Comparison

Plentiful vs Sparkk Grill

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

Head to head
About

Plentiful

Instantly connect with food pantries to find food, manage visits, and receive updates. This app features a map of over 40,000 food pantries across the U.S., making food access easier for everyone.

Highlights
  • Find food pantries
  • Manage pantry visits
  • Receive updates from pantries
  • Access Map of 40,000+ pantries
  • Locate food resources
Features
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Plentiful helps you instantly connect with food pantries: find food pantries, make and manage visits, and receive updates from the food pantries you visit. Today we’re proud to introduce the Plentiful Access Map, a map of more than 40,000 food pantries across the U.S. Free and easy to use, Plentiful’s Access Map helps anyone, anywhere, find the food they need. This map bridges the gap between food banks and the communities and food pantries who make food access possible. In this moment of uncertainty and rising need, we hope this app can be a small act of stability and a way for our neighbors to find the help they need.

About

Sparkk Grill

Features
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Your Spark Grill still works. The app that came with it doesn't. When Spark Grills shut down, the app went with it — and a grill full of perfectly good Bluetooth probes suddenly had nothing to talk to. Sparkk Grill is an independent replacement, built from the ground up to bring those probes back to life. Connect, and you get what you had before: both meat probes and the grill itself, live on your phone. LIVE TEMPERATURES Watch all three channels at once — two meat probes and the grill. Big, readable numbers you can check from across the yard, and a running graph of the whole cook so you can see exactly how the fire is behaving. The card changes colour as you go. Warm while it's climbing, gold when it settles on target, deep red when it runs past. You can read it at a glance without putting your drink down. ALARMS THAT ACTUALLY REACH YOU Set a target on any probe and get told the moment it's hit. Alerts are sent as time-sensitive notifications, so they cut through Focus and Do Not Disturb — the phone can stay in your pocket while you're at the grill. Sparkk Grill keeps listening in the background, so a long brisket doesn't need you staring at the screen for twelve hours. SET THE GRILL TEMPERATURE Tell the grill what to hold and it holds it. Sparkk Grill sends the setpoint straight to the controller and confirms the grill accepted it, rather than just hoping it landed. DONENESS GUIDE Built-in targets for beef, pork, poultry, lamb, seafood and low-and-slow barbecue. USDA safe minimum temperatures are marked clearly and kept separate from the pull temperatures cooks actually use — and anything below a safe minimum is flagged as such, so you always know which one you're looking at. Brisket at 203°F. Chicken thigh at 175°F. Steak however you like it. ONE PAYMENT, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION Try everything free for three days. After that, a single $9.99 purchase unlocks the app permanently. No subscription, nothing renews, nothing recurs. It's shared with your family group. NO GRILL HANDY? Turn on Demo mode in Settings to see the whole app running against a simulated cook. COMPATIBILITY Works with Spark Grill hardware over Bluetooth LE. Requires iOS 17 or later. Your grill must be powered on and within Bluetooth range, and connected to only one phone at a time. IMPORTANT — NOT AFFILIATED WITH SPARK GRILLS Sparkk Grill is an independent product. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by, or connected to Spark Grills, its former owners, or any successor company. "Spark Grill" is referenced only to describe the hardware this app works with. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. This app is not a substitute for safe food handling. Cooking temperatures are guidance only — always follow current USDA guidance for the food you are cooking, and never rely on a single reading when food safety is at stake.

Screenshots

Plentiful4 screens
Sparkk Grill4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plentiful at none against Sparkk Grill's 1. Plentiful also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price and ads 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

Both are free to download. Sparkk Grill sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Plentiful asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Plentiful versus Sparkk Grill: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlentifulSparkk Grill
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (765 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews60.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings765 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB1 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHelp KitchenALTHEON LLC

In-app purchases

None

Plentiful

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Sparkk Grill

One-time1
  • SparkkGrill$9.99

Questions

Is Plentiful free?
Plentiful is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sparkk Grill free?
Sparkk Grill is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Plentiful or Sparkk Grill have ads?
Neither Plentiful nor Sparkk Grill shows ads.

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