Bradley iSmoke vs TempSpike
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bradley iSmoke
Control your food smoker remotely via Bluetooth. Monitor and adjust temperature, cooking time, and smoking time in real-time from your smartphone. Set temperature alerts and view graphs of internal smoker temperatures for perfect results.
- Remote temperature control
- Real-time cooking time monitoring
- Bluetooth connectivity
- Temperature alerts
- Internal temperature graphs
- Recipe access
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Try food smoking the high tech way! The Bradley iSmoke™ app, with iSmoke™ Technology, allows you to control temperature, cooking time and smoking time from Bluetooth®-enabled devices in real-time. It works in conjunction with the touchscreen and two color-coded temperature probes on the Bradley Smart Smoker™. This easy-to-use app lets you monitor, control and adjust the cooking cycle from your smartphone or other smart device. Temperature alerts can be set with standard levels for a variety of meat and fish, or you can choose your own temperature alert level. A temperature graph tells you exactly what’s happening inside the smoker, and charts the changes of the temperature probes. Only a touch away, you can find delicious recipes, an instruction manual and the Bradley Smoker website with the app. Get cooking with the app and then monitor your progress while you’re creating other dishes in the kitchen, or relaxing on your couch. Monitoring and adjusting the temperature gives you total control over the cooking cycle, and you’ll see the difference in flavor! Category: Food & Drink
TempSpike
Monitor your barbecue's temperature and time remotely using a wireless Bluetooth connection. Receive immediate alerts when your food reaches the set temperature or time.
- Wireless Bluetooth connectivity
- Remote temperature monitoring
- Remote time monitoring
- Instant alerts
- Set custom temperatures
- Set custom times
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TempSpike is a wireless bluetooth barbecue temperature and time monitoring program, connected to wireless bluetooth, you can remotely set the temperature or time, when the temperature reaches the specified time, it will remind you immediately
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: TempSpike at 4.6 against Bradley iSmoke's 1.6. TempSpike also leads on review sentiment (42% vs 6%) and ratings volume (2.8K vs 24). Bradley iSmoke's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 10.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
TempSpike holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 1.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TempSpike has 2.8K ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 6% of Bradley iSmoke's written reviews are positive against 42% of TempSpike's.
Bradley iSmoke ships an update every 5 months, TempSpike every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bradley iSmoke | TempSpike |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.6 (24 ratings) | 4.6 (2.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 5.7% of reviews | 42.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 2.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 10.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bradley Smoker Group of Companies | iTronics Co., Limited |
Customer experience
Bradley iSmoke
TempSpike
Bugs and requests
Bradley iSmoke
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
TempSpike
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes after recent update
- Probe color identification reversed in app
- Cooking progress not saved when app is closed
- Estimated time remaining feature not working
- Issues with adding new cooking profiles
Requested features
5 requests- Add widget support for quick temperature checks
- Allow more flexibility in setting temperature alarms
- Improve data export functionality
- Enhance cooking graph to show real-time data
- Add support for more meat types and cooking profiles
In-app purchases
Bradley iSmoke
No in-app purchases
TempSpike
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Bradley iSmoke free?
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