SmokeLab vs Crowdkeep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SmokeLab
Record your BBQ and meat smoking sessions with detailed logs. Track ingredients, temperatures, and even weather conditions. Save photos of your creations and rate their quality.
- BBQ cooking and smoking log database
- Ingredient QR scanning
- Meat temperature data logging
- Automatic weather temperature upload
- Rate final product appearance, taste, and tenderness
- Store pictures of cooked items
- Securely save entire cooking process
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The SmokeLab app allows you to generate a database of your BBQ cooking and smoking meat experiences in an easy-to-use format. Designed to capture all the important steps and information throughout the process from food preparation, QR scanning of your ingredients, and meat temperature data. Even the weather temperature is automatically uploaded. Then rate your final product’s appearance, taste, and tenderness. Finally, store pictures of your backyard masterpieces before securely saving the entire process. This app is a must-have for every backyard BBQ enthusiast and pit master! Privacy Policy - https://www.smokelabapp.com/privacy Terms And Conditions - https://www.smokelabapp.com/terms
Crowdkeep
This app provides a real-time, georeferenced view of people and devices. It offers advanced AI and analytics to notify users when specific rules are triggered and allows for configuration of platform behaviors based on user actions or predefined rules.
- Real-time georeferenced view
- Device and people tracking
- Rule-triggered notifications
- AI and analytics capabilities
- Behavioral analysis
- Platform behavior configuration
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This mobile App allows a user to have a real time georeferenced view of people/devices, get notified when a rule is triggered and/or admin and configure behaviours on the platform. With advanced AI and analytics capabilities, this app allows a user to have a better control and take actions based on behaviours or previous defined rules.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crowdkeep at none against SmokeLab's 3. Crowdkeep also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). SmokeLab's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. SmokeLab sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Crowdkeep asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crowdkeep holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SmokeLab has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
SmokeLab ships an update every 4 weeks, Crowdkeep every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 10, 2026 and July 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SmokeLab | Crowdkeep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 146 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Blakstvedt Pomonis Enterprises LLC | Crowdkeep LLC |
Customer experience
SmokeLab
Crowdkeep
In-app purchases
SmokeLab
- SmokeLab$4.991 Month
- SmokeLab$49.991 Year
- SmokeLab$4.99
Crowdkeep
No in-app purchases
