iSmokeHog vs BF Home
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iSmokeHog
This app assists in creating homemade cured meats like bacon and ham. It calculates precise ingredient ratios for salt, sugar, and sodium nitrite based on user input, offering default settings and guidance for bacon preparation.
- Cured meat recipe calculation
- Ingredient ratio guidance
- Salt, sugar, and sodium nitrite calculations
- Default settings for bacon
- Step-by-step instructions
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Use this app to help you make your own bacon, ham, or other cured meats! This app calculates the correct amounts of salt, sugar, and sodium nitrite (the essential ingredient for cured meats) to mix and apply to your meat based upon your inputs. Comes with default settings and instructions for home made bacon!
BF Home
This utility app connects to specific BF devices to display real-time temperature readings and provide alarm reminders. It offers a straightforward interface for monitoring environmental conditions from your iPhone or iPod.
- Real-time temperature display
- Alarm reminders
- Connects to BF-5/BF-6/BF-20/BF-30/BF-40
- iPhone and iPod support
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BF Home connect to BF-5/BF-6/BF-20/BF-30/BF-40 to realize real-time temperature display and alarm reminder.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: iSmokeHog at 100% against BF Home's 38%. iSmokeHog also leads on rating (4.3 vs 2.6) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 13.0). BF Home's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 39 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
iSmokeHog holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of iSmokeHog's written reviews are positive against 38% of BF Home's.
iSmokeHog ships an update every 39 months, BF Home every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iSmokeHog | BF Home |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (7 ratings) — better | 2.6 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 37.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Josef Schmidt | 标 何 |
Customer experience
iSmokeHog
BF Home
In-app purchases
iSmokeHog
No in-app purchases
BF Home
No in-app purchases
