Comparison

Brine! vs ChefScaler

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

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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

ChefScaler

Easily scale ingredient quantities for your recipes based on the desired number of servings. Store your favorite recipes with details like photos and ratings, and access them anytime for quick adjustments. Supports standard metric units.

Highlights
  • Adjust ingredient quantities with one click
  • Instantly view adjusted ingredient amounts
  • Store recipes with photos and ratings
  • Supports metric units
  • Dark Mode support
Features
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ChefScaler helps you to adjust ingredients quantities in your recipes. With one click of a button, ChefScaler adjusts all your ingredients quantities in your favorite recipes, according to the number of servings you need. You only have to enter your recipe once into ChefScaler. Then you can bring up the recipe anytime you want, just change the number of servings, and instantly you get the adjusted ingredients' quantities for your recipe. Current major features: 1. One button clicks to change the number of serves in recipe 2. Instantly show all adjusted ingredients quantities in recipe 3. Store recipes with Photo, Rating, Easiness, etc. 4. Ingredient supports standard metric units (US units will be supported in future release) Other features 1. Dark Mode support 2. Optimized for iPhone 11 and SE2

Screenshots

Brine!4 screens
ChefScaler4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: ChefScaler at Free against Brine!'s $0.99. Brine!'s advantage is rating (3.0 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 16 months). On ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

ChefScaler 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

Brine! holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brine! ships an update every 2 months, ChefScaler every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Brine! versus ChefScaler: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrine!ChefScaler
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 16 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#173 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFoodlab GmbHMENG KUONG LEI

Customer experience

Brine!

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

ChefScaler

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Brine!

No in-app purchases

None

ChefScaler

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brine! free?
Brine! costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChefScaler free?
ChefScaler is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Brine! or ChefScaler?
Brine! is rated higher. Brine! averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while ChefScaler averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Brine! or ChefScaler have ads?
Neither Brine! nor ChefScaler shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brine! or ChefScaler?
Brine! ships an update every 2 months, and ChefScaler every 16 months. Most recently, Brine! was updated on September 8, 2026 and ChefScaler on July 5, 2026.

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