Comparison

PayMeal vs Brine!

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

Head to head
About

PayMeal

Discover nearby kitchens and satisfy your cravings with this app. Easily order food or arrange for delivery, bringing a wide variety of culinary options directly to you.

Highlights
  • Discover nearby kitchens
  • Satisfy cravings
  • Order food
  • Arrange delivery
  • Food at your fingertips
Features
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PayMeal is the perfect match for your cravings and the best available kitchen near you. Whatever you have an appetite for we can help you find it. Choose to order or get delivery wherever possible. All at your fingertips. PayMeal, we bring food to you.

About

Brine!

Easily calculate brining recipes for various meats, poultry, fish, and seafood. Learn about different brining techniques and gain background knowledge to improve juiciness, flavor, and texture.

Highlights
  • Customizable recipes for various meats
  • Integrated calculators for recipe adjustments
  • Expert background knowledge on brining
  • Support for equilibrium, wet gradient, and dry brining
  • Calculators for custom salt concentrations
Features
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Brine! - The Brining Calculator Finally an easy way to calculate your brining recipe. Do you brine your meat, poultry, fish and seafood? You should! Brining makes your meal juicier, tender and more flavourful! Brining will improve your perfect thanksgiving turkey just as easily as your BBQ meat. Are you unsure how exactly you should brine your produce? Or deterred by complicated percentages and procedures? Then you need this app! Recipes, background knowledge and calculators: "Brine!" includes everything you need to master your brining game! Equilibrium brining, wet gradient brining or dry brining, it's all in the app so that you can use your favourite technique. KEY FEATURES: • CUSTOM RECIPES for Fish fillet, shrimps, chicken, duck and turkey as well as pork and beef. Your favourite meat isn't listed? No worries: You can easily adapt an existing recipe! • CALCULATORS EVERYWHERE: Your thanksgiving turkey is heavier than in the recipe? Somebody invited the neighbours to your BBQ? When it comes to brining, these things make a huge difference! We include calculators everywhere so you don't have to worry about it. • YOU'RE THE EXPERT? Use the custom calculator to use your own preferred final salt concentrations in your food. • BACKGROUND KNOW-HOW: What brining process should I use for what meat? What final salt concentration? How much salt should I use, and should I add sugar or curing salt? These and more questions about processes and principles are answered and bring you up to speed quickly. • BRINING TECHNIQUES: Equilibrium brining, wet gradient bringing and dry brining are the three important techniques in brining. Which one is best? It depends! Because each process has ist own advantages, we let you decide. Switch between techniques easily! WHY BRINE BEFORE COOKING? When brining, salt (and sometimes sugar and curing salt) penetrates into the meat before cooking. This has multiple desired effects: • JUICIER PRODUCE: Brining before cooking makes meat, poultry, fish and seafood juicier. Even after cooking is finished, the brined food will retain more moisture. • FLAVOUR: The brining mixture slowly enters the produce through osmosis. During the cooking process, it becomes evenly distributed throughout the produce and enhances ist taste! • SURFACE TEXTURE: You're aiming for a beautifully brown and flavourful bark? Brining, especially dry brining, will help you! Through the high salt concentration, the outer protein layer partially brakes down, encouraging a quicker Maillard reaction. Wonderful flavours and a bite to match! All the brining knowledge you need - summarized in one compact app with custom calculators. DOWNLOAD "Brine!" NOW! App content in English only. We are always excited to hear from you! If you have any feedback, questions, or concerns, please contact us at app@tastelab.ch.

Screenshots

PayMeal4 screens
Brine!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PayMeal at Free against Brine!'s $0.99. PayMeal also leads on rating (3.5 vs 3.0). Brine!'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 6 months) and chart position (#171 vs unranked). On ratings volume, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

PayMeal is free to download; Brine! costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

PayMeal holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PayMeal ships an update every 6 months, Brine! every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
PayMeal versus Brine!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPayMealBrine!
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating3.5 (4 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings4 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#171 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developersherwin jupiterFoodlab GmbH

Customer experience

PayMeal

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

Brine!

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

None

PayMeal

No in-app purchases

None

Brine!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PayMeal free?
PayMeal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brine! free?
Brine! costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PayMeal or Brine!?
PayMeal is rated higher. PayMeal averages 3.5 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Brine! averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do PayMeal or Brine! have ads?
Neither PayMeal nor Brine! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PayMeal or Brine!?
PayMeal ships an update every 6 months, and Brine! every 2 months. Most recently, PayMeal was updated on June 1, 2026 and Brine! on September 24, 2026.

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