Comparison

Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant vs Specsmith

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

Head to head
About

Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant

Easily locate products within a specific grocery store. Search by UPC, name, or category to find item availability and precise aisle locations. The app also helps find alternative store locations if an item is out of stock.

Highlights
  • Search by UPC, product name, or category
  • Check product availability
  • Find exact aisle and shelf location
  • Discover alternative store locations
  • View product location details
Features
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Use the Assistant to search and find a product in a uncle Giuseppe’s store location. Just enter a upc, product name or category. The Assistant will discover a product’s availability and its exact product aisle location in the store(s). If a upc is entered for a search The Assistant will first search the selected uncle giuseppe’s store location and if the product in not in that location The Assistant will returns the other store's locations that do carry that product and is closest to you. Your product's search will be displayed Aisle/Side/Section/Shelf location in a store.

About

Specsmith

This app provides bartenders with instant access to cocktail recipes, prep instructions, and batching calculations. It's designed for busy bar environments, offering clear, readable specs and seamless navigation between recipes and ingredients.

Highlights
  • Instant cocktail specs
  • Linked prep recipes
  • Batching calculations
  • Clear, readable measures
  • Multi-workspace support
  • In-app spec editing
  • Ad-free experience
Features
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Specsmith is the bar team's spec book, on the floor. Every cocktail program lives in a binder, a shared doc, or someone's memory — and none of those survive a Friday night. Specsmith puts the whole thing in your pocket: the spec, the prep recipe behind it, and the batch numbers, one tap from each other. BUILT FOR SERVICE Pull up a recipe mid-ticket. Measures sit in their own column so you can read a spec at arm's length across a crowded bar, not squint at a paragraph. No loading spinner between you and the drink. PREP THAT CONNECTS An ingredient that is made in house links to the prep recipe that makes it. Tap the honey ginger syrup on a Penicillin and you get the syrup, not a search box. The prep list is there on its own too, alphabetised, for the person doing Tuesday's mise. BATCHING WITHOUT ARITHMETIC Pick a menu, pick a multiplier, get the numbers. The maths happens on the server and matches what the desktop workspace shows for the same menu, so the bar and the office are never quoting different volumes at each other. THE WHOLE WORKSPACE Your menus and your recipes, including recipes that are not on a menu right now. Belong to more than one bar? Switch between workspaces from the menu list; the app remembers which one you had open. EDIT WHERE YOU STAND Fix a spec at the station where you noticed it was wrong. Change measures, methods, glassware and garnish, and photograph the drink with the camera. If a colleague edited the same recipe first, Specsmith says so instead of quietly overwriting their work. MADE FOR A BAR, NOT A PHONE DEMO Big type, one thumb, and a spec you can read without leaning in. No adverts, and no tracking across other apps. Specsmith for iOS is the companion to the Specsmith workspace on the web, where menus get built, costed and printed. Sign in with the account you already have, or create one with email and password, Apple, or Google. Most tools for building menus, managing recipes, and creating prep guides are on the web at getspecsmith.com.

Screenshots

Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant3 screens
Specsmith4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Specsmith at 5.0 against Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant's 1.3. Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant's advantage is ratings volume (7 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Specsmith holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant versus Specsmith: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUncle Giuseppe's AssistantSpecsmith
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.3 (7 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better1
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB4 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperPin IncorporatedJeremy Oertel

Customer experience

Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Specsmith

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant

No in-app purchases

None

Specsmith

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant free?
Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Specsmith free?
Specsmith is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant or Specsmith?
Specsmith is rated higher. Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant averages 1.3 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Specsmith averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant or Specsmith have ads?
Neither Uncle Giuseppe's Assistant nor Specsmith shows ads.

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