Mist drifting between stone peaks and tea forests, the landscape Kiri is named after
Kiri — a tea app for iPhone

Steep by steep,
know your tea.

A gongfu timer that paces every infusion, a catalogue for your whole collection, and a map of where each leaf was grown. One quiet app.

Download on the App Store
kiri / きり /
noun, Japanese — mist; the low cloud that settles over high tea gardens.
White tea leaves resting in a dark-glazed bowl on a wooden tea tray
Silver needle, resting

The best leaves grow where the clouds sit — fog-fed gardens in Yunnan, shaded terraces above Uji. Kiri is built on the idea that tea is a place before it is a drink.

It keeps your collection in order, times each steep the way it deserves, and remembers where everything came from. No feed, no streaks shouting at you — just you, the kettle, and a well-kept record of what you love.

The catalogue — six families of tea
Green Pan-fired or steamed; grassy, sweet, bright.
White Barely touched; soft, honeyed, quiet.
Yellow The rare one; mellowed by a slow smother.
Oolong Part-oxidized; orchid through roast.
Black Fully oxidized; malt, cocoa, warmth.
Dark & puerh Aged, fermented; earth, camphor, time.

Every family in Kiri's catalogue carries its own brewing defaults — so a delicate gyokuro is never treated like a brick of shou.

01 — The Timer

A gongfu tea timer that thinks in steeps

Western brewing needs one good timer. Gongfu needs a dozen — each infusion a little longer than the last. Kiri paces the whole session: set the leaf, water and temperature once, then just pour.

  • Gongfu & western presets Switch styles per tea — steep times, ratios and temperature adjust with you.
  • Adaptive steep timing Each infusion extends automatically; nudge it by seconds as the leaves open.
  • Brewing guidance 85°C, 6g per 100ml, five steeps — the numbers are there while the water heats.
  • Session history Every past steep is saved, so tomorrow's session starts where today's ended.
Perfect every steep. Guided gongfu, Western, and cold-brew timing — the Kiri timer counting down a 20-second steep of jasmine green with presets for green, black, oolong and herbal.
15sFirst steep
85°CWater
6g/100mlLeaf to water
+2sEach steep after

Xihu Long Jing, exactly as Kiri brews it in the screen above.

Your tea collection, beautifully organised. Track teas you own, want, and have tasted — a Kiri shelf of greens, whites, oolongs and puerh with star ratings.
02 — The Shelf

A tea catalogue that keeps your collection honest

Cakes in a drawer, tins on a shelf, samples in a shoebox — every collection ends up in pieces. Kiri puts it back in one place: searchable, rated, and sorted into what you want, what you have, and what you've already been through.

  • Want / have / tried Three shelves that mirror how tea people actually think about their stash.
  • Ratings & tasting notes Score each tea, keep notes, and stop re-buying the ones that disappointed you.
  • Label scanning Point the camera at a wrapper — Kiri reads it and fills in the details.
  • Search & filters Find anything by type, region, oxidation, or your own ratings.
A dark tea plantation hillside disappearing into low cloud
Tea is a place
before it is a taste. — the idea behind Kiri
Hot water poured from a celadon kettle into a gaiwan of green tea leaves
茶道 — The ritual

Five quiet minutes, kept for good

  1. 壱 Choose the leaf Pick from your shelf — Kiri sets the water, heat and timing to match the tea.
  2. 弐 Steep, pour, repeat The ring counts each infusion; you stay with the gaiwan, not the clock.
  3. 参 It's remembered Steeps, notes and ratings file themselves into your tea passport.
03 — The Map

An origin map for every leaf on your shelf

Yunnan's ancient tea forests. The Wuyi cliffs. A shaded field outside Uji. Kiri's interactive map ties the teas you drink to the regions that grew them — and fills in your own map with every cup.

  • Interactive world map Browse every major growing region, country by country, terroir by terroir.
  • Region guides What makes Darjeeling bright and Wuyi dark — with the teas to prove it.
  • My Origins A personal tea passport that fills in as you drink your way around the world.
  • Flavor fingerprint Your palate, drawn from your own tasting notes.
Discover where your tea begins. Explore regions, traditions, and teas to try next — Kiri's globe opened on Yunnan, China with 180 teas in the catalogue.
Yunnan Old-forest puerh — earth, orchids, and trees a thousand years old.
Uji Shaded gyokuro and matcha — the deep-umami heart of Japan.
Darjeeling First-flush muscatel from the Himalayan foothills.
Wuyi Cliff-grown yancha — mineral, dark, and slow to give in.

A few of the regions waiting on the map

More of the app
Scan a label. Know your tea. Capture the details and build your tea shelf — Kiri's camera reading a Tie Guan Yin oolong wrapper. Your summer tea, ready when you are. Set a cold brew now, sip something refreshing later — a jasmine green cold brew with six hours ten minutes left. Every tea stamps your passport. Collect countries, regions, and stamps as you sip — a Kiri tea passport with 22 teas across 7 countries and 13 regions. Build your tea ritual. Track every brew and watch your streak grow — a brewing calendar with a six-day streak and a flavour fingerprint chart.

The water is almost ready.

Kiri for iPhone — gongfu timer, tea catalogue and origin map in one app.

Download on the App Store

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