Melon Picker vs Quench
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Melon Picker
This app helps you select the perfect watermelon using a guided checklist or AI-powered photo analysis. It provides ripeness scores, detailed evaluations, and saves your picking history. You can also find watermelon recipes within the app.
- Expert checklist for ripeness
- AI photo analysis
- Ripeness scoring
- Evaluation history
- Watermelon recipes
- Offline checklist mode
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That moment at the melon bin, knocking on watermelons and hoping? It is over. Melon Picker tells you which one to take home. TWO WAYS TO PICK Checklist: five quick yes-or-no questions on the signs growers actually use. Shape, heft, field spot, skin texture and the thump test. You get a score and a verdict in under a minute, and it works with no signal at all, so it is ready in any store or field. AI scan: point the camera at a watermelon and get a ripeness score in seconds, with notes on the field spot, skin, shape and what to do next. It is like bringing a produce expert along, minus the small talk. KEEP GETTING BETTER - Save every pick and compare melons side by side - Watch your hit rate climb as you learn the signs - Browse watermelon recipes for the one you bring home THE SMALL PRINT - No account - The checklist works offline - Free, supported by ads. If you bought Melon Picker, you never see ads
Quench
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Quench turns "what's the heat treat for this steel?" into a complete, equipment-aware schedule. Pick a steel, enter blade thickness and target hardness, and tell Quench the gear you own. Get a complete plan: preheat, austenitize temperature and thickness-scaled soak, an equipment-aware quench, cryo when required, and temper temperatures for your target HRC. Inspect the sources and reasoning behind your schedule. FROM DATASHEET TO SCHEDULE - Each steel is a structured record from manufacturer datasheets, carrying its source list and last-verified date. - Soak time scales to your blade thickness, not to an industrial section. - The quench stage picks the best option you own - and honestly blocks with alternatives when your gear can't do a steel justice. - Stainless in forge mode is refused, with the reason. A cryo-required steel will not render a schedule without its cryo stage. RUN THE DAY - HT Session Mode runs a schedule stage by stage with countdown timers and a Live Activity showing the current stage and next action. CLOSE THE LOOP - Every run is logged with its schedule, stage actuals, quench used, measured HRC, outcome tags, and photos. - One tap re-runs a proven batch exactly. - Log your measured hardness and Quench learns your shop's offset per steel, then compensates the next schedule. FREE - Six starter steels with complete schedules: 1084, 1095, 80CrV2, 5160, O1, AEB-L. - HT Session Mode and the Live Activity. - Five batch logs, your shop profile, and the safety and sourcing surfaces. PRO - The full steel corpus - 40 cited steels at launch (growing), each with a complete thickness-scaled, equipment-aware schedule. - Temper solver - solve temper temperatures for your target HRC within the reachable range. Re-temper a blade that's too hard; a blade that's too soft requires re-heat-treating, because tempering cannot add hardness. - Kiln program export - any schedule as a ramp/setpoint/hold segment table, shared as text or PDF. - Personal HRC calibration - your measured batches teach Quench your shop's per-steel offset. - Custom steels - author your own steel records in the same schema, badged as your data. - Unlimited batch logs, beyond the free tier's five. - Side-by-side comparison of two steels' full process records. - Home and Lock Screen widgets for the session countdown and last-batch re-run. - Batch share cards - blade photo, steel, schedule summary, and measured HRC. HOW THE NUMBERS ARE MADE Quench is rule-based. Every temperature, time, medium, and temper curve is compiled from manufacturer datasheets and public references as facts, cited per steel. Quench schedules - it never certifies or guarantees an outcome. Always verify against your steel supplier's current datasheet. YOUR SHOP, YOUR RECORDS Your steels, schedules, and batches live on your iPhone. There is no account and nothing to sign up for. Quench uses Apple StoreKit for Pro product information, offer eligibility, purchases, and restoration. Designed exclusively for iPhone. SUBSCRIPTION & PURCHASE - Lifetime: a one-time purchase that unlocks every Pro feature - the corpus grows, your price doesn't. - Yearly: auto-renewing. A free trial is shown only when Apple confirms eligibility and an offer is available; its duration and the price afterward are displayed before purchase. Existing Monthly subscriptions remain supported and can be managed in your Apple Account subscription settings. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. Subscriptions auto-renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends; manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Any unused free-trial portion is forfeited when purchasing a subscription. Privacy Policy: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/quench/privacy Terms of Service: https://app-legal-pages.vercel.app/quench/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Melon Picker at none against Quench's 3. Melon Picker also leads on update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Quench's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Quench sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Melon Picker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Melon Picker ships an update every 5 weeks, Quench every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Melon Picker | Quench |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks โ better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 โ better | 17.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tyler Mecham | ๆ งๆ ง ้ซ |
In-app purchases
Melon Picker
No in-app purchases
Quench
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$7.991 Year
- LifetimeFree







