BBQ Chef vs Been There
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BBQ Chef
This AI-powered assistant generates personalized BBQ recipes based on your equipment, skill level, and wood preferences. It offers step-by-step instructions, community features for sharing and discovering recipes, and offline access. Start with free generations and upgrade for unlimited access.
- AI-generated personalized recipes
- Customizable pitmaster profile
- Step-by-step cooking instructions
- Community recipe sharing and browsing
- Offline recipe access
- Recipe remixing and PDF export
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BBQ Chef is your AI-powered pitmaster assistant. Tell it what you're working with — your smoker, your skill level, your favourite woods — and it generates recipes built around you. Not generic internet recipes with a stock photo. Recipes that know you've got a Weber Smokey Mountain and prefer post oak. GENERATE RECIPES YOUR WAY Chat naturally with the AI to create exactly what you're after, or browse by category and let it surprise you. Choose from beef, pork, poultry, lamb, game, seafood, veggie, dry rubs, marinades, glazes, sauces, and sides. Every recipe includes step-by-step instructions, cooking temps, equipment lists, and setup guides — in both imperial and metric measurements. BRING YOUR OWN RECIPES Got a stack of cookbooks, printouts, or scribbled family recipes? Snap a photo and BBQ Chef reads the page and turns it into a clean, structured recipe card — ingredients, steps, temps and all. Or paste your rough notes and we'll sort them out. Flip on "Adapt to my setup" and the app translates the method to your smoker or grill. Prefer to do it by hand? Build recipes from scratch on a live card that looks exactly like the finished thing. PERSONALISED TO YOUR SETUP Set up your pitmaster profile once — your smoker or grill, preferred woods, accessories, experience level, serving size, and any dietary notes. The AI uses all of this to generate recipes that actually make sense for how you cook. A beginner on a kettle grill gets different guidance than a competition pitmaster running an offset. THE PIT — A COMMUNITY FOR PITMASTERS Share your best recipes with The Pit, a built-in community of BBQ enthusiasts. Browse what others are cooking, vote on the ones that catch your eye, and leave comments. Search by keyword or filter by category. Found a recipe you love? Remix it — the AI will regenerate it to match your own equipment and preferences. SAVE, SYNC & EXPORT Save recipes to your collection and access them anywhere. Everything works offline — recipes are stored on your device and sync to the cloud when you sign in. Export any recipe as a clean PDF to share with friends or print for the cook. FREE TO START, PRO TO MASTER Get started with 3 free recipe generations and 5 recipe imports per month, and save up to 10 recipes. Creating recipes from scratch is always free. Upgrade to Pitmaster Pro for unlimited generations and imports, unlimited saves, recipe remixing from The Pit, and offline access to your full collection. Sign in with Apple or Google to get started. Your recipes sync across devices automatically. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://techgeezer.ai/bbq-chef-privacy-policy
Been There
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Remember every place worth going back to. Been There keeps the restaurants, cafés, pubs and bars you've been to on your own map, with photos and notes from every visit. There are no star ratings. You say whether you'd go back, and see where your friends would. Add a spot Search for the place, say how it was and add a photo if you like. Three choices, from Not for me to Top Spot, and no scores to agonise over. Remember every visit See each visit by the day you went, with your photos, your notes and who you were with. Your notes keep what you ordered last time. Your own map Every spot you've been to, on a map of photo pins. Browse by country, from the café round the corner to the bar you found on holiday. Crown your favourites Mark your Top Spots so they stand out on your map and your profile. Find places through friends Follow friends to see where they've been, what they thought and who they went with. When you need somewhere to eat, start with your friends' spots. Places near you Discover shows the spots around you from the people you follow, so you can find somewhere good nearby. Private if you want Keep your profile private and approve who can follow you. Use it as your restaurant journal, your list of favourites and your map of where to eat next, from brunch to the pub round the corner. You can also save places you want to try. Been There is free.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Been There at none against BBQ Chef's 2. Been There also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 7 months). BBQ Chef's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. BBQ Chef sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Been There asks for nothing beyond the download.
BBQ Chef ships an update every 7 months, Been There every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BBQ Chef | Been There |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 91 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | TechGeezer limited | Been There Inc Ltd |
In-app purchases
BBQ Chef
- Pitmaster Pro$2.991 Month
- Pitmaster Pro$24.991 Year
Been There
No in-app purchases
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