Comparison

SmartThermo vs forkenspoon

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

Head to head
About

SmartThermo

Easily monitor your meat's temperature while grilling or smoking. Insert the probe, select your food and desired doneness, and receive alerts when it's perfectly cooked. Features include Bluetooth connectivity, a long-lasting battery, and multiple cooking modes.

Highlights
  • Wireless meat temperature monitoring
  • Bluetooth connectivity
  • Preset temperatures for 8 meats
  • Custom doneness programming
  • Alerts for perfect temperature
  • Multiple cooking modes (Meat Profiles, Timer, Target Temp)
Features
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It has been never easy to take your meat from grill. Now you can use this Smart Thermo® to make grill easier. Just simple insert the SmartThermo® probe into the meat you'd like to track, let the free app know what you're tracking and leave your SmartThermo® by the side of the grill (or smoker). This SmartThermo® alerts you when your meal has reached the perfect temperature. Program your choice of eight entrees and choose the desired doneness - and you're good to grill! - Bluetooth® v4.0 -100-hour battery life -Backlight LCD display -High-strength Magnetic on back for vertical mounting -Modern Touch Key Display -3 Modes: Meat Profiles / Countdown Timer / Target Temperature -Preset temperatures for and doneness for BEEF, LAMB, VEAL, HAMBURGER, PORK, TURKEY, CHICKEN & FISH. App requires a Bluetooth® Smart Ready device.

About

forkenspoon

Features
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It's 5pm, and somehow nobody in the house knows what's for dinner. Again. Forkenspoon fixes that by putting a whole community of home cooks in your corner. Discover what other families are cooking Browse dishes shared by real home cooks — not polished food-blog perfection, just what people actually make on a Tuesday night. Follow the ones whose taste matches yours, and let their week inspire your own. Fork a recipe, make it yours Found a dish you're keen to try? Fork it. Tweak it to taste, and it stays linked back to where the idea started — because a good recipe only gets better as it passes from kitchen to kitchen. Plan the week in five minutes Drag dishes — yours or forked from the community — onto the week ahead and just… see it. No more "we have nothing planned" panic at 5pm. A grocery list that writes itself Whatever's on the plan turns straight into a shopping list — tick things off as you go, or copy the whole thing to send to whoever's doing the shop. Cook together as a household Set up a household so meal plans and grocery lists sync for everyone — no more "I thought YOU were sorting dinner" texts. Switch on Household mode and choose from everyone's recipes, likes, and go-tos in one shared list, so picking what's for dinner is a group decision, not a guessing game. Keep the family secrets, secret Not every recipe is meant for sharing. Save grandma's lasagna as a "secret recipe" and it stays yours alone. Forkenspoon isn't trying to turn you into a food influencer. It's a community built around one simple idea: recipes are better shared.

Screenshots

SmartThermo3 screens
forkenspoon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: forkenspoon at every 3 days against SmartThermo's monthly. SmartThermo's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SmartThermo ships an update monthly, forkenspoon every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SmartThermo versus forkenspoon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmartThermoforkenspoon
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.8 (41 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews16.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings41 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFuzhou Emax Electronic Co.,LtdErick Alingcastre

Bugs and requests

SmartThermo

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • App not connecting to phone
  • Thermometer not charging
  • App buttons hidden by notch
  • App reverts to Celsius
  • Bluetooth connection drops frequently
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  • Timer function stopped working
  • App crashes with iOS 9.0.1
  • App not working with iOS 9.1
  • App not pairing with new versions
  • App not connecting to ET-737
  • App not pairing with iOS 10

Requested features

9 requests
  • Update UI for newer iPhones
  • Allow multiple device support
  • Color coding for probes
  • Add Apple Watch app
  • Add graph of temperature
Show 4 more
  • Estimate time to reach temp
  • Alerts for cool down temperatures
  • Ability to set alarms within app
  • Timers continue when disconnected

forkenspoon

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

SmartThermo

No in-app purchases

None

forkenspoon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SmartThermo free?
SmartThermo is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is forkenspoon free?
forkenspoon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SmartThermo or forkenspoon have ads?
Neither SmartThermo nor forkenspoon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SmartThermo or forkenspoon?
SmartThermo ships an update monthly, and forkenspoon every 3 days. Most recently, SmartThermo was updated on October 14, 2026 and forkenspoon on October 10, 2026.

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