your most-brewed teas, and whether you're a morning or evening tea drinker.
The details
Picks from your cupboard
Suggestions only include teas you still have leaf for, and they nudge you toward teas that are close to going stale.
Caffeine-free? Covered
Choose Caffeine-free and only teas that are naturally caffeine-free or decaffeinated are suggested. Mate and guayusa count as caffeinated, and you can mark any tea's caffeine yourself.
Any time range
Switch the charts between 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, and all time.
Plain rules, no AI
Every suggestion shows the reasons behind it, like 'Best within 15 days' or 'Your Everyday Perfect Brew, 9/10'.
Questions
What's a session, a steep, a recipe, and a cup?
A session is one time you brewed a tea, however many steeps. A steep (or infusion) is one pour of water over the leaf. A recipe is the settings: temperature, leaf, water, and steep times. A cup is what you drink; the charts count sessions, and volume adds up every steep.
Is it free?
Yes. Today, the charts, and the picker are free, like everything else in Steepdial.
Every brew, searchable.
Every brew you log lands in your journal with the recipe, score, notes, flavor words, and what Steepdial suggested next. Find what you thought of that oolong last spring, every cup you called drying, or every Yabukita you've brewed in your kyusu.
- Sep 20Dong Ding205°F · 6 g · 100 ml · 6 steeps“Roast calmer, fruit by steep 3. A little drying at the end.”7.5
- Jul 13Shizuoka Shincha165°F · 5 g · 150 ml · 1:00“Bitter, dry finish.”6
How it works
- 01
Brew and rate
Every logged brew is added automatically, grouped by month.
- 02
Search
Type any words. Steepdial searches tea names, vendors, harvests, styles, cultivars, origins, your notes and flavor words, suggestions, what you wanted to change, and the month.
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Filter
Narrow by origin, cultivar, season, method, vessel, water, score, or flavor word.
The details
Search that combines words
Every word must match, so 'oolong 2026' finds oolong brews from 2026.
Straight to the tea
Tap any entry to open that tea.
Unlimited history
Every brew is kept on every plan.
Questions
Can I delete a brew?
Yes, from the tea's Brews tab. The stash count updates to match.
Find out what you actually like.
Your taste profile is built from every cup you rate. It shows which styles you score highest, what your best cups taste like, your sweet-spot recipe for each style and method, and which water suits you, along with how many brews each pattern is based on.
Starting to take shape. Two brews isn't a pattern yet, so the roasted oolong line is marked as early.
- Sweetness4 / 2.5
- Umami4.5 / 4
- Body4 / 3
- Strength3 / 3.5
- Finish4 / 2.5
- Bitterness1.5 / 3
Green: brews you scored 8+. Gray: the rest.
How it works
- 01
Rate your brews
The overall score is enough to start. Taste ratings (sweetness, bitterness, and so on) make it sharper.
- 02
Open Taste profile
It appears after three rated brews and updates every time you rate another.
- 03
Use it
Buy more of what you love, try new teas in the family you rate highest, and start new teas from your sweet-spot recipe.
The details
Your best cups vs the rest
Taste ratings from brews you scored 8 or higher are compared with the rest, so you can see what your highest-rated brews have in common.
Sweet spots
The typical temperature, leaf ratio, and first-steep time of your best brews, for each style and method, since a gaiwan sencha and a mug sencha are different recipes.
Honest about sample size
Every pattern shows how many brews it's based on. Two brews is too early to say; it's starting to take shape after three, and steady after eight.
What you fix most
Which changes you ask for most often, like less bitter or more flavor. A clue about how you brew by default.
Worked out, not guessed
It's plain averages of your own ratings, worked out on your device. No AI.
Questions
How many brews does it need?
Three rated brews to start. It gets more useful with every cup.
Taste it blind.
Labels change how tea tastes. Pick two to six teas, Steepdial hides them behind letters in a random order, and you score each cup before you know what it is.
- BDong Ding“Roasty, stone fruit”8.5
- CTieguanyin“Floral, buttery”8
- ADa Hong Pao“Mineral, a bit harsh”6.5
How it works
- 01
Pick the teas
Two to six from your collection. Two harvests, two vendors, or three oolongs you can't choose between.
- 02
Choose how to brew
Best Brew blind brews each tea its own preferred way, to find the one you enjoy most. Standardized brews every cup the same way, which is fairest for two harvests or vendors of the same style.
- 03
Brew them side by side
Whoever brews opens the hidden key to see which tea is A, B, and C, with the recipe for each cup.
- 04
Score each cup
Give every cup a score out of 10 and a note.
- 05
Reveal
See the ranking with names, and keep the results with your teas.
The details
Random order
The letters are shuffled every time, so you can't guess from the order you picked them in.
Made for tasting together
One person brews using the key, everyone else tastes. Great with friends.
Kept for later
Past tastings stay in the list, so you can look back at how teas compared.
Questions
Can I do it on my own?
Yes. Have the key closed, pour each tea into a cup marked with its letter, shuffle the cups, and taste.
Your year in tea.
Sessions, infusions, teas explored, liters brewed, your favorite tea and family, the origins on your tea map, and your best cup, all in one recap. Save it as an image and share it.
- Sessions
- 412
- Infusions
- 1,386
- Teas explored
- 27
- Liters brewed
- 96
- Most brewedShizuoka Shincha96 sessions
- FavoriteDong Ding · 9.1 average12 sessions
- OriginsJapan, Taiwan, China, India4 countries
How it works
- 01
Brew all year
Every brew you log adds to the recap. It fills in as you go.
- 02
Open Year in Tea
See the year so far, or switch to a past year.
- 03
Save or share
Save as image makes a clean picture sized for social media. On phones it opens the share sheet.
The details
Made on your device
The image is drawn right on your phone or computer. Nothing is uploaded.
The good stuff
Favorite and most-brewed tea, favorite family and style, the origins you drank from, best cup with its date, most-used teaware, busiest month, and whether you're a morning or evening drinker.
Every year kept
Past years stay available as long as your brews do.
Questions
Does it only work in December?
No. It's always there and shows the year so far.
Your whole collection, on paper.
Every tea and its Perfect Brews on one clean printable page, for the shelf or a tea notebook. Or export your teas and your full brew log as spreadsheets.
How it works
- 01
Open Collection
Your teas are listed by style, each with its Perfect Brews, grams left, and cost per session.
- 02
Print it
Print prints just the list, in black on white, without the app around it.
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Or export
Download your teas or your brew log as a spreadsheet file that opens in Excel, Numbers, or Google Sheets.
The details
Teas spreadsheet
Tea, producer, origin, cultivar, harvest, style, roast, storage, Perfect Brew, and score first, then family, vendor, garden, elevation, season, lot, processing, oxidation, leaf form, caffeine, grams left, price, and notes.
Brew log spreadsheet
Every brew with its date, tea, style, temperature, leaf, water, rinse, steeps, infusions, volume, method, vessel, water used, score, every taste rating, flavor words, and notes.
Not a backup
The full backup in Settings is what keeps everything safe, photos included. These files are for reading and sharing.
Questions
Is this the same as a backup?
No. A backup (Export all data in Settings) saves everything so you can restore it, photos included. The printout and spreadsheets are for reading and sharing.
Your tea is nobody else's business.
Steepdial keeps everything on your own device. There's no account to create, no email to hand over, and your teas, brews, and notes are never sent to a server. It works offline, and you can take your data with you any time.
- Account
- None. Just open it.
- Email or phone
- Never asked for
- Where data lives
- On this device only
- Works offline
- Yes, once installed
- AI
- None
- Backup
- Export to a file any time
How it works
- 01
Open and start
No sign-up. Open Steepdial and add a tea, or explore with the sample teas.
- 02
Install it if you like
Add Steepdial to your phone's home screen and it opens full screen, like an app, and works without a connection.
- 03
Back it up
Export all your data from Settings as a file, and import it on another device or after clearing your browser.
The details
What's stored
Your teas, brews, notes, Perfect Brews, vessels, photos, and settings. Only on your device. Photos are shrunk before they're saved, and can go in your backup file too.
What isn't
No name, email, phone number, or location. No ads, no analytics, and no tracking cookies. Like any website, the server that delivers the pages sees a basic request when you load them, but none of your tea data is ever part of it. The fonts are served with the site, not from a third party.
No AI
Every suggestion comes from brewing rules you can check, all written out in the tea guide. Nothing you write or photograph is sent anywhere to be analyzed.
Delete means delete
Delete everything from Settings and it's gone. There's no copy anywhere else.
Questions
What if I clear my browser or lose my phone?
Your data goes with it unless you've exported a backup. Export from Settings now and then. Syncing between devices is coming, and it won't ask for your email.
Can I use it on my phone and computer?
Yes. For now, move your data between them with export and import.
More features
See all 6 →Fix a brew
Say what you'd change. Get the next recipe to try.
→BrewBrewing
A timer, a rating, and the next recipe, hot or iced.
Rate & dial in · Timer & gongfu sessions · Steep-by-steep notes · Iced & cold brew→TeasYour teas
Perfect Brews, new harvests, and labels for every tin.
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