Kitchen Mate vs Hoist!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
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.
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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Kitchen Mate | Hoist! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | โ |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch โ better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Climb App | Markus Solberg |
In-app purchases
Kitchen Mate
No in-app purchases
Hoist!
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Kitchen Mate free?
Is Hoist! free?
Do Kitchen Mate or Hoist! have ads?
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