Comparison

Grillkeeper vs GrillMaster

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — 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
Currently charting
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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

GrillMaster

This app creates a perfectly synchronized cooking schedule for all your grilled foods, ensuring everything is ready at the same time. It provides clear cues for when to add, flip, and remove items, making your cookouts stress-free and delicious.

Highlights
  • Synchronized timers for all foods
  • On-screen cooking cues
  • Haptic and Apple Watch alerts
  • Doneness pickers
  • Weather-smart timing adjustments
  • Custom preheat temperature
Features
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Nothing kills a cookout like cold burgers waiting on chicken that isn't done. GrillMaster times every food on your grill so it all comes off hot, safe, and ready at the same moment. Tell it what you're grilling. It builds the schedule. You just follow the cues. FREE FOREVER • Every food: burgers, hot dogs, chicken, steak, and steak tips • Perfectly staggered timers so it all finishes at the same moment • Clear on-screen cues: when to put each food on, when to flip, when to pull • Haptic taps so you feel the alerts even with the phone in your pocket • Alerts land on your Apple Watch too, so you can leave the phone by the grill • No ads. No account. No subscription. GRILLMASTER PRO: ONE PURCHASE, YOURS FOREVER • Voice cues that call out every step, so your hands never leave the tongs • Doneness pickers: rare to well done, timed to the minute • Thickness sliders for precision on thick cuts and smash burgers alike • Weather-smart timing: enter your ZIP and GrillMaster adjusts for cold, wind, and heat • Custom preheat temperature to match your actual grill, not a textbook one HOW IT WORKS 1. Pick your foods and how many of each 2. GrillMaster builds one master timeline, staggering every start time 3. Follow the cues (put on, flip, pull) and everything lands together Built by a griller, for grillers. No fluff, no feeds, no login. Just a cookout that runs on time. Fire it up.

Screenshots

Grillkeeper4 screens
GrillMaster4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: GrillMaster at Free against Grillkeeper's $1.99. Grillkeeper's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (daily vs every 5 weeks). On review sentiment, ads, device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

GrillMaster is free to download; Grillkeeper costs $1.99 up front. GrillMaster sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Grillkeeper asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grillkeeper ships an update daily, GrillMaster every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Grillkeeper versus GrillMaster: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrillkeeperGrillMaster
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
Best chart rank#53 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIt Matters Group LTDSTEPHEN MARK SCHLESINGER

Customer experience

Grillkeeper

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

GrillMaster

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Grillkeeper

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

GrillMaster

One-time1
  • GrillMaster Pro$3.99

Questions

Is Grillkeeper free?
Grillkeeper costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is GrillMaster free?
GrillMaster is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Grillkeeper or GrillMaster have ads?
Neither Grillkeeper nor GrillMaster shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Grillkeeper or GrillMaster?
Grillkeeper ships an update daily, and GrillMaster every 5 weeks. Most recently, Grillkeeper was updated on October 8, 2026 and GrillMaster on October 7, 2026.

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