Flame Boss vs TempSpike
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.
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 update cadence: Flame Boss at every 9 days against TempSpike's every 5 weeks. TempSpike's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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 4.6 for TempSpike. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2.3K and 2.7K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 36% of Flame Boss's written reviews are positive against 42% of TempSpike's.
Flame Boss ships an update every 9 days, TempSpike every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flame Boss | TempSpike |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (2.3K ratings) | 4.6 (2.7K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.3% of reviews | 42.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2.3K | 2.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Collins Research Inc. | iTronics Co., Limited |
Customer experience
Flame Boss
TempSpike
User reviews
Flame Boss
From 2.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent temperature control
- 🚀 Seamless remote monitoring
- 👍 Great customer service
- 🚀 Reliable performance
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connectivity issues after updates
- 🐛 Unstable app performance
- 🐛 Unreliable notifications
- 🐛 Difficulty setting up and connecting
TempSpike
From 2.7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Accurate temperature monitoring
- 🔧 Customizable cooking profiles
- ⏱️ Helpful time remaining estimates
- 💡 Ambient temperature tracking
- 👍 Easy to use app interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connectivity issues and disconnects
- 🔋 Limited battery life
- 🔍 Confusing alarm on/off indicators
- 📱 Lack of Apple Watch support
- 🤔 Unintuitive user interface
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
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
Flame Boss
No in-app purchases
TempSpike
No in-app purchases
