Comparison

Take Thai vs SmoulderLab

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

Head to head
About

Take Thai

Features
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Our dedicated food ordering app allows you to order collection or home delivery of your favourite Thai dishes directly from our kitchen. By excluding the cost of third party food companies, it allows us to give you full value for money, in both food quality and quantity. We are constantly improving our service to give our customers a better experience and welcome feedback within the app. Please note, that for specific dietary and allergy related orders, we advise you to place your order by telephone, to ensure your requirements are met with accuracy. We hope you enjoy!

About

SmoulderLab

This app provides a customizable grilling grid with live temperature probe integration and AI assistants for cooking advice. It features a recipe library, allergen filtering, and planning tools for pitmasters of all levels.

Highlights
  • Customizable grill grid timers
  • Live temperature probe integration
  • AI cooking assistants
  • Filterable recipe library
  • Allergen profile management
  • Food planning calendar
  • Connected tool integration
Features
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SmoulderLab is built differently. The multi-timer screen is a spatial grill grid you configure to match your actual rig โ€” 2ร—2 for a kettle, 3ร—6 for a serious offset, and anything in between. Each slot tracks its own cook, with live temperature probe readings flowing into the cells where the food actually sits. Rotate to landscape and run the whole rig at a glance. Active grids save to your account on every change, so a flat battery or a closed app does not lose your cook. Two AI assistants are built in. โ€” Ask the Chef โ€” a conversational BBQ expert in your pocket. Temperatures, timings, wood pairings, what to do with a brisket that has hit the stall ask anything BBQ-related and get a straight answer. โ€” What Can I Cook? โ€” tell it the ingredients you have and the time you have got; it tells you what to cook. The staring into the fridge problem, solved. The recipe library currently sits at 142 and growing. Filterable by ingredient (beef, pork, fish, poultry, lamb, vegetables, sauces, sides, starters, desserts, drinks), by difficulty, and automatically against your allergen profile. Import recipes from the web and enter your own with curated ingredient lists. On allergens โ€” SmoulderLab covers all 14 UK legal allergens, not the usual top five. Set your profile once and every built in recipe across the app filters automatically. Cooking for guests? Add their allergens for the session without overwriting your own. The Connected Tools subsystem hooks into MEATER (Plus, Pro, Pro Duo, Pro XL, Block) and FireBoard (2, 2 Pro, 2 Drive) via the manufacturers official public APIs โ€” so the temperature you see is the temperature their own apps show. Thirty five food tips and method guides round out the technique library โ€” short, written without filler, focused on the why behind the how. Extensive food planning calendar, pantry and shopping list functions to make life easier. Exports shopping lists, calendar cook entries and more. SmoulderLab is a subscription. ยฃ3.49 a month or ยฃ27.99 a year โ€” save over four months with annual. No ads, no banner upsells, with a functional free tier. Designed for beginners through to cooks who care about whether their wood is oak, beech or apple, who know that low and slow is doing real work, and who would rather understand the cook than blindly trust the timer. If that sounds like your kind of cook, SmoulderLab is on the other side of the download button. Terms of Use : https://smoulderlab.com/terms

Screenshots

Take Thai4 screens
SmoulderLab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SmoulderLab at every 2 days against Take Thai's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Take Thai ships an update every 3 weeks, SmoulderLab every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
Take Thai versus SmoulderLab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTake ThaiSmoulderLab
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsโ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetizationโ€”Subscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS14 โ€” better15.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size22 MB77 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperEPOS TechnologiesWoodside Advisors Ltd

In-app purchases

None

Take Thai

No in-app purchases

None

SmoulderLab

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Take Thai free?
Take Thai is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SmoulderLab free?
SmoulderLab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Take Thai or SmoulderLab have ads?
Neither Take Thai nor SmoulderLab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Take Thai or SmoulderLab?
Take Thai ships an update every 3 weeks, and SmoulderLab every 2 days. Most recently, Take Thai was updated on October 6, 2026 and SmoulderLab on September 22, 2026.

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