Vine Smart Control vs Math Loaf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vine Smart Control
Control your home's temperature with a programmable schedule for unlimited settings across different hours, days, and weeks. Receive alert messages for abnormal temperature changes and instantly adjust your smart thermostat settings.
- Programmable temperature schedules
- Unlimited settings
- Temperature alert messages
- Instant thermostat adjustment
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1.Program a schedule of unlimited temperature settings for different hours, days, and weeks 2.Alert messages for abnormal changes in room temperature 3.Instant Smart Thermostat (ST) temperature setting
Math Loaf
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Math Loaf is a baker's percentage calculator for bread. Every ingredient is expressed as a percentage of total flour, and real gram weights update live as you scale. THE HYDRATION DIAL Drag the dial and every weight recalculates instantly, not when you let go. Sweep quickly from 60% to 90%, then switch to fine adjustment and land exactly on 74%. Haptic ticks mark each whole percent, with a firmer notch at 65, 70, 75 and 80%. When you scale by total dough weight, dragging hydration trades flour against water while your total stays fixed. You can always type an exact value instead. SCALE THREE WAYS - Flour weight: "I have 500 g of flour" - Dough weight: "I want 900 g of dough" - Units: "3 loaves at 800 g each", with a loss percentage for dough left in the bowl and on the bench Changing the basis never changes your percentages, only the weights. PREFERMENTS DONE PROPERLY Add a levain, poolish, biga or stiff starter and Math Loaf shows two sets of numbers: the overall formula, and the final dough you actually weigh out at mix time, with the preferment's flour and water already subtracted. Salted preferments such as pate fermentee are handled too. MATH A BAKER CAN TRUST Displayed weights sum exactly to the displayed total. Math Loaf allocates rounding by largest remainder, so you never see ingredients adding up to 901 g under a 900 g total. A gram of salt or yeast is shown at finer precision rather than rounded away to zero. And when a formula is invalid, because there is no flour, because the flour percentages do not reach 100%, or because the preferment is larger than the formula, the app explains what is wrong instead of showing a plausible looking false number. EDIT FROM EITHER SIDE Tap a percentage or tap a weight. Editing one sets the other, and it round-trips without drift, so you can work from whichever number you happen to know. NINE FORMULAS TO START Country sourdough, baguette, ciabatta, focaccia, pizza dough, 100% whole wheat, brioche, bagels and sandwich loaf. Edit one and you get your own copy; the original stays intact. Build formulas from scratch, duplicate them, mark favorites, and add, rename or reorder ingredients freely. SET UP THE WAY YOU BAKE - Grams, or ounces and pounds - Whole grams or 0.1 g for small ingredients - Salt as a percentage of total flour or of final-dough flour - Optionally count the water in milk, eggs and butter toward hydration - Haptics on or off BUILT FOR THE KITCHEN Large tabular figures that never shift the layout as they change. A warm parchment light mode and a rye-and-espresso dark mode, each designed on its own terms. A composition bar that shows a formula's character at a glance, and a totals strip you can read at arm's length on the counter. Full VoiceOver support, Dynamic Type up to the accessibility sizes, ingredient rows that read as a sentence, and a hydration dial you can adjust without a drag gesture. Math Loaf works entirely offline. No account, no ads, no tracking, no network. Nothing you enter leaves your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Vine Smart Control at 3 against Math Loaf's 1. Vine Smart Control also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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.
| Parameter | Vine Smart Control | Math Loaf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (124 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 6.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 124 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 63 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ZIBO (XING CONNECTED) INFOTECH INC. | Donny Kurniawan |
Bugs and requests
Vine Smart Control
Reported bugs
41 issues- App crashes constantly
- App not responding
- Thermostat settings change without user input
- App does not show actual ambient temperature
- App goes offline frequently
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- Date and time do not update
- Temperature doesn't update on phone
- Cannot connect remotely after update
- App fails to connect to thermostat
- App not working after uninstall/reinstall
- App does not correctly show thermostat settings
- App shows change but doesn't update itself
- Wi-Fi connection issues
- App crashing often
- Date and time do not stay correct
- Cannot adjust temperature in app
- Cannot set date & time
- Cannot register for account
- App requires frequent reinstallation
- Software kinks causing issues
- Cannot login, username/password not recognized
- App not working with latest iOS
- Parameter error messages
- Thermostat locked, requires unplugging
- App doesn't notice commands
- Cannot connect to Wi-Fi
- Device and app stopped communicating
- Time zones incorrect
- Multiple phones cannot connect
- Thermostat goes offline via app
- App disconnects from Wi-Fi
- Server issues
- White font on white background
- Missing 'next' button
- App resets itself
- Login errors
- Thermostat constantly drops Wi-Fi
- App shows offline
- Login timeout
- Wi-Fi cutting off
- Expired security certificate
Requested features
4 requests- Fix app crashing issues
- Improve app user-friendliness
- Add coloring to the mobile app
- Implement geo-fencing
Math Loaf
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Vine Smart Control
No in-app purchases
Math Loaf
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Vine Smart Control free?
Is Math Loaf free?
Do Vine Smart Control or Math Loaf have ads?
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