Comparison

Brine! vs TotalCtrl Home

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

Head to head
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.

About

TotalCtrl Home

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TotalCtrl Home is a digital inventory solution to be used in your household to get track of all the food in your pantry, fridge, and freezer, prevent food waste and get recipes based on your inventory. Why use TotalCtrl Home? 1. Take control of your inventory. Get TotalCtrl over your inventory based on the amount, price, and expiration date. 2. Cook meals with the list of suggested recipes based on the products expiring soon and the products you have in your inventory. 3. Prevent food waste. You won’t forget about your products anymore since you will have all the items tracked with expiration date. 4. Plan your food purchasing with a digital shopping list and don’t use your paper list anymore.

Screenshots

Brine!4 screens
TotalCtrl Home4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: TotalCtrl Home at Free against Brine!'s $0.99. TotalCtrl Home also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). Brine!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and chart position (#174 vs unranked). On ads 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

TotalCtrl Home is free to download; Brine! costs $0.99 up front. TotalCtrl Home sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $2.49 per month. Brine! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brine! ships an update every 2 months, TotalCtrl Home fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Brine! versus TotalCtrl Home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrine!TotalCtrl Home
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#174 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.09.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFoodlab GmbHTotalCtrl AS

In-app purchases

None

Brine!

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

TotalCtrl Home

Subscriptions1
  • TotalCtrl Premium$2.491 Month

Questions

Is Brine! free?
Brine! costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is TotalCtrl Home free?
TotalCtrl Home is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Brine! or TotalCtrl Home have ads?
Neither Brine! nor TotalCtrl Home shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brine! or TotalCtrl Home?
Brine! ships an update every 2 months, and TotalCtrl Home fortnightly. Most recently, Brine! was updated on September 24, 2026 and TotalCtrl Home on September 15, 2026.

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