Hudson's Grill vs Sparkk Grill
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hudson's Grill
Explore menu items and categories before your visit. Discover new dishes and plan your meal with detailed information. This app helps you decide what to order before you even arrive.
- Browse menu categories
- View item details
- Plan your meal
- Restaurant information
- Discover new dishes
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The “Hudson's Grill” iOS app provides all the information you need to know before heading to us and deciding what you want to try today. Browse through the categories and items to pick what you crave the most.
Sparkk Grill
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hudson's Grill at none against Sparkk Grill's 1. Hudson's Grill also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 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
Both are free to download. Sparkk Grill sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hudson's Grill asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Hudson's Grill | Sparkk Grill |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jacob Ryvkin | ALTHEON LLC |
In-app purchases
Hudson's Grill
No in-app purchases
Sparkk Grill
- SparkkGrill$9.99
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