Matcha journal · brew timer · tin tracker
Thirty curated recipes, a guided brew timer, a journal for every bowl, and a tin tracker that knows when your matcha is past its prime. No accounts, no ads, no cloud. Your practice stays yours.
Real recipes, accurate brewing, honest tracking, and clean design. Matcha Almanac is built around those four ideas — nothing else.
Usucha and koicha at correct ratios. Hot lattes, iced lattes, cortados, affogatos, summer iced builds, and a small handful of viral cafe-style drinks — each with grams, milliliters, water temperature, whisk time, and step-by-step instructions. Ratios tested against Hugo Tea, Jade Leaf, Mizuba, and other respected sources. Save your own recipes too, with photos.
A multi-step ring walks you through sifting, blooming, whisking, and finishing. Background-safe, so it survives switching apps to grab the kettle. Haptic ticks at the right moments. Quiet by default, cancellable any time.
Log tins by brand, blend, grade, origin, and harvest date. The freshness countdown flags the 60, 75, and 90-day marks after opening. Grams remaining auto-deduct as you brew, and cost per bowl is computed from what you paid.
Every brew is logged with the tin used, the recipe followed, and your tasting notes. A six-axis rating captures umami, sweet, bitter, creamy, foam, and color. A calendar heatmap shows the rhythm of your practice over months.
Hot or iced, latte or straight, weak, medium, or strong — the calculator handles the math so the bowl comes out right.
A daily caffeine ring with a configurable cap keeps an honest count of your day.
See what your home brews really cost, compared to the cafe down the street.
From chasen to chashitsu — with the things they are also called.
Ten readable cards covering the fundamentals of an accurate brew.
A real iPad layout — not a stretched phone — with pointer and hardware keyboard support.
Everything lives on your device. There is no account to create, no cloud sync, no analytics, no crash reporting, no ads, and no tracking. You can export your data to JSON or CSV at any time — it is yours.
Accessibility is treated the same way: Reduced Motion, Reduced Transparency, Bold Text, Dynamic Type up to AX5, and VoiceOver are all supported.
The free app is fully functional. Pro is for people who want unlimited everything and the deeper analytics.
| Included free | Unlocked by Pro |
|---|---|
| Thirty curated recipes with full instructions | Unlimited custom recipes |
| Guided, background-safe brew timer | Unlimited journal entries and unlimited active tins |
| Journal, tin tracker, ratio calculator, glossary, brewing guide | Six-axis taste sliders, calendar heatmap, cost-per-cup view, caffeine ring with configurable cap |
| Everything stored on-device, no account | Premium share card templates, JSON and CSV export |
Evergreen, no-nonsense answers to the questions every home matcha drinker eventually asks.
Thin tea, thick tea: the ratios, temperatures, and technique behind matcha's two classic preparations.
Read the guide →Why 60–80 °C is the window that protects sweetness and L-theanine — and why boiling water makes matcha bitter.
Read the guide →Freshness after opening, honest storage advice, and how to tell when a tin is past its prime.
Read the guide →A practical vocabulary for umami, sweetness, bitterness, and foam — and how a journal sharpens your palate.
Read the guide →The honest math of home matcha versus the cafe, and how to stop wasting money on fading tins.
Read the guide →Yes. The free app is fully functional. An optional Matcha Almanac Pro upgrade unlocks unlimited custom recipes, unlimited journal entries, unlimited active tins, the six-axis taste sliders, the cost-per-cup view, the caffeine ring with a configurable daily cap, the calendar heatmap, premium share card templates, and JSON and CSV export.
No. There is no account to create and no cloud sync. Everything — recipes, journal entries, tins — lives on your device.
No. The app has no analytics, no crash reporting, no ads, and no tracking. It is local-first by design, and you can export your data to JSON or CSV at any time.
Pro is offered as a weekly auto-renewing subscription, a yearly auto-renewing subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase that does not auto-renew. Subscriptions renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your Apple ID account settings.
The thirty recipes were tested against ratios from Hugo Tea, Jade Leaf, Mizuba, and other respected sources. Every recipe lists grams, milliliters, water temperature, whisk time, and step-by-step instructions, and the brew timer respects the 60–80 °C window that protects L-theanine.
Matcha Almanac is built for iPhone and iPad (iOS 15.1 or later) with a real iPad layout that is pointer and hardware-keyboard friendly, and it supports VoiceOver, Dynamic Type up to AX5, Reduced Motion, Reduced Transparency, and Bold Text. An Android version is available on Google Play.
Free to download, fully functional, and quiet by default. Brew the bowl, log the bowl, and let the almanac remember the rest.