Teavana iPhone App Review

Alright, no lie, this is probably my new favorite iPhone app. I seriously did a happy dance when I found it and saw all the neat little features. One of my favorite things about the app is that stuff moves when you rotate your phone. Its cute. Overall the app is simple and easy to use. The menu is down at the bottom with all the options.

Tea Touch is the home screen. It shows you all the options of the app in little bubbles as you can see in the image on the left. Its pretty simple and straight forward navigation.

Teas & Favorites are two basic features. It lists all the teas out. It has them grouped by the type of tea. When you click on a tea it gives you some info on it including health info and ingredients. You also have three options from the page: How to Prepare, Start Steeping, and Blend your Tea. There is also a star that you can click to add your tea as a favorite. The Favorite button in on the bottom menu.

Tea Blender is a really cool feature. It allows you to pick a base tea and then it tells you the suggested blends for it. After that it will show you how to prepare the tea. The only fault I see in this is that you cannot pick your own blends and you’re limited to two teas. I know I like to come up with some crazy blends on my own and they sometimes involve more than two teas. My suggestion for this feature would be to add the option of full control over tea blending.

Tea Timer is the best part of this app. I use it daily to time out my tea. I’m notorious for completely forgetting that I’m steeping tea and I’ll let it sit for over 10 minutes. That’s not really a good thing. This time plays music as its counting down and alerts you when your tea is ready. Also the background of the timer is dependent on what kind of tea you’re steeping.

Shop is simply a button that will take you to the Teavana mobile store in Safari.

Store Locator will pinpoint your location and show you on a map where your nearest stores are. You can also use the List view to see more stores that aren’t in your general area.

The only other suggestion I have for this app is to maybe add an option that allows you to pick what teas you actually have and get suggested blends based on those teas. Maybe add that into the Teas and the Favorites features.  But that’s it, I love this app!

Click here to download the app.