Ooni Pizza Ovens vs recteq
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ooni Pizza Ovens
This app helps you make perfect pizza dough with a smart calculator that adjusts for temperature, hydration, and yeast. It also offers recipes, cooking tips, and guides for new pizza makers. Connect to compatible ovens via Bluetooth for remote temperature monitoring.
- Smart dough calculator
- Customizable dough settings
- Recipe library
- Ooni Connect™ Bluetooth connectivity
- Step-by-step pizza guides
- Product care resources
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The Ooni app - your ultimate pizza-making companion with a smart dough calculator and Ooni Connect™ Bluetooth connectivity! Our smart pizza dough calculator takes the guesswork out of dough making. You can adjust settings for temperature, hydration, yeast type, and proofing time to dial in exactly what you’re looking for. The app also includes hundreds of delicious recipes and cooking tips. Save your favorites and build your personal cookbook. Plus, you can now connect the Ooni app to your oven with Ooni Connect™ via Bluetooth to monitor temperatures remotely in real time. New to Ooni? Our step-by-step guides and resources help you get the hang of pizza-making techniques like stretching dough and launching pies into the oven. Our product guides can also help you take care of your oven and accessories. If you have questions or feedback, contact apps@ooni.com.
recteq
Remotely manage your smart grill. Monitor meat and grill temperatures with multiple probes, receive alerts, and access advanced calibration features. Discover recipes and shop for accessories all from your mobile device.
- Remote grill control
- Dual meat probe monitoring
- Grill temperature monitoring
- Advanced temperature calibration
- Real-time alarms
- Recipe browsing
- In-app shopping
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Control, monitor, and receive alarms for your recteq from anywhere. Monitor and chart the temperature of two meat probes. Monitor your grill‘s internal temperature. Use this app for advanced calibration of your grill’s temperature sensors. Receive alarms, browse recipes, shop and more. All from the palm of your hand.
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Verdict
Ooni Pizza Ovens and recteq both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 65% of Ooni Pizza Ovens's written reviews are positive against 31% of recteq's. Ooni Pizza Ovens also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). recteq's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (25K vs 4.6K). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Ooni Pizza Ovens against 4.8 for recteq. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: recteq has 25K ratings behind it against 4.6K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 65% of Ooni Pizza Ovens's written reviews are positive against 31% of recteq's.
Ooni Pizza Ovens ships an update fortnightly, recteq every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ooni Pizza Ovens | recteq |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4.6K ratings) — better | 4.8 (25K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.2% of reviews — better | 31.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4.6K | 25K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ooni Limited | Recteq, LLC |
Customer experience
Ooni Pizza Ovens
recteq
User reviews
Ooni Pizza Ovens
From 4.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🍕 Delicious pizza recipes
- 🧠 Informative and helpful
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🔢 Accurate dough calculator
- 🎥 Useful instructional videos
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and crashes
- 📱 Suboptimal iPad experience
- 🔍 Limited search/bookmark functionality
- 🇺🇸 Lack of imperial measurements
- 🔑 Registration and login issues
recteq
From 25K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent temperature control
- 🚀 Consistent performance
- 👍 Great customer service
- 👍 Durable and well-built
- 👍 Helpful app features
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent notifications
- 🐛 Connectivity issues
- 🔍 Limited app functionality
- 🔍 Cumbersome app interface
- 🔍 Removed remote start feature
Bugs and requests
Ooni Pizza Ovens
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent app crashes
- Inability to properly register products
- Inconsistent behavior of dough calculator
- Keyboard issues on tablet devices
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to save favorite recipes
- More customization options for dough recipes
- Improved integration between videos and recipes
- Expanded support for pre-ferments and other dough techniques
recteq
Reported bugs
3 issues- Probe temperature inaccuracies
- App crashes when accessing temperature history
- Unreliable app notifications
Requested features
4 requests- Customizable alarm tones
- Ability to set timers within the app
- Improved temperature history and data visualization
- Seamless integration between app and website recipes
In-app purchases
Ooni Pizza Ovens
No in-app purchases
recteq
No in-app purchases
