Brine! vs Just Bread
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Just Bread
Discover recipes for healthy and delicious homemade bread. This app guides you through the baking process with easy steps, includes a hydration calculator, and offers reminders. Enjoy the simple pleasure of fresh, preservative-free bread.
- Homemade bread recipes
- Hydration calculator
- Step-by-step guidance
- Baking reminders
- Yeast and sourdough options
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Just Bread is an application created for all lovers of home baking. Find a recipe for tasty and healthy breadstuff, create homemade bread, and see for yourself how simple it is! Use the Hydration Calculator tool to quickly calculate the irrigation of your bread. Choose the right ratio of water to flour and leaven, and learn about their dependence. You will gain knowledge and experience on how hydration effect the type of bread you create. Every beginner will be able to get through a few easy steps to enjoy real, valuable, and delicious bread. Don't worry if sourdough bread is overly time-consuming for you - JustBread also includes recipes for yeast bread. Be up to date with the recipe's steps and set a dedicated reminder. A house that smells of bread is a memory that you always come back to. Homemade bread stays fresh longer and tastes better because it doesn't contain unnecessary chemical ingredients or preservatives. The ingredients of the bread are flour, water, salt, and depending on the recipe, leaven, or yeast. Grains and spices are also an interesting and tasty addition that gives your bread a unique flavor and expressiveness. Find out how pleasant baking bread at home can be - it's a relaxing and appreciative ritual that boosts your mood. A gently cooled, crispy loaf disappears at a blistering pace, especially when you spread slices of bread with butter. And it's all only bread. Just Bread! Help us improve the application - we believe that every opinion/feedback is valuable and necessary for the development of new functionalities.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Just Bread at Free against Brine!'s $0.99. Just Bread also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Brine!'s advantage is chart position (#169 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
Just Bread is free to download; Brine! costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Just Bread holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Brine!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Just Bread's.
Brine! ships an update every 2 months, Just Bread every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and June 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brine! | Just Bread |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #169 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Foodlab GmbH | Oskar Poprawski |
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Brine!
Just Bread
In-app purchases
Brine!
No in-app purchases
Just Bread
No in-app purchases









