Comparison

Kitchen Mate vs Hoist!

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

Head to head
About

Kitchen Mate

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Kitchen Mate brings together small, helpful tools for everyday cooking. Main features: - Convert microwave heating times for different wattages - Use multiple timers that are easy to manage while cooking - Scale ingredient amounts for the number of servings - Convert common kitchen units such as grams, milliliters, tablespoons, and teaspoons - Quickly access recently used conversions and timers For the small kitchen calculations that can slow you down. A simple cooking tool that helps you move smoothly through everyday meals.

About

Hoist!

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Hoist turns a phone, an iPad or a watch into one thing, shown fullscreen, meant to be read by somebody else. A flag at a match. A name at an arrivals hall. A countdown on a shelf. A light at a concert. A candle in a window. Not a widget, not a notification โ€” a screen you point outward and walk away from. What you can show Flags โ€” 273 countries and territories, drawn as artwork, plus a designer for making your own: Nordic cross, horizontal stripes, vertical stripes, your colours. Flags move in the wind, and the wind is one setting for the whole app, from still to storm. Signs โ€” large type on a solid ground, for a name, a room number, a word. Countdowns โ€” to a moment or for a while, drawn four ways: digital, analogue, an hourglass, or a tank that drains. The last seconds flash so a room notices. Photographs โ€” your own, filling the screen, with a chosen ground behind anything transparent. QR codes โ€” a network, a link, a card, at a size that scans across a table. A candle โ€” drawn, not filmed, and steady enough to sit in a window all evening. A light โ€” a flat field of colour, a lighthouse whose beam sweeps round and floods the screen, or a flashing beacon. The torch can join in. On the wrist Everything except photographs reaches Apple Watch, at full brightness with nothing over it. Raise a flag from your wrist without taking the phone out. Without opening the app A Control Centre button, a Lock Screen Live Activity, and Shortcuts โ€” so a display is one press away. Give an occasion a date and Hoist offers it when the day comes. Said plainly Hoist collects nothing. It has no network code at all โ€” nothing to send, nowhere to send it. Flashing light is capped well below the rate that provokes photosensitive seizures, and anything faster asks first. Eleven languages: English, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch

Screenshots

Kitchen Mate4 screens
Hoist!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Hoist! at none against Kitchen Mate's shown. Hoist! also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

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

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Kitchen Mate versus Hoist!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKitchen MateHoist!
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysโ€”
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ€” better
Requires iOS26.018.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size25 MB32 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClimb AppMarkus Solberg

In-app purchases

None

Kitchen Mate

No in-app purchases

None

Hoist!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kitchen Mate free?
Kitchen Mate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hoist! free?
Hoist! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Kitchen Mate or Hoist! have ads?
Kitchen Mate shows ads; Hoist! does not.

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