Thermowire vs TuneHelper
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Thermowire
This utility app assists in cooking by monitoring food temperatures with a connected probe. It offers pre-set and custom food profiles, audible alarms when desired temperatures are reached, and the ability to track cooking progress with graphs. Users can also share their culinary creations on social media.
- Temperature probe integration
- Pre-set and custom food profiles
- Audible temperature alarms
- Real-time cooking graphs
- Social media sharing
- Countdown and stopwatch
- CSV data export
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Thermowire is designed to take the guesswork out of cooking and help make you a better cook. Used in conjunction with a state-of-the-art temperature probe, Thermowire allows you to boil grill, or roast anything to perfection. The app is preloaded with various food profiles, which can be selected to indicate the optimum internal temperature. You can also create your own profile with your own customizable temperature settings. When the internal temperature you set has been reached, an alarm will sound. This means you no longer need to poke, prod, and worry about whether your meal is over or undercooked! This is a unique device that employs an innovative method to measure and display temperature on you iOS devices. Thermowire is not just a thermometer; it allows to you share you most fantastical creations on social media too! Detail about Thermowire can be found at http://www.lavatools.co. The app will operate in simulation mode when the Thermowire probe is not connected to iOS device. FEATURES: - Wide temperature range and highly accurate - °C and °F changeable - 13 default profiles with various cooking temperature pre-programmed - 8 custom cooking profiles available for users to create - Maximum three settable temperature alarms - Push notification implemented for remote monitoring - Countdown and stopwatch - Graph plotting with extension and contraction for easy viewing - Graph information can be time stamped and sent out - Graph data export as CSV - Capture feature available for user to share cooking result with the world in both picture and text to create a social media community - Airprint support - Post to Facebook, Twitter directly
TuneHelper
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TuneHelper turns your phone into an instrument-grade measurement-signal generator for car-audio DSP tuning. Stream its output into your car over Bluetooth, USB-C or a 3.5 mm cable and measure the result with REW (Room EQ Wizard) and a calibrated microphone. Every signal is synthesized in real time, sample by sample — no pre-rendered loops, no audible seams — at a precise, honest dBFS level you can re-tune live from the driver's seat. SIGNALS • Pink & white noise — continuous, loop-seamless • Log sweep & sub sweep — frequency response and impulse • Tone bursts — transients and decay • Periodic pink noise — synchronous averaging in REW • Dirac impulses — impulse response • Sine tone — 20 Hz to 20 kHz, with optional anti-phase • 1/3-octave band noise — 32 ISO 266 bands • Stepped-sine RTA — a tone walking all 32 band centres, hands-free • Multitone comb — up to 64 tones at once, the instant RTA • Gated pink burst — DSP settling and room decay • Synthetic kick drum — sub-to-front time alignment by ear • Brown noise — heavy low end for rattle hunting ALIGNMENT & STEREO TOOLS • Inter-channel delay dial — ±5 ms in 0.01 ms steps, read the value off in ms and cm • Correlation modes — correlated, uncorrelated or anti-phase • Auto L/R — hands-free alternation between the speakers, optionally via the phantom centre • Per-driver band noise — sub, woofer, midrange and tweeter presets • Anti-phase sine, a subsonic / high-pass finder and a rattle hunter with marks WHY TUNEHELPER • 100% real-time synthesis — every signal generated live, never a looped buffer • Click-free start, stop and switching • Live spectrum analyser with optional A/C weighting, RMS metering and a clip LED • Auto-pause — cycles play and silence for hands-free averaging in REW • Save and recall measurement presets • Background audio — keeps playing with the screen locked PRIVACY No accounts, no tracking, no data collection. All settings stay on your device. You bring the mic and REW — TuneHelper brings lab-grade signals to the driver's seat.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Thermowire at Free against TuneHelper's $1.99. Thermowire also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 16.0). On update cadence, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Thermowire is free to download; TuneHelper costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Thermowire ships an update every 6 weeks, TuneHelper every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Thermowire | TuneHelper |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lavatools | Thomas Sojka |
In-app purchases
Thermowire
No in-app purchases
TuneHelper
No in-app purchases
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