Comparison

Flame Boss vs glugluglug

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Flame Boss

Remotely monitor and control your smoker with a Wi-Fi controller or thermometer. View temperature graphs, adjust set temperatures, and configure text alerts for pit and meat temperatures. Save cook notes and share your progress.

Highlights
  • Remote temperature monitoring
  • Adjust set temperature
  • Text alerts for pit/meat temps
  • Temperature graph history
  • Save cook notes and titles
  • Share cooks on social media
Features
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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.

About

glugluglug

Features
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glugluglug is a wine cellar you can keep with your friends. Free, and it stays on your phone: make a place for bottles — a wine fridge, a shelf, a box in the hallway — and put wine in it. See everything you have at a glance, drink one, and watch the rack empty. No account, no sign-up, no nagging. THE NOTEBOOK Not every bottle goes in the cellar. Some you drink at a bar and want to remember. Write it down: give it a verdict from "nope" to "again!!", then pick what it looked, smelled and tasted like from a proper tasting vocabulary — or just say "went great with the pizza" and move on. Over time, the notebook works out what you actually go for. EVERY BOTTLE, FINDABLE One searchable list across every place you keep wine. Producer, grape, region, vintage — find the thing you know you have somewhere. FRIENDS, FREE An account costs nothing and adds friends, so someone can share a bottle with you the day they hear about this. What they share turns up in your app straight away. GLUG PLUS Sharing back, and everything that needs a server, is the subscription: • Sharing — share one bottle out of a case with a friend, or the whole case, and the count stays right without a spreadsheet or an awkward conversation • Shared places — the fridge you keep with the person you live with, visible to you both • Sync — your cellar on every phone, backed up • The label scanner — point the camera at a bottle, or pick a photo you already took, and get the wine Free keeps working. Your cellar just stays on this phone. WHAT IT DOESN'T DO No adverts. No analytics. No scores out of 100 from someone who isn't you. Your cellar is yours, and you can export it as a spreadsheet whenever you like. GLUG PLUS, THE SUBSCRIPTION glug plus is an auto-renewing monthly subscription. It renews each month unless you switch it off at least 24 hours before the month is up, and you can cancel any time in your App Store settings. The free app keeps working either way. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Our service terms: https://glugluglug.com/terms Privacy policy: https://glugluglug.com/privacy np.lol — small apps, made with care.

Screenshots

Flame Boss4 screens
glugluglug4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: glugluglug at every 3 days against Flame Boss's every 2 weeks. Flame Boss's advantage is device support (4 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flame Boss ships an update every 2 weeks, glugluglug every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Flame Boss versus glugluglug: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlame Bossglugluglug
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (2.4K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews36.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings2.4K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB2 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperCollins Research Inc.Ken Grønnbeck

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

glugluglug

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Flame Boss

No in-app purchases

None

glugluglug

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flame Boss free?
Flame Boss is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is glugluglug free?
glugluglug is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Flame Boss or glugluglug have ads?
Neither Flame Boss nor glugluglug shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Flame Boss or glugluglug?
Flame Boss ships an update every 2 weeks, and glugluglug every 3 days. Most recently, Flame Boss was updated on November 6, 2026 and glugluglug on November 6, 2026.

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