EcoChef vs Tempwise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EcoChef
This app helps with grilling and cooking by providing multiple timers for simultaneous tracking of food items. It also predicts preheating times for grills and ovens, allowing for better meal planning and setting completion alarms.
- Multiple simultaneous cooking timers
- Track time per side cooked
- Predict grill/oven preheat times
- Set preheat completion alarms
- Simple cooking assistance
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EcoChef is a simple app designed to help with grilling & cooking: • Several timers that can be used to simultaneously keep track of items cooking, including how much time each side has been cooked. • Predict how long it will take to preheat your grill or oven, allowing you to plan ahead and set an alarm for estimated completion. To our knowledge, this is the only cooking timer available that can predict preheating times.
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 rating: EcoChef at 5.0 against Tempwise's 4.0. EcoChef also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
EcoChef holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
EcoChef ships an update fortnightly, Tempwise every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EcoChef | Tempwise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 87 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Birge & Fuller, LLC | Shenzhen Xingkong Chuanglian E - Commerce Co., Ltd. |
Customer experience
EcoChef
Tempwise
In-app purchases
EcoChef
No in-app purchases
Tempwise
No in-app purchases
