It all starts with a cup of tea.

Extract Maker is an app designed to help users craft herbal extracts and teas from medicinal plants. It provides scientific guidance for brewing effective bioactive teas and creating potent alcoholic tinctures with precise measurements and parameters.

Extract Maker currently supports 5 extraction methods: infusion (tea making), maceration (classical extraction), decoction (boiling and cooking), ultrasound-assisted extraction (novel extraction method), and microwave-assisted extraction (another novel method). These methods are each handled by a different mathematical model.

Absolutely! Extract Maker is equally suitable for both beginners and advanced users. Once you open the app, click Quick Guide and in less than a minute you'll know how it works. For beginners, it is great as a guidance tool for correctly making almost any tea you can think of. For advanced users, it has numerous advanced features for macerations, decoctions, UAE, and MAE extractions.

Extract Maker estimates dosage guidelines through a three-step process. First, it calculates extraction efficiency using the chosen method’s parameters—temperature, duration, method efficiency, solubility matrix, and molecular polarity. Next, it uses this efficiency and the material’s extractable content to estimate the total extracted active mass and the extract’s final concentration. Finally, based on the concentration, your body weight, and dosages from published literature, it provides three dosage guidelines—low, medium, and high.

No, Extract Maker is not a plant-identification app. It is specifically designed as a toolbox for creating herbal extracts and teas from medicinal plants that you have already identified.