Comparison

Brine! vs Roast Master

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

Roast Master

Features
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Roast Master puts your roasting data and an AI coach in one app. Log every roast, see it clearly, and get AI coaching on exactly what to change next — batch after batch. AI ROASTING COACH Roast, log your curve, and AI analyzes it — your temperature curve, your events, your cupping — then gives you a focused, practical tip for your next batch. It's like having an experienced roaster review the roast with you and tell you exactly what to try next. SEE YOUR ROASTING DATA Every roast, captured and visualized: • Full temperature curves — Bean Temp, Environmental Temp, and Rate of Rise • Key events — charge, first crack, drop — with development time (DTR) • SCA-style cupping scores: aroma, flavor, acidity, body, balance, sweetness, and more • Agtron roast color readings YOUR ROASTING DASHBOARD • Roast DNA: flavor radar, Agtron distribution, and DTR gauges • Cupping trends over time and batch comparisons • Activity heatmap to see your roasting rhythm at a glance FOR ROASTERS WHO WANT TO IMPROVE Every batch becomes data you can review and compare — with AI helping you turn it into your next, better roast. FREE & PREMIUM • Free: roast logging, curves, cupping, dashboard, and PDF export • Premium: a generous allowance of AI Coaching sessions Export any roast to PDF, free. No ads. Start roasting smarter today. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://roast-master.app/privacy

Screenshots

Brine!4 screens
Roast Master4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Roast Master at Free against Brine!'s $0.99. Roast Master also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months). Brine!'s advantage is chart position (#192 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brine! ships an update every 2 months, Roast Master every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Brine! versus Roast Master: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrine!Roast Master
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#192 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB66 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFoodlab GmbHSeokmin Bang

In-app purchases

None

Brine!

No in-app purchases

None

Roast Master

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brine! free?
Brine! costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Roast Master free?
Roast Master is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Brine! or Roast Master have ads?
Neither Brine! nor Roast Master shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Brine! or Roast Master?
Brine! ships an update every 2 months, and Roast Master every 2 weeks. Most recently, Brine! was updated on October 29, 2026 and Roast Master on October 31, 2026.

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