iMenu App vs TempSpike
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iMenu App
Create a digital recipe book to store your favorite dishes with photos. Access your recipes across all your devices and easily share them with friends and family.
- Digital recipe book
- Add photos to recipes
- Cross-device synchronization
- Share recipes easily
- Personalized recipe collection
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Remember Grandma's old recipe notebook, full of notes, stains and loose pages? iMenu is its modern version: your recipe book and shopping list, always synced and always within reach. Create and organize your recipes with ingredients, steps, cooking times and photos — just like on paper, minus the risk of losing pages. Automatically generate your shopping list from missing ingredients, organized by grocery aisle thanks to automatic category recognition. Share recipes and lists with anyone who has iMenu — not just family: everyone sees updates in real time, whether you're planning dinner or shopping together, like passing the notebook around, but instantly. Want to share with someone who doesn't have the app? Export to PDF and send it to anyone, or print it just like a page from an old recipe book. Keep your recipe of the day or shopping list always at hand with two dedicated widgets, right on your Home Screen. Available on iPhone, iPad and Mac with an interface designed for iOS 26.
TempSpike
Monitor your barbecue's temperature and time remotely using a wireless Bluetooth connection. Receive immediate alerts when your food reaches the set temperature or time.
- Wireless Bluetooth connectivity
- Remote temperature monitoring
- Remote time monitoring
- Instant alerts
- Set custom temperatures
- Set custom times
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TempSpike is a wireless bluetooth barbecue temperature and time monitoring program, connected to wireless bluetooth, you can remotely set the temperature or time, when the temperature reaches the specified time, it will remind you immediately
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: iMenu App at 100% against TempSpike's 42%. TempSpike's advantage is price (Free vs $1.99) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). On ads and in-app purchases 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
TempSpike is free to download; iMenu App costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
iMenu App ships an update every 3 months, TempSpike every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iMenu App | TempSpike |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | — | 4.6 (2.8K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 42.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 2.8K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marco Biscuola | iTronics Co., Limited |
Customer experience
iMenu App
TempSpike
Bugs and requests
iMenu App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
TempSpike
Reported bugs
5 issues- App crashes after recent update
- Probe color identification reversed in app
- Cooking progress not saved when app is closed
- Estimated time remaining feature not working
- Issues with adding new cooking profiles
Requested features
5 requests- Add widget support for quick temperature checks
- Allow more flexibility in setting temperature alarms
- Improve data export functionality
- Enhance cooking graph to show real-time data
- Add support for more meat types and cooking profiles
In-app purchases
iMenu App
No in-app purchases
TempSpike
No in-app purchases
