Skip vs Fire & Smoke
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Skip
Pre-order and pay for food and drinks at your favorite cafes to avoid waiting in line. Browse menus, customize orders, and set pickup times for a seamless experience. Enjoy cash-free payments and automatic loyalty rewards.
- Pre-order food and drinks
- Cash-free in-app payments
- Customize orders
- Set pickup times
- Manage loyalty cards
- Find nearby venues
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Skip is the secret to skipping long queues in your favourite cafes. Never wait for your coffee and food again. Pre-order and pay for food and drinks with Skip and you can get on with your day. Simply select your drink and food items, or search for nearby venues and look through their menus, customise your order (1 sugar, no onion, etc), set your pick up time, confirm payment and Skip the queue! Forget your wallet? No cash on you? No worries, Skip lets you grab food and drink cash free with secure in-app payment. Skip also takes care of your cafe loyalty cards and automatically redeems your hard-earned loyalty freebies. Please note, Skip venues are currently active within Australia only.
Fire & Smoke
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LIGHT IT. WATCH IT. PULL IT AT THE RIGHT MOMENT. Fire & Smoke is a pitmaster's reference for the two ways you cook over fire low and slow in the smoker, or hot and fast on the grill. 70 cuts, each with the numbers that actually decide whether dinner works. FOR EVERY CUT • Cook temp - what to hold the smoker or grill at • Pull temp - the internal range to take it off at, which is the number that matters most and the one most people guess • Rest time - because resting is not optional • Time guide - hours per kilo, or minutes per side • Pitmaster notes - the wrap point, the stall, when to reverse sear TWO MODES Smoker mode covers the long cooks: brisket, pork shoulder, short ribs, lamb shoulder, whole birds. Grill mode covers the fast ones: steaks, chops, burgers, skewers, seafood, vegetables. BUILT FOR THE BACKYARD • Celsius or Fahrenheit — switch any time, and every temperature in the app, including the notes, changes with it • Live cook timer with an estimate from your meat's weight • Enter your probe reading and see at a glance whether it's time to pull • Doneness options for the cuts where rare to medium actually matters • No account, no ads, no tracking, nothing collected Cook to temperature, not to time. Rest your meat. Always rest your meat.
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Verdict
Skip and Fire & Smoke are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Skip | Fire & Smoke |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 44.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Skip Zero Pty Ltd | Sugarolly Mountain |
Bugs and requests
Skip
Reported bugs
16 issues- App frequently crashes and freezes
- App continually logs users out
- Payment errors and failures
- Recents, favorites, history don't work consistently
- White screen after attempting payment
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- Orders not going through to cafe
- Charged for orders that didn't go through
- Login screen presented off-page (capture)
- Account locked for no reason
- Venue status incorrectly displayed
- Credit card details displayed after deletion
- Password reset doesn't work
- Notifications appear with no content
- Order placed but not received by cafe, still charged
- Free coffee from loyalty not restored after cancellation
- Minimum purchase rule applied inconsistently with discounts
Requested features
10 requests- Keep users logged in for longer
- Improve login screen for password manager integration
- Offer FaceID/biometric login
- Allow reordering of favorite orders easily
- Add Apple Watch/Siri integration
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- Allow cafe to interact with consumers
- Add PayPal as a payment option
- Improve voucher usability
- Allow users to create favorite drinks
- Add opt-out for ads
Fire & Smoke
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Skip
No in-app purchases
Fire & Smoke
No in-app purchases









