Pippa vs Slowboat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pippa
This app connects to a smart cooking device to provide AI-powered guidance for your cooking. Monitor pan temperatures, track cooking times, and receive alerts to prevent burning. It also offers guided recipes and can transform your stove into a sous vide cooker.
- AI cooking guidance
- Real-time pan temperature monitoring
- Automatic cooking timers
- Burning food alerts
- Guided recipe mode
- Sous vide conversion
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Use your iPhone or iPad to experience the future of AI cooking with the Pippa Smart Cooking Assistant. Once you own a Pippa Smart Cooking Assistant, you can connect your iPhone or iPad to get state of the art AI cooking guidance. The Pippa Smart Cooking Assistant sticks above your stove and monitors your cooking, measuring the temperatures of each of your pans. Using your iOS device, you can view the temperature of each pan, helping you to judge just the right temperature to fry the perfect steak, or cook a beautifully soft poached egg. The app also automatically times your cooking too. Unsure how long the pasta has been cooking? Just check using your Pippa app. Food starting to burn? Pippa will warn you, saving your food and your saucepan. Pippa also has a guided recipe mode to that can help everyone from the complete novice to the experienced cook produce perfect results every time. Pippa speaks to you, guiding you just the right pan temperature, and tells when to add your food, when to turn it over and when it is ready to serve. It can also turn your regular stove into a sous vide cooker. New recipes are added all the time.
Slowboat
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Pippa at every 2 months against Slowboat's every 24 months. Slowboat's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pippa ships an update every 2 months, Slowboat every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pippa | Slowboat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 24 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 46 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | mypippa.me | slow boat limited |
In-app purchases
Pippa
No in-app purchases
Slowboat
No in-app purchases
