Hunter NODE vs Primo Grill Life
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hunter NODE
Control your landscape irrigation system remotely via Bluetooth. This app allows for easy programming, scheduling, and monitoring of watering cycles without needing to access the valve box. Manage multiple controllers, set custom schedules, and receive important status updates directly on your smartphone.
- Remote controller management
- Custom watering schedules
- Manual irrigation control
- Sensor activation
- Controller status monitoring
- Offline schedule editing
- Controller event logs
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NODE-BT is a Bluetooth®-enabled, app-configured irrigation controller from Hunter Industries that lets you automatically irrigate any plant material lacking AC power and not having to open the valve box! NODE-BT is quick to install, and swift to program and operate. The app provides convenient features originally on NODE, now with new enhancements all accessed from a smartphone. This means no more crossing traffic to get to roadway medians, searching for controllers in overgrown bushes, and opening dirty and potentially dangerous valve boxes. This app allows you to: • Remotely manage unlimited NODE-BT controllers up to 50' (15 m) away • Manually start, stop, or suspend irrigation for up to 99 days • Configure watering schedules with 3 programs and 8 start times each • Activate rain or soil moisture sensors, and set monthly seasonal adjust • See controller status, total watering and next start times, watering calendar, and irrigation logs • View battery health and signal status • Set battery change reminders every 3, 6, 9, or 12 months • Pin controllers on a map for faster locating • Copy and paste schedules from controller to controller for faster setup • View and edit irrigation schedules offline • View controller event logs and share with other members • Assign images and rename stations and controllers • Add a passcode to each controller for additional security The Bluetooth® word mark and logos are registered trademarks owned by Bluetooth SIG Inc. and any use of such marks by Hunter Industries is under license.
Primo Grill Life
This app connects to a Primo Plus BBQ Controller, allowing users to remotely monitor and control their grill's temperature and food probes. It offers features for setting target temperatures, alarms, and meat types, ensuring perfectly smoked BBQ.
- Remote grill monitoring
- Temperature control
- Food probe tracking
- Customizable alarms
- Meat type selection
- WiFi setup
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This app connects to your Primo Plus BBQ Controller to monitor and control your grill. Monitor, manage and perfectly smoke your favourite BBQ from your iPhone while getting the weekend shopping done! Stress less, enjoy more, smoke perfectly! The Primo Grill Life App includes: - Status screen provides a 'single look' status of the pit and food probes - Setup Your Pit screen enables you to dial in your desired target pit temperature, along with high and low threshold alarms and a fan override switch. - Setup Probe screen enables you to choose your target temperatures, alarms and nick names associated with a probe. You select the meat type associated with the probe, ie 'Pork'. For each primary meat type, there are multiple meat and doneness combinations, ie 'Steak (medium rare) - 130F' within Beef. - Settings screen to customise your pit type, temperature scale, whether alarm sounds are on and the desired alarm sound effect. - WiFi Setup screen to pair your phone and Primo Grill Plus Controller and provide your WiFi credentials for the Controller to use
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Primo Grill Life at 4.0 against Hunter NODE's 3.1. Primo Grill Life also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Hunter NODE's advantage is review sentiment (23% vs 0%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). 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.
Primo Grill Life holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hunter NODE has 59 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 23% of Hunter NODE's written reviews are positive against 0% of Primo Grill Life's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hunter NODE ships an update fortnightly, Primo Grill Life every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hunter NODE | Primo Grill Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (59 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 22.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 59 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 127 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Hunter Industries | Smartfire Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Hunter NODE
Primo Grill Life
In-app purchases
Hunter NODE
No in-app purchases
Primo Grill Life
No in-app purchases
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