INKBIRD vs Tempwise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
INKBIRD
Transform your home into a smart environment with intuitive controls for appliances and automated adjustments of temperature and humidity. Remotely monitor food temperatures and set custom alarms for optimal cooking, creating a more connected and enjoyable life.
- Smart home appliance control
- Automated temperature and humidity adjustment
- Remote food temperature monitoring
- Customizable temperature alarms
- Family network setup
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INKBIRD helps you create a smart home, smart life. We make hard things simple by convenient and fast operation, clear and intuitive interface, considerate and practical functions. Here, you can smartly make home appliances intelligent and automated adjustment of temperature and humidity so as create an optimal environment for your family. Here, you can remotely monitor the food temperature and customize temperature alarms to always cook delicious meals for your family. Here, you can set up a family network of things of your own and experience a more wonderful, more enjoyable life.
Tempwise
Control and monitor your smart home devices, including food thermometers, sensors, and sous vide cookers. Build your own IoT home for a more convenient smart living experience.
- Connect and control Tempwise devices
- Monitor smart controllers
- Track food thermometers
- Manage smart sensors
- Operate sous vide cookers
- Build custom IoT home setups
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Tempwise is making efforts to help our customers build a better smart home and a better smart home living. Now we can connect and control all of our Tempwise devices in one app to make complicated things simple and to make hard things easy. With this app, we can control and monitor our Tempwise smart controllers, food thermometers, smart sensors and sous vide cookers, and we can build our own IoT home for a smart home living.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: INKBIRD at 6.8K against Tempwise's 1. INKBIRD also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and device support (4 vs 2). Tempwise's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tempwise holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: INKBIRD has 6.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
INKBIRD ships an update fortnightly, Tempwise every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | INKBIRD | Tempwise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (6.8K ratings) | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6.8K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 398 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shenzhen Inkbird Technology Co. Ltd | Shenzhen Xingkong Chuanglian E - Commerce Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
INKBIRD
Tempwise
Bugs and requests
INKBIRD
Reported bugs
5 issues- Custom menu names reset after exiting app
- Widgets not working as expected
- Frequent app crashes and disconnections
- Sensor temperature readings inconsistent
- Unable to remove/delete connected devices
Requested features
5 requests- Add dark mode option
- Improve temperature graph functionality
- Allow custom alarm sounds
- Implement low temperature alerts
- Add support for more devices
Tempwise
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
INKBIRD
No in-app purchases
Tempwise
No in-app purchases
