Flame Boss vs SMOBOT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flame Boss
Remotely monitor and control your cooking with a Wi-Fi smoker controller or thermometer. View temperature graphs, adjust settings, and receive text alerts for your pit and meat. Share your progress and save cook details for future reference.
- Remote temperature monitoring
- Adjust set temperature
- Text alerts for pit/meat
- View temperature graphs
- Share cooks on social media
- Automatic warming temperature
- Save cook notes and titles
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The Flame Boss® app allows you to remotely monitor and control your cooks with any Flame Boss Wi-Fi smoker controller or thermometer. You can: -View temperature graphs of current and past cooks -Change the set temperature for your pit -Text alert configuration -Enable or disable pit and meat alerts -Share your cooks on Facebook and Twitter -Enable an automatic warming temp when the finished meat temp is reached -Add, edit and update personal cook titles and notes for future reference -Change device pin and remove shared access with other users -Make cooks private The Flame Boss app also works with the web-based application available at MyFlameBoss.com.
SMOBOT
Monitor and control your robotic grill remotely. Track food and grill temperatures, view cook graphs, and set custom alarms for notifications. Requires a SMOBOT Robotic Grill Controller.
- Monitor food and grill temperatures
- Monitor damper state
- View cook graphs
- Change set point
- Set food temperature alarms
- Set grill temperature deviation alarms
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The SMOBOT app for iOS lets you monitor and control your cooks with your SMOBOT Robotic Grill Controller. Features: - Monitor current food and grill temperatures - Monitor damper state and position - View a graph of your current cook - Display and change the set point of your SMOBOT - Set up alarms to be notified when your food reaches a specified temperature - Set up alarms to be notified if your grill temperature deviates from the set temp The SMOBOT app works in conjunction with your account on https://mysmobot.com.
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Verdict
Flame Boss and SMOBOT both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 83% of SMOBOT's written reviews are positive against 36% of Flame Boss's. SMOBOT also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). Flame Boss's advantage is ratings volume (2.4K vs 28). 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 — 4.6 for Flame Boss against 4.5 for SMOBOT. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flame Boss has 2.4K ratings behind it against 28, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 36% of Flame Boss's written reviews are positive against 83% of SMOBOT's.
| Parameter | Flame Boss | SMOBOT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.4K ratings) — better | 4.5 (28 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.3% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.4K — better | 28 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Collins Research Inc. | IOT Controls LLC |
Customer experience
Flame Boss
SMOBOT
Bugs and requests
Flame Boss
Reported bugs
4 issues- App freezes and loses connection
- Inability to update temperatures and settings
- Incorrect temperature readings
- Failure to save cook history
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to pause/resume cooks
- Improved app UI/UX
- Faster load times
- More customization options
SMOBOT
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flame Boss
No in-app purchases
SMOBOT
No in-app purchases
