Comparison

Steak Locker vs Meat Curing Tracker

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

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About

Steak Locker

This app controls a smart dry-aging fridge, allowing users to monitor and manage temperature and humidity for aging steak and charcuterie. It provides visual inventory, detailed reporting, and profit monitoring, making professional dry-aging accessible at home.

Highlights
  • Smart fridge control
  • Temperature and humidity monitoring
  • Visual inventory
  • Product yield reporting
  • Remote performance monitoring
  • 5GHz WiFi connectivity
Features
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From one chef to another: great dry-aging isn't luck. It's control. Steak Locker is the companion app for your Steak Locker smart dry age fridge — trusted in home kitchens and professional ones alike. Whether you're chasing your first 30-day ribeye or running a full dry-aging program in a restaurant, it's the difference between hoping a cut turns out and knowing it will. Open the app and your whole operation is right there: temperature, humidity, and everything that's aging, at a glance. KNOW, DON'T GUESS Watch temperature and humidity in real time, around the clock. Set your targets and Steak Locker keeps watch, sending an alert the moment something drifts — so you can step in before a single cut is at risk, whether you're in the next room or across the country. SEE THE WHOLE STORY Review 24-hour, 7-day, and 30-day history for every reading. Spot trends, confirm stability, and prove consistency — the kind of record a serious program needs. TRACK EVERY CUT Log each piece with its cut, weight, and start date. Follow days elapsed and remaining, estimated yield, and progress toward target — from a single primal to a full locker. RUN ONE LOCKER OR MANY Manage multiple lockers from a single app, each with its own targets and program. Scale from one fridge at home to a row of them in a commercial kitchen without losing the thread. GUIDED FROM DAY ONE New to dry-aging? You're covered. Built-in lessons meet you exactly where you are — from your first cut to advanced charcuterie. Seasoned pros can skip straight to the controls. STEAKHOUSE QUALITY, FOR LESS Dry-age premium beef, charcuterie, cheese, and more — results that rival the best steakhouses, at a fraction of the cost of buying it finished. Built for home cooks and professional chefs, butchers, and restaurants. Steak Locker gives you the control the craft demands. Requires a Steak Locker smart dry age fridge (or Steak Locker Smart Aging Controller).

About

Meat Curing Tracker

Features
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Salumi is a curing log for home charcutiers: follow each batch from cure to table by its weight loss, log your chamber's temperature and humidity, and keep your own recipes. CURING PROJECTS - 26 product types, from bresaola, coppa and pancetta to salami, chorizo, 'nduja, bacon and pastrami - Record the cut, starting weight, cure method (equilibrium, excess, brine or dry rub), Cure #1 or Cure #2, spices, casing, hang date and target weight loss - Salt and cure amounts worked out from the meat weight and your percentages, with a warning when the cure type does not suit the product - Follow each batch through curing, equalizing, fermenting and aging with weight checks and progress toward your target - The home screen flags aging batches with no weight check for 7 days and those close to their target CHAMBER - Describe your chamber (dedicated chamber, converted fridge, wine cooler, basement or walk-in), its controller, humidifier, fan and target ranges - Log temperature in °C or °F and humidity, and see whether conditions are in range - Note issues and keep the full chamber history - A mold guide shows which molds are welcome, which to wipe off and when to discard a piece YOUR RECIPES Save your own recipes with salt and cure percentages, seasonings, cure and post-cure steps, casing, starter culture, fermentation temperature and target pH, chamber conditions, target weight loss, smoking and cooking notes. FREE Up to 3 projects, 10 weight checks per project, 15 chamber logs and 5 recipes. SALUMI PRO - Unlimited projects, weight checks, chamber logs and recipes - A weight loss chart for every project - Expenses for each project with the cost per kg - Cure together: invite a partner to follow and log the same batches, chambers and recipes on their own iPhone, with their Pro included Salumi Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription that renews automatically. Cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Steak Locker4 screens
Meat Curing Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Steak Locker at none against Meat Curing Tracker's 3. Steak Locker also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18). On price, update cadence and ads 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. Meat Curing Tracker sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Steak Locker asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Steak Locker ships an update every 2 months, Meat Curing Tracker monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Steak Locker versus Meat Curing Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSteak LockerMeat Curing Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews15.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size37 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBruno Investments LLCKarol Jaworski

In-app purchases

None

Steak Locker

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Meat Curing Tracker

Subscriptions3
  • Salumi Pro$4.991 Month
  • Salumi Pro$39.991 Year
  • Salumi Pro1 Year trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Steak Locker free?
Steak Locker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Meat Curing Tracker free?
Meat Curing Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Steak Locker or Meat Curing Tracker have ads?
Neither Steak Locker nor Meat Curing Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Steak Locker or Meat Curing Tracker?
Steak Locker ships an update every 2 months, and Meat Curing Tracker monthly. Most recently, Steak Locker was updated on November 1, 2026 and Meat Curing Tracker on November 9, 2026.

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