Roast Perfect vs Roast Calc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Roast Perfect
This app guides you through creating a perfect roast, from selecting the ideal cut of beef to preparation, roasting, and serving. It offers step-by-step instructions, video tutorials, and even helps you find nearby stores for the best cuts.
- Step-by-step roasting instructions
- Beef cut selection guide
- Preparation videos and recipes
- Store locator for beef
- Roast preparation assistance
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Create the perfect roast and make a meal to remember. The Roast Perfect App gives step by step instructions, from choosing the ideal beef cut at the store to how to prepare, roast and serve. The app helps you: • Choose the right roast to buy based on portion size • Prepare beef with videos and recipes • Get help preparing the roast you already have. • Find a nearby store to purchase the best beef roast.
Roast Calc
This app helps you calculate the perfect cooking time and temperature for beef, chicken, and pork roasts. It takes the guesswork out of meal preparation by considering your preferred cooking style, speed, and the weight of the meat.
- Roast cooking time calculator
- Temperature calculation
- Beef, chicken, and pork options
- Customizable cooking styles (rare to well done)
- Adjustable cooking speeds (fast, regular, slow)
- Hints, tips, and sample recipes
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Roast Calc is the simple tool for calculating the cooking time and temperature for cooking family roasts. Take the guess work out of your roasts with individual calculators for Beef, Chicken and Pork. Juicy and succulent roasts are now easier than ever. Enter the cooking style you prefer, rare, well done etc along with the cooking speed - fast, regular or slow cooked, finally add the weight and the cooking times will be displayed in a simple to follow manner. Theres also a hints and tips page along with a sample recipe. This is probably all you need to use to get started! We hope that every time you can enjoy your next roast even more than your last
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Roast Perfect at Free against Roast Calc's $0.99. Roast Perfect also leads on rating (3.6 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 32 months). On ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Roast Perfect is free to download; Roast Calc costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Roast Perfect holds the better App Store score, 3.6 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Roast Perfect has 121 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Roast Perfect's written reviews are positive against 33% of Roast Calc's.
Roast Perfect ships an update every 2 months, Roast Calc every 32 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Roast Perfect | Roast Calc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.6 (121 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 54.9% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 121 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 32 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Certified Angus Beef LLC | Michael glucz |
Customer experience
Roast Perfect
Roast Calc
Bugs and requests
Roast Perfect
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes on selection
- App crashes immediately
- App doesn't open
- Timer doesn't sound
- Timer doesn't advance
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- App closes after selecting roast
- Freezes when trying to use
- Timer not working
- App closes when picking timer/meat
- App closes when selecting roast from timer
Requested features
9 requests- Bring back the old interface
- Restore the built-in timer
- Add timer notifications
- Allow selection of exact weight
- Add convection oven adjustments
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- Include target temperatures
- Option to switch between imperial/metric
- Add chuck roast recipes
- Allow switching between °C and °F
Roast Calc
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Roast Perfect
No in-app purchases
Roast Calc
No in-app purchases
Questions
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