recteq vs Sausage Calculator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
recteq
Remotely manage your grill's temperature and monitor meat probes. Receive alerts, access recipes, and shop for accessories directly from your device. Offers advanced calibration for grill temperature sensors.
- Remote grill control
- Meat probe temperature monitoring
- Grill temperature monitoring
- Advanced temperature calibration
- Recipe browsing
- Shopping for accessories
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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.
Sausage Calculator
This app simplifies sausage making by instantly calculating ingredient ratios based on total meat and fat weight. It offers detailed options for meat-to-fat ratios, salt, curing salts, binders, liquids, and casings, with both simple and advanced modes. Users can also create, save, and load custom recipes.
- Instant ingredient ratio calculation
- Customizable meat-to-fat ratios
- Adjustable salt percentage
- Support for curing salts, binders, and liquids
- Multiple casing types
- Simple and Advanced calculation modes
- Save and load custom recipes
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Sausage takes the math out of sausage making. Enter the total weight of your meat and fat, and every ingredient is calculated instantly, so your ratios come out right every batch. No account, no sign-in, no internet needed. Open the app and start calculating. CALCULATOR • Meat-to-fat ratios: classic 70/30 or 80/20 • Salt adjustable from 1% to 3% • Prague Powder #1 curing salt for smoked, cured, or fermented sausages • 11 binders, from non-fat dry milk to potato starch and egg whites, each with recommended ranges • 20 liquids, including ice water, beer, wine, stock, and juice • 9 casing types • Simple mode for quick batches, Advanced mode for full control • Work in grams or pounds and ounces; additives always shown in precise grams RECIPES • 6 built-in classics, including Italian sweet sausage, German bratwurst, and Spanish chorizo • Create, edit, and save your own recipes with spices, liquids, and instructions • Load any recipe into the calculator and scale it to your batch size • Your recipes stay on your device Made for home sausage makers, hunters processing game, BBQ teams, and anyone who wants consistent results. Light and dark themes included.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: recteq at none against Sausage Calculator's shown. recteq also leads on ratings volume (25K vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 6 months). Sausage Calculator's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Sausage Calculator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: recteq has 25K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
recteq ships an update every 5 weeks, Sausage Calculator every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | recteq | Sausage Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (25K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 30.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 25K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Recteq, LLC | Warped Technologies LLC |
Customer experience
recteq
Sausage Calculator
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
Sausage Calculator
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
recteq
No in-app purchases
Sausage Calculator
No in-app purchases
Questions
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