Comparison

Dinnerbox vs Smokeplan

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

Head to head
About

Dinnerbox

Order pre-cooked frozen meals delivered to your door in South Africa. Choose from various meal box sizes and earn loyalty points for discounts on future purchases. Enjoy healthy, sustainable meals without preservatives, MSG, or stabilizers.

Highlights
  • Pre-cooked frozen meal delivery
  • Multiple meal box sizes
  • DinnerDosh loyalty points
  • 15% discount redemption
  • No preservatives, MSG, or stabilizers
  • Sustainable ingredients
Features
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Dinnerbox delivers pre-cooked frozen meals to your door within South Africa. Most meals can be ordered in Kids, 10, 20 and 30 meal boxes. Enjoy earning DinnerDosh loyalty points with every purchase and redeem 15% discount after reaching your points redemption target. Meals are delivered frozen within 4-5 working days, freeing you up to enjoy more time to enjoy life. With great taste comes great responsibility and our ingredients contribute substantially to what defines Dinnerbox. It is one of our passions! We are a team of entrepreneurs, restauranteurs and chefs who are passionate about food, ingredients, sustainability and; giving you more time to do the things you love! The Dinnerbox was born from our love of cooking and an insatiable appetite to provide our customers with convenient, healthy and sustainable meals. So much so that we do not use preservatives, stabilisers or MSG in any of our meals.

About

Smokeplan

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When do I light the pit so we eat at six? That is the only question that matters on cook day, and no thermometer answers it. Smokeplan does. Put in a serve time and get the whole backward runway out: start thaw days ahead, dry brine, trim, light the pit, meat on, the expected stall window, the wrap decision, the pull, the rest, and slice - with a notification at every milestone. Smokeplan works with any smoker and any thermometer you already own. No probe to buy, no account. HOW IT PLANS - Backward Timeline: serve time in, full milestone schedule out - including the days-ahead thaw and brine, and the stall window annotated so the scary plateau reads as expected. - Honest ranges, not folk math: every forecast is a range ("6.5 to 9.5 hours, likely about 8") with a tap-through "why". Schedules are built on the pessimistic end, so early just means a longer, better rest. - Hardware-free live ETA: on cook day, log an occasional internal-temp waypoint by tap or Siri and watch the time-to-eat narrow, with an explicit stall model. When the plateau hits, the stall card tells you it is normal. - A journal that computes: predicted-vs-actual on every cook, feeding a personal calibration that learns how YOUR pit really runs. FREE, AND USEFUL FOREVER - Plan the three hero cuts (brisket, pork butt, baby backs) with the full timeline and milestone notifications - Live Cook Mode with temperature waypoints and the live ETA - The rest and hold timer - Five cooks in the journal PRO - Own it once with Lifetime (24.99 USD), or subscribe: 9.99 USD per year with a 7-day free trial, or 1.99 USD per month. - The full library of about 14 documented cuts, plus custom cuts and an editable coefficient editor. - Personal calibration - every logged cook tunes a per-cut multiplier so your forecast bands tighten over time. Segment per smoker when you own several. - Make it fit solver - one tap proposes plans that fit an earliest-start you can live with. Multi-meat sync back-schedules several proteins to one serve time. - Unlimited cook journal with photos - predicted-vs-actual on every entry feeds calibration automatically. - Shareable cook cards, waypoint temperature charts, Home and Lock Screen widgets, and turkey mode presets. SMOKEPLAN PLANS SCHEDULES - IT DOES NOT JUDGE DONENESS Cook to temperature and probe feel, never to the clock - the plan just gets you there on time. Doneness is your thermometer and probe tenderness, never a prediction. USDA safe-minimum, thaw, and hold figures are shown as cited public-domain guidance; seed targets never sit below the USDA minimum, and setting a poultry target below it shows a standing reminder. All model coefficients are community-standard starting points that your own cooks tune. Smokeplan is not affiliated with any grill, smoker, or thermometer maker. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your cooks stay with you, on this iPhone. There is no account to make and nothing is uploaded to a server. The forecasting, the live ETA fitting, and the calibration all run on your device. Smokeplan is designed exclusively for iPhone. IMPORTANT DATA NOTICE Smokeplan stores all data locally on your iPhone. Aside from generating a share card you choose to send, the app has no built-in data export, import, or backup. Your data is included in iOS Backups (iCloud Backup or Finder) when those are enabled. If you delete Smokeplan without an iOS Backup available, your data will be permanently lost. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS The annual and monthly subscriptions auto-renew until canceled. Renewal is charged within 24 hours before the period ends unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours prior. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Manage or cancel in Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. The Lifetime purchase is a single charge with no recurring billing. SUPPORT captainlongevity@gmail.com Privacy Policy: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/smokeplan/privacy Terms of Service: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/smokeplan/terms

Screenshots

Dinnerbox4 screens
Smokeplan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dinnerbox at none against Smokeplan's 3. Dinnerbox also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Smokeplan sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Dinnerbox asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Dinnerbox versus Smokeplan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDinnerboxSmokeplan
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (36 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings36 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSean Dunn慧慧 高

In-app purchases

None

Dinnerbox

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Smokeplan

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Pro Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime$24.99

Questions

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

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