Comparison

Grillkeeper vs GrillTime

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

Head to head
About

Grillkeeper

This app simplifies grilling by precisely timing each food item, ensuring everything is ready simultaneously. It eliminates guesswork, preventing burnt food and ensuring perfectly cooked meals.

Highlights
  • Precise timing for multiple foods
  • Flip and done alerts
  • Built-in food library
  • Custom food creation
  • Serve everything hot together
  • No accounts or clutter
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Stop guessing at the grill. Grillkeeper times every food you cook and tells you exactly when to flip and when it's done, so nothing burns and everything lands on the plate hot, together. Grilling a few things at once is a timing puzzle. The steak wants one time, the chicken another, the veggies another. Miss a flip and dinner goes dry. Grillkeeper does the timing for you. HOW IT WORKS - Add the foods you're cooking from the built-in library, or create your own. - Grillkeeper sets each food's cook time and flip points. - Start the cook and get a clear alert the moment any item needs to flip. - Everything finishes together. Serve it hot. COOKS WHAT YOU COOK Steak, burgers, chicken, ribs, salmon, shrimp, corn, peppers, mushrooms and more. Set a target temperature, choose your flip points, and save your own foods so they're one tap away next time. BUILT TO BE SIMPLE No accounts. No clutter. No guesswork. Just the timers you need and the alerts that matter, built for one job: getting everything off the grill at the same time. ONE PRICE, YOURS FOREVER $5.99 once. No subscription. No ads. No upsells. Buy it, own it. A note on safety: cook times are starting points. Always verify doneness with a meat thermometer. Fire up the grill. Let Grillkeeper handle the timing.

About

GrillTime

Features
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GrillTime is not a generic countdown timer. It is a cooking engine for the grill that builds a precise timer for every cut from the things that actually matter: the cut of meat, its thickness, your heat level, and the doneness you want. Pick a cut, set the thickness with a stepper, choose Low, Medium or High heat, and slide the color doneness bar from rare to well-done. GrillTime instantly calculates the total cook time and the exact minute to flip, and shows the internal temperature you are aiming for. While you cook, the timer splits the job into clear phases: sear side A, flip now, sear side B, then rest. Alerts fire with haptics and local notifications that reach you even when your phone is locked, so you never miss the flip. The full-screen timer keeps the screen awake with a giant, easy-to-read countdown. Cooking a whole spread at once? The Cook Board runs several cuts side by side on one grill. Set a Serve At time and GrillTime staggers each cut's start backwards so the steak, the burgers and the chicken all finish together, right on time. GrillTime also keeps a built-in reference of safe internal temperatures for beef, pork, chicken, fish and ground meat, plus a doneness guide, so you can cook with confidence. FEATURES - Timers built from cut, thickness, heat and doneness - Exact flip minute and total cook time, calculated live - Cooking phases: sear A, flip, sear B, rest, with carryover notes - Haptic and local-notification alerts that work when locked - Cook Board multi-timer to run many cuts at once - Serve At planner that staggers starts so everything finishes together - Full-screen timer with keep-awake and a giant countdown - Built-in safe internal temperature table and doneness guide - Save your own custom cut presets - Switch between Fahrenheit and Celsius, inches and centimeters - 100% offline: no account, no backend, your data stays on your device Cuts included: steak, burger, chicken, pork, ribs, salmon, shrimp and vegetables. Fire up the grill and nail every steak, burger and rib.

Screenshots

Grillkeeper4 screens
GrillTime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: GrillTime at Free against Grillkeeper's $1.99. Grillkeeper's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

GrillTime is free to download; Grillkeeper costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grillkeeper ships an update daily, GrillTime every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences ยท 5 level
Grillkeeper versus GrillTime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrillkeeperGrillTime
Price$1.99Free โ€” better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyDaily โ€” betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidโ€”
Best chart rank#43 โ€” betterโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better16.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size45 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIt Matters Group LTDPEDRO ALEXANDER SUSA REYES

In-app purchases

None

Grillkeeper

No in-app purchases

None

GrillTime

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grillkeeper free?
Grillkeeper costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is GrillTime free?
GrillTime is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Grillkeeper or GrillTime have ads?
GrillTime shows ads; Grillkeeper does not.
Which is updated more often, Grillkeeper or GrillTime?
Grillkeeper ships an update daily, and GrillTime every 2 weeks. Most recently, Grillkeeper was updated on October 8, 2026 and GrillTime on September 30, 2026.

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