Comparison

Sous Vide °Celsius vs Anova Culinary

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

Head to head
About

Sous Vide °Celsius

Get expert sous vide cooking recommendations for a wide range of ingredients. Control compatible circulators remotely, set custom timers, and access tested recipes and tutorials. Perfect for both professional chefs and home cooks seeking precise results.

Highlights
  • Sous vide time/temperature recommendations
  • Remote control for compatible circulators
  • Customizable timers with notifications
  • Over 400 tested chef experiences
  • Fahrenheit/Celsius and inches/cm options
  • Step-by-step tutorials
  • Sous vide know-how section
Features
Currently charting
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Opinionated Sous Vide recommendations for chefs and home cooks alike! Tested, so you don’t have to. Now supporting remote control for ERME SV1, ERME SV3, ERME SV5, Anova Precision Cooker* (2014) and Anova Nano! ● Sous Vide time/temperature recommendations for ingredients such as beef, veal, poultry, pork, lamb, game, fish, egg, fruits and vegetables. ● Set your own timers: Heat up your waterbath, start, stop, rewind, get notified when your food is ready. ● Remote control ERME basins or the original Anova Precision Cooker* over Bluetooth. “Sous Vide °Celsius packs in some of the features we wish Anova included” - The Sweethome More features: ● More than 400 Sous Vide experiences tested by professional chefs. ● Temperature information in Fahrenheit or Celsius. ● Measurements in inches or cm. ● Step-by-step tutorials to get you started. ● Know-How section: Technical Sous Vide terms explained. ● Use personal notes to refine your own experiences. Convinced that Sous Vide is the best cooking method since the discovery of fire? Then you probably own a circulator or a similar device. To start, a zip-bag, a cooking pot and a thermometer is all you need. Many Sous Vide recipes work without special equipment. But you will need good advice! Sous Vide has been adopted in professional kitchens for producing precise and consistent results. The Sous Vide method produces perfectly cooked food with outstanding flavor. Its success in high-end cuisine changed the culinary world. With a few starting tips anyone can use this technique. Step-by-step tutorials and Sous Vide timers (mini-recipes with an alarm) help you along the way. Ideas, suggestions or anything you would like to change? Contact us with your feedback on UserVoice! The time for a piece of meat to reach a core temperature can be calculated. A formula using thermal diffusivity, thermal conductivity and surface heat transfer calculates the time such shapes as cylinders, cubes and steaks need to acquire a certain core temperature. Consider the PolyScience Toolbox App or Douglas Baldwin’s formulas for calculating pasteurization times. But food is never an exact geometrical shape and waiting for an extra hour for a piece to reach an additional half a degree is impractical. Adjustments for speed and efficiency improve the Sous Vide experience. We have tested Sous Vide recommendations that work and tutorials that make the first steps easy - for professionals and home cooks alike! Sous Vide - no other cooking method gives you so much control! Don’t get the Anova Pro or the new Anova Precision Cooker (2019) as these devices are no longer equipped with Bluetooth!

About

Anova Culinary

Discover and create sous vide recipes with a vast collection from professional chefs and home cooks. Control your precision cooker remotely, monitor cooking progress, and share your culinary creations. Offers guided cooking, time and temperature guides, and personal recipe saving.

Highlights
  • Largest sous vide recipe collection
  • Remote cooker control
  • Guided cooking instructions
  • Recipe creation and sharing
  • Time and temperature guides
  • Personalized cooking profiles
Features
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The Anova family of precision cookers allows everyone to cook like a pro! Paired with the Anova Culinary app, now perfectly cooked restaurant quality meals are as easy as the touch of a button. Browse the largest collection of sous vide recipes by Michelin star chefs and home cooks just like you. Then simply connect your cooker to the app and start, stop, and monitor your cook right from your mobile phone. Feeling inspired? Create and share your own recipes and go viral on the ‘gram. Whatever your pleasure, the Anova Culinary app is the place for everything sous vide. FEATURES ======== • LARGEST COLLECTION OF SOUS VIDE RECIPES: Access sous vide recipes created by Michelin star chefs and home cooks just like you. • COOK FROM AFAR: Start, stop, change the temperature, set the timer, and monitor your cooking status from just about anywhere, as long as your device is within Wi-Fi range. • RECIPE DISCOVERY: Cook recipes by James Beard Award-winning chefs, food editors, celebrity chefs, and more. • GUIDED COOKING: Follow the step-by-step instructions and click start to start cooking. • COOK NOTIFICATIONS: Stay up-to-date on your cooking status without getting tied to the kitchen. • RECIPE SHARING: Share your recipe with friends directly through the app. • TIME AND TEMP GUIDES: Learn the basics with our simple sous vide guides. • MANUAL CONTROL: Customize your cook settings with manual time and temperature control. • RECIPE COLLECTIONS: A series of new and appetizing recipe collections that are sure to keep you cooking. • RECIPE CREATION: Easily create and save your own personal sous vide recipe. • FAVORITES: Have a recipe or two that you love? Mark it as a favorite for quick and easy access. • PERSONAL PROFILE: Create your personal profile and see a history of all the meals you’ve cooked. Try all the features free for 14 days. Options in-app for monthly or yearly subscription terms. Payment will be charged to the iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. The account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period, and the renewal cost will be identified. Subscriptions may be managed by the user, and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. End User License Agreement (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Sous Vide °Celsius4 screens
Anova Culinary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Anova Culinary at Free against Sous Vide °Celsius's $4.99. Anova Culinary also leads on ratings volume (26K vs 341). Sous Vide °Celsius's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (55% vs 32%). On update cadence, ads, chart position 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Anova Culinary is free to download; Sous Vide °Celsius costs $4.99 up front. Anova Culinary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Sous Vide °Celsius asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sous Vide °Celsius holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Anova Culinary has 26K ratings behind it against 341, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 55% of Sous Vide °Celsius's written reviews are positive against 32% of Anova Culinary's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sous Vide °Celsius ships an update every 2 months, Anova Culinary monthly. Both last shipped on October 15, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Sous Vide °Celsius versus Anova Culinary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSous Vide °CelsiusAnova Culinary
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (341 ratings) — better4.4 (26K ratings)
Positive reviews54.7% of reviews — better31.6% of reviews
Number of ratings34126K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#72#37 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB80 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperJonas FreiAnova Culinary

Customer experience

Sous Vide °Celsius

All ratings341 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral2.1%
Negative4.7%
Written reviews95 reviews
Positive54.7%
Neutral8.4%
Negative36.8%

Anova Culinary

All ratings25,593 ratings
Positive85.1%
Neutral3.2%
Negative11.7%
Written reviews1,220 reviews
Positive31.6%
Neutral9.4%
Negative59.0%

User reviews

Sous Vide °Celsius

From 341 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Works better than Anova's app
  • 👍 Simple and straightforward
  • 👍 Useful for sous vide cooking
  • 👍 Good reference for times and temperatures
  • 👍 Connects to Anova device

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Inaccurate temperature readings
  • 🐛 Inconsistent cooking times
  • 🐛 App doesn't connect to device
  • 🐛 Difficult to set cooking time
  • 🐛 Missing food items

Anova Culinary

From 26K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Consistent cooking results
  • 🚀 Versatile for various foods
  • 🚀 Game-changing cooking method
  • 🚀 Convenient remote control

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Connectivity issues with app
  • 🐛 Unreliable timer functionality
  • 🐛 Glitchy app interface
  • 🐛 Difficult WiFi setup
  • 🐛 Lack of manual controls

Bugs and requests

Sous Vide °Celsius

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • Anova app no longer communicates with Anova unit
  • Cannot register equipment in the app
  • App doesn't connect to device
  • App doesn't ask for network ability
  • App doesn't connect to Anova Nano
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  • App doesn't connect to Anova device
  • Timer starts during preheat
  • App crashes on opening
  • Timer has no proper alarm
  • Description truncated
  • Incorrect Fahrenheit temperatures
  • Cannot open app

Requested features

15 requests
  • Add KitchenBoss G330 to devices
  • Allow adding own recipes
  • Add crab to seafood section
  • Fix manual setting of cooking time jumps
  • Add missing food varieties (e.g., swordfish, peppers, onions, perfect egg)
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  • Add option to rename devices
  • Remember last temperature/time settings
  • Add pasteurization to core feature
  • Add graph for pathogen removal/core temp
  • Add French version
  • Add ruler on recipe views
  • Allow user-entered thickness measurements
  • Add timer to notify start time for long cooks
  • Add Celsius scale option
  • Reorganize tutorials

Anova Culinary

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App unable to maintain connection to device
  • Timer resets unexpectedly during cooking
  • Recipes not saving properly in the app
  • Compatibility issues with certain WiFi networks
  • Notifications not working as expected

Requested features

5 requests
  • Improved recipe management
  • Better app integration with smart home devices
  • More customization options for cooking
  • Clearer instructions and troubleshooting guides
  • Ability to save personal recipes

In-app purchases

None

Sous Vide °Celsius

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Anova Culinary

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription14 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Sous Vide Yearly Subscription14 Days trial$9.991 Year

Questions

Is Sous Vide °Celsius free?
Sous Vide °Celsius costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Anova Culinary free?
Anova Culinary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sous Vide °Celsius or Anova Culinary?
Sous Vide °Celsius is rated higher. Sous Vide °Celsius averages 4.7 out of 5 from 341 ratings, while Anova Culinary averages 4.4 from 26K ratings.
Do Sous Vide °Celsius or Anova Culinary have ads?
Neither Sous Vide °Celsius nor Anova Culinary shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sous Vide °Celsius or Anova Culinary?
Sous Vide °Celsius ships an update every 2 months, and Anova Culinary monthly. Most recently, Sous Vide °Celsius was updated on October 15, 2026 and Anova Culinary on October 15, 2026.
Which is more popular, Sous Vide °Celsius or Anova Culinary?
Sous Vide °Celsius currently peaks at #72 in the App Store charts, and Anova Culinary at #37. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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