Comparison

Bubbles vs Meat Curing & Brine Calculator

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

Head to head
About

Bubbles

Track your home fermentation projects with recipes, reminders, and notes. This app helps you manage sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, and more, with options to create your own recipes and store your progress.

Highlights
  • Fermentation recipes
  • Custom recipe creation
  • Batch notes and photos
  • Ferment archive
  • Guides on fermentation
  • Offline functionality
Features
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Bubbles keeps track of your home fermentation. Pick a recipe, follow the steps, and get a reminder when it's time to burp, taste, or move the jar to the fridge. - Recipes for sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, sourdough starter, tepache and more - Write your own recipes, or import one from a website link or pasted text (Premium) - Add notes and photos to each batch, and look back at finished ferments in the archive - Back up your ferments, recipes and photos and restore them on a new phone (backup with Premium, restoring is free) - Guides on salt, acidity, temperature, mold vs kahm yeast, cleaning and storage Made in Europe Bubbles is built by a small team in Europe and designed around GDPR principles. You don't need an account, and the app works offline. Your data stays on your device unless you turn on cloud backup, which stores it on our servers in the EU. We never sell data. Privacy Policy: https://bubblesferment.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://bubblesferment.com/terms-of-service

About

Meat Curing & Brine Calculator

Features
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Salt math, day counts and water-loss targets for every cut you hang. Meat Curing & Brine Calculator is a meat curing tracker for home charcuterie: it works out the cure, counts the days, and tells you when the bresaola is actually done. Most curing goes wrong at two moments: the salt rub and the pull date. Meat Curing fixes both. Type the green weight of your pork belly or eye of round and you get sea salt grams, Cure #1 or Cure #2 grams and the resulting nitrite ppm, checked against the 200 ppm ingoing ceiling for dry-cured meat. Set a target loss and Meat Curing calculates the finishing weight, then follows the batch with weigh-in reminders until it gets there. WHAT YOU GET • Exact salt and pink-cure grams for any green weight, with the nitrite ppm verified safe before the meat is touched • A finishing weight for every project, so a 35% loss coppa is a number on a scale, not a guess • Weekly weigh-in reminders and a finish alert the moment a cure reaches its target • Eight vault recipes with milestones built in: bresaola, pancetta, guanciale, lardo, coppa, gravlax, home bacon and finocchiona salami • A logbook per batch for weigh-ins, flips, vac-seals, re-rubs and cellar temperature and humidity • A cellar archive of finished and discarded cures, weights and notes intact for next season PERFECT FOR • First-timers who want the safety math done before the salt goes on • Whole-muscle curers hanging prosciutto, bresaola or coppa to a weight target • Salumi makers juggling ferment-then-dry schedules across several casings • Weekend bacon and gravlax cooks who just need the right ratio, fast WHY NOT JUST A SPREADSHEET? A spreadsheet knows the percentages, but it does not know today is day 21, that the pancetta is still 140 g from target, or that the next step is rinse and case. Meat Curing ties the calculator to the calendar and the scale: every batch shows days in, days remaining, current loss and the next milestone on one card, and the app nudges you when it is time to weigh. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your cures, weights and notes stay on this iPhone. There is no account to create, no cloud sync, no ads and no third-party analytics. Reminders are local notifications you can switch off at any time. FULL ACCESS Meat Curing requires a subscription. Choose a weekly or yearly plan to unlock unlimited cures, the salt and nitrate calculator, the recipe vault and all reminders. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed or cancelled in your App Store account settings. Weigh your first cut, tap Start a cure, and let Meat Curing & Brine Calculator count the days. Terms of Service: https://pnkl26.web.app/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://pnkl26.web.app/privacy-policy Support: pnkhanhlinh0206@gmail.com

Screenshots

Bubbles4 screens
Meat Curing & Brine Calculator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Bubbles at 3 against Meat Curing & Brine Calculator's 1. Bubbles also leads on iOS requirement (15.3 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Bubbles sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Meat Curing & Brine Calculator sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bubbles ships an update every 3 months, Meat Curing & Brine Calculator every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Bubbles versus Meat Curing & Brine Calculator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBubblesMeat Curing & Brine Calculator
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.3 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size95 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMANTAS LATKAUSKASLinh Phan Nhat Khanh

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bubbles

Subscriptions2
  • Bubbles Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Bubbles Premium Annual1 Month trial$29.991 Year
3 purchases

Meat Curing & Brine Calculator

Subscriptions2
  • Brine Premium Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Brine Premium Yearly$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Batch Logbook Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Bubbles free?
Bubbles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Meat Curing & Brine Calculator free?
Meat Curing & Brine Calculator is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bubbles or Meat Curing & Brine Calculator have ads?
Neither Bubbles nor Meat Curing & Brine Calculator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bubbles or Meat Curing & Brine Calculator?
Bubbles ships an update every 3 months, and Meat Curing & Brine Calculator every 4 months. Most recently, Bubbles was updated on October 31, 2026 and Meat Curing & Brine Calculator on November 5, 2026.

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