recteq vs Typhur
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
recteq
Remotely manage your smart grill. Monitor meat and grill temperatures with multiple probes, receive alerts, and access advanced calibration features. Discover recipes and shop for accessories all from your mobile device.
- Remote grill control
- Dual meat probe monitoring
- Grill temperature monitoring
- Advanced temperature calibration
- Real-time alarms
- Recipe browsing
- In-app shopping
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Control, monitor, and receive alarms for your recteq from anywhere. Monitor and chart the temperature of two meat probes. Monitor your grill‘s internal temperature. Use this app for advanced calibration of your grill’s temperature sensors. Receive alarms, browse recipes, shop and more. All from the palm of your hand.
Typhur
This app offers guided recipes with videos and step-by-step instructions to make cooking effortless. It allows remote management and control of smart kitchen appliances, including software updates and notifications. Users can also transfer recipes directly to their devices and save custom cooking parameters for easier meal preparation.
- Guided recipes with videos
- Step-by-step cooking instructions
- Remote appliance management
- Device software upgrades
- Transfer recipes to devices
- Customizable cooking parameters
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At Typhur Culinary, we are harnessing the power of technology to create smart kitchen appliances to make it effortless for you to cook delicious meals from your home kitchen. The Typhur app provides a wide variety of well-crafted, professional and delicious recipes, allowing you to cook at ease, through videos and step by step recipe guidance. The Typhur app can manage all your Typhur smart devices, enables you to remotely control and upgrade your device software, whilst receiving cooking notifications and reminders. In addition, we provide many tips and tricks that can help you cook, and advise you on how to use Typhur's kitchen appliances. Features Guided recipes: We provide step-by-step recipe guidance with videos, giving detailed instructions for each step. Whether you are a beginner or a professional, you can easily follow the video to get perfect results. Manage devices: Manage all your Typhur kitchen appliances through the mobile app. Regardless of where you are within the house, as long as you can connect to the Internet, you can remotely control all of your devices. You can monitor the cooking process and receive necessary reminder information. Transfer recipe to device: Find your favorite recipes on your phone and transfer the recipe to the device, to seamlessly switch between the phone and the device. You're one tap away, it's that simple! Custom: Customize your cooking parameters and save to your custom to make cooking even easier. You can quick-start by selecting your custom time/temperature to speed up the process.
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Verdict
recteq and Typhur both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 62% of Typhur's written reviews are positive against 32% of recteq's. Typhur also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). recteq's advantage is ratings volume (25K vs 7.1K). 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 — 4.8 for recteq against 4.8 for Typhur. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25K and 7.1K respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 32% of recteq's written reviews are positive against 62% of Typhur's.
recteq ships an update every 5 weeks, Typhur every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on September 28, 2026.
| Parameter | recteq | Typhur |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (25K ratings) — better | 4.8 (7.1K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 31.8% of reviews | 62.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25K — better | 7.1K |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Recteq, LLC | Typhur Inc. |
Customer experience
recteq
Typhur
User reviews
recteq
From 25K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Excellent temperature control
- 🚀 Consistent performance
- 👍 Great customer service
- 👍 Durable and well-built
- 👍 Helpful app features
Room to improve
- 🐛 Inconsistent notifications
- 🐛 Connectivity issues
- 🔍 Limited app functionality
- 🔍 Cumbersome app interface
- 🔍 Removed remote start feature
Typhur
From 7.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and efficient cooking
- 👍 Easy to use and clean
- 🔥 Cooks food to perfection
- 🌟 Great for small households
- 📱 Useful app with presets
Room to improve
- 🐛 Connectivity issues with app
- 🔌 Requires app for full functionality
- 📚 Lacking recipe options for newer models
- 💰 Expensive for some users
Bugs and requests
recteq
Reported bugs
3 issues- Probe temperature inaccuracies
- App crashes when accessing temperature history
- Unreliable app notifications
Requested features
4 requests- Customizable alarm tones
- Ability to set timers within the app
- Improved temperature history and data visualization
- Seamless integration between app and website recipes
Typhur
Reported bugs
3 issues- App frequently loses connection to device
- Self-cleaning feature not working without app
- Preset temperatures/times not always accurate
Requested features
3 requests- Custom preset options
- Apple Watch app integration
- Improved local connectivity without app
In-app purchases
recteq
No in-app purchases
Typhur
No in-app purchases








