GRILL BBQ vs Grill Control
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GRILL BBQ
This app connects to a smart Bluetooth wireless thermometer to monitor your cooking. It offers full control over the hardware, allowing you to select meat types and desired doneness, and notifies you when your food is ready. View real-time temperature graphs and a history of your past cooks.
- Bluetooth thermometer connection
- Full hardware control
- Supports 2 probes
- Meat and doneness selection
- Cooking readiness notifications
- Real-time temperature graphs
- Cook history log
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The Grill BBQ App supports the smart Bluetooth wireless thermometer. - Convenient IN-APP Bluetooth connection. - Full control over hardware - Supports 2 probes - Choose your meat and doneness directly - Let’s you know when your meat will be ready - See the real-time graph of your temperatures - See the last cooks in your history tab - Full IN-APP manual for the hardware device. Languages supported English and German.
Grill Control
This app connects to a smart adapter for gas grills, allowing you to remotely control burner temperature via your phone. A companion device can link multiple burners for even heat distribution.
- Remote burner control
- Temperature monitoring
- Smart adapter integration
- Companion device linking
- Even heat distribution
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Grill Control is a smart, battery-powered adapter for gas grills that simply attaches to the control knob. With the help of a temperature sensor installed in the grill, the corresponding burner is controlled via an app. With the separately available Companion Device, multiple burners on the grill can be linked together for even more evenly distributed heat.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Grill Control at 5.0 against GRILL BBQ's 1.8. Grill Control also leads on review sentiment (57% vs 38%). GRILL BBQ's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Grill Control holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GRILL BBQ has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of GRILL BBQ's written reviews are positive against 57% of Grill Control's.
GRILL BBQ ships an update fortnightly, Grill Control every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | GRILL BBQ | Grill Control |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.8 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 37.5% of reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 苏华 赵 | Lakeside Innovation GmbH |
Customer experience
GRILL BBQ
Grill Control
In-app purchases
GRILL BBQ
No in-app purchases
Grill Control
No in-app purchases
