Tovala vs ForkBrain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tovala
Control your smart oven and order weekly meal kits with this app. It guides you through connecting your oven, browsing menus, and tracking deliveries. Enjoy chef-perfected meals with simple scanning and oven control.
- Connect smart oven to WiFi
- Order weekly meal deliveries
- Track deliveries
- Control oven remotely
- Use cooking presets
- Scan pantry staples for cooking
- Create custom cooking modes
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Tovala is the only system that makes cooking as simple as scanning a QR code. This is the official app for controlling your Tovala Smart Oven and ordering weekly meal deliveries. App Features: - Follow quick prompts to connect your Tovala Smart Oven to WiFi. - Browse our weekly menu and order meals designed to cook perfectly in your Tovala Smart Oven. - Track weekly deliveries. - Control your Tovala Smart Oven from your phone and receive notifications when your food is done. - Explore our library of presets for light-touch cooking–just follow a few prep steps, then press "cook” to make a chef-perfected side dish, brunch, or dessert. - Scan the barcode on your favorite pantry staples and frozen foods for quick, delicious results. - Create your own combination of versatile cooking modes. - Use the app’s HealthKit integration to log nutrition information from each meal in the Health App. - Rate Tovala Meals. - Chat with our support team.
ForkBrain
This app eliminates decision fatigue for dining out. Answer a short quiz about your mood and preferences, and it will suggest one specific restaurant for you. If you don't like the first suggestion, you get two chances to re-roll.
- Personalized restaurant suggestions
- Mood-based decision making
- Eliminates endless scrolling
- Two re-roll options
- No email required
- Focuses on one suggestion
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I built ForkBrain because I waste an embarrassing amount of time deciding where to eat. You probably do too. You open the maps app, scroll through 200 places, read a few reviews, get overwhelmed, and somehow end up eating cereal at home. So I made an app that just decides for you. You answer 12 dumb questions, it reads your mood, and it tells you exactly where to go. One place. No endless scrolling, no comparing four taco spots, no decision paralysis. Just an answer. Hate the pick? You get two re-rolls. After that it cuts you off, because at some point you have to actually eat. It pulls real restaurants near you, it doesn't ask for your email, and it won't try to sell you anything. I just wanted to stop wasting 30 minutes every night on the same stupid decision. Answer the questions. Go eat. Stop going back and fork. — Blake
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ForkBrain at 100% against Tovala's 44%. ForkBrain also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). Tovala's advantage is ratings volume (12K vs 6). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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.
ForkBrain holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tovala has 12K ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Tovala's written reviews are positive against 100% of ForkBrain's.
Tovala ships an update fortnightly, ForkBrain every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tovala | ForkBrain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (12K ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12K — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 238 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Maestro Food Co | BLAKE ROBERT ZIEGLER |
Customer experience
Tovala
ForkBrain
Bugs and requests
Tovala
Reported bugs
3 issues- App crashes and freezes
- Oven issues like leaking water and cooking inconsistencies
- Delivery problems with late or damaged packages
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to customize or exclude ingredients
- More meal options and variety
- Improved app functionality and stability
- Family-sized meal options
- Integration with other smart home devices
ForkBrain
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tovala
No in-app purchases
ForkBrain
No in-app purchases
