TempSpike

It loses cooking progress when you close the app. FIX please and I’ll change

The device itself is fantastically useful. Put something on the bbq and get notifications from inside the house with the doors closed because the AC is on, yes please. But the app is awful. It’s massively over complicated. Like having to choose a meat type. It constantly forgets settings. 300 sounds is overkill (most of them annoying or repeats) and I had to save a note of my choices elsewhere because it keeps losing them. The reality is, most of the time I want to just use my old dumb probe thermometer because it’s simple. That’s what I need from the app. Forget the profiles. Slim the settings. Unclutter the UX. I want to be able to just open the app, set a target temp, and get an alarm. My old dumb probe doesn’t care what I’m cooking, just the temp. There’s way too many steps and choices involved for this.

Love it!

Seems like an easy fix. I bought a fourth and now I’m stuck with only three. Why impose a limit when maybe I am cooking 4 different things. Fix it.

I really enjoy the app and flexibility to create your own settings and track cooking profiles. As I write this app review I have notifications turned off for the temp spike app and my phone is continually beeping and vibrating because the temp spike is disconnected. Using this app outside the range or near the edge of the range basically renders your phone impossible to use because of the constant buzzing and vibrating. Very frustrating. I would not recommend to others

Great app but some of the switches are confusing to tell if they are on or off. The apple watch app is very useful but scrolling doesn’t work when selecting the item currently cooking therefor hiding some information.

I have may different ways to tract temp on my cooker but always rely on my Temp Spike … it has never let me down .. awesome battery life and amazing distance … and the closest I’ve seen to right temps … love it…

Does what it’s supposed to, when it decides to stay connected. It’s constantly sending alarms saying” device disconnected and as soon as you open it magically, it connects back.

The alarm feature is terrible. On/off don’t seem to have any real effect. Once a temp alarm has been set it’s on forever regardless of the on/off buttons in the app. The battery life isn’t good enough to smoke anything longer than about four hours, and the food temperature control is cumbersome to use.

App does what it needs to but the UX is straight out of 2005 and could use some work — it just “feels” clodgy. Nearly bought a Meater probe (which is a shoddier product) just because they have a nicer looking app!