TempSpike
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TempSpike has no in-app products on record in the United States.
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| Rating / 5 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.0 |
| Reviews | 3.6K | 355K | 243K | 39K | 36K | 25K | 14K | 12K | 9.6K | 5.4K | 2.4K |
| Released | 2022 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2020 | 2018 | 2021 | 2015 | 2024 | 2020 | 2023 |
| Monthly price | — | — | — | $1.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Annual price | — | — | — | $9.99 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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TempSpike reviews
4.6 out of 5, based on 3,565 reviews.
What people like
- Cooking results are consistently perfect
- Keeps lid closed for better smoke
- Works well inside pressure cookers
What they complain about
- Bluetooth range is too short
- Probes die before cooking finishes
- No lock screen or widget updates
- App interface is confusing and cluttered
Just get one!
This thing is far and away the best grilling/smoking temp sensor I own. I wish I had 5 more. Just get one. You won’t be disappointed.
POS
Impossible to pair with your phone. Save your money.
Battery indicator
It would be great if you could see the battery percentage for each device, instead of the thermometer battery life.
Could be way better
Every time I want to use it seems to be dead or disconnects from my phone literally only ever used this one time on a full cook with another probe in it just too see if it was accurate definitely go with one of their other products
Thermometers are great, app is mid
The thermometers are working great. Temperatures are consistent with my other calibrated thermometers. The app is so-so. The temperature value is cut off so I have to go into the app and then click on the thermometer I want to see the temperature on. All I see is 2… instead of 225 on the front screen. Dev make your font fit to be able to read the temps on the home screen please.
Juan
Love it
Do not buy their products
Used temp spike maybe 4 or 5 times and the probe no longer connects to my phone. Such a finicky product for 80 bucks. Save your money and get a decent one.
Not too bad
I like it. Once we get a widget the I’ll give it 5 stars
Connection problems.
Doesn’t stay connected. I would say it stays connected for about 15 mins and randomly just goes out. It’ll randomly come back on when it feels like it. It’s not just my phone, it’s the main hub too. Battery life is inaccurate, full charged 2 bars, 1 bar will last 18 hours. It’ll tell you low battery for another 12. As a casual bbq person it’s okay for ribs and a pork butt. Brisket is a gamble.
Issues. This is second set. Loved until issues
This makes the second set. Customer service was terrific Knut the new set only the black probe works white one doesn't. I've when through every thing suggested to fix?! Ideas ok??
Transplant patient I never take a chance of undercooking TempSpike is excellent safety!
Needing to know for sure my foods cooked this gets it done like no other!
Defective products
All their devices fail within a year and they just come out with a different design and resell the same garbage. Both probes fail to connect to base now and support is non-existent. Even the app is a lie. Sometimes the base will show the correct temp, but the app says it’s connected but shows the same temp without updating. Trash product, trash app, trash company!
Need more connections
Works great. I need to run 4 at a time and limited to 3. Also if you could add cloud connection like MEATER does it would be perfect.
Kerntemperatur
Leider passen die Temperaturen in der App nicht mit dem tatsächlichen Gargrad zusammen. Rindfleisch z.B. ist bei 66C nicht mehr Medium sonder Vollgar
Smoking
One is working and one is not and they both set up the same way and charged both the night before I smoking….? May have to throw one away and keep the other!!! Ugh And Probly not buy again!!! Peace
Excellent product works better than you would expect
Works as advertised. I’ve used it inside a pressure cooker. You can’t beat that.
Worst product I’ve ever purchased
Genuinely confusing as to how this product has any positive reviews. The physical product itself appears to have been over designed to the point of removing any necessary relevant buttons to have only 1. The thermometers have only ever connected for a brief period of time before immediately either dying or not syncing.
Good product but not perfect
This is a good product, only issue is it doesn’t take into account residual temp when cooking. For example, if you cook the beef to 52 degrees, by the time you rest the meat it’s then 72-75 degrees over cooked. Just something to think about. However, very easy to set the temperature yourself.
Alerts won’t stop
If I set an alarm to go off when the meat gets to temperature, if keeps coming back after you dismiss it. So if you are cooking 2 things and take one off the alarm keeps coming back on after a few seconds. Also there’s no live activity. App seems to be abandoned. No significant updates.
Notifications are terrible otherwise good product
Why on earth does it sound like a nuclear bomb was authorized to launch from my phone just because the device connects from Bluetooth
Nice but usability problems
I naively assumed that I would be able to monitor the temperature of my smoked meats remotely. No, my phone must be near the smoker because the app connects directly to the TempSpike Plus device by Bluetooth. It doesn’t do what my other devices do which is connect to my WiFi and post updates to the server so I can use it on the go. Lame. The other usability problem is that the Fahrenheit temperature tries to show one significant digit instead of rounding which means sometimes the number is too wide to appear so it is truncated with an ellipsis and I can’t even read the number on the overview page. On the TempSpike Plus device which has a digital readout it rounds the numbers and doesn’t have this problem. Note I am using two probes at the same time so of course I want to monitor both at once on the overview page in the app. But I have to click to go into the detail screen of each one. Lame.
Probe will not pair
This product is worthless. The probe will not pair. The base pairs fine but that makes the product unusable. I’ve tried everything. It used to work fine but now it’s worthless. Buy another meat probe this one is terrible. It only identifies as a meat probe I would give it a negative rating if that were an option.
Notifications could be better
The app itself works fine but I really wish there was an option to have a persistent “banner” on your Lock Screen that displayed the ambient and internal temperatures so that you didn’t have to open the app every time you want to check it. Would be nice to be able to just glance at your Lock Screen
Functional and Good, but Lacking
The app does what it’s advertised to be; record temperature data. Buggy at times when you attempt to record data when connection interrupts, probe disconnects, and app crashes; and you can’t pickup from where you left it to be. The data record function will be absent and pickup later when stable connection is established. I leave it to the developers to figure out the detail themselves. The lacking portion of this app is that it simply does not rotate into landscape mode in iPad versions, and it does not have any special features of any kind. Maybe a workable estimate, the current estimate calculation is plainly off. Or maybe more features to add custom selection of temperature presets than that is already pre installed now.
Accurate/App needs work
I have been using this thermometer for many years and got a few as gifts too. Works great. App needs a low temp setting for resting meats. That second alarm would be very helpful!
50/50
Did my first big cook this weekend. The white probe was perfect, and lasted the entire nine hour cook. The black probe quit at five hours and claimed to need recharging. Currently doing a dry run to see if it was just a glitch.
Absolutely awful
This is a complete pile. Won't connect well and on the off chance it does, lasts for 30 seconds. Really liked it at first use and went to garbage from there to next use
Helpful, but interface design is lacking
I think the most helpful feature of this app is the estimated cooking time left. It really helps me to estimate what time dinner will be at. My largest complaint — Are the alarm buttons on when they are red or white?! This app should conform to iOS design elements, such as the on/off buttons used in the iPhone Settings app.
Love the device. Hate the app.
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.
Spike battery issue
I bought two single spike probes, and gifted one to a friend. His spike and booster works perfectly. My spike battery dies way before the meat reaches the target temperature. The booster works fine, but the spike is usually dead before the cooking is finished. Are these spikes guaranteed? I wish the company would replace the spike
Easy and Accurate
This wireless meat thermometer helps me cook everything just right. I am so glad I got it. Things are cooked just how I want them now without me guessing or cutting into the meat several times.
Basically useless
Probe reads 100 degrees lower than my temp gauge. Probe battery only lasts 45 minutes.
WIDGET NEEDED
Love the product and works great and simplifies my cooking but I sure would love a widget so I don’t have to keep opening the app!!!!
Please add
Just a few more features in this app would be awesome. We need a widget or some kind of notification letting us know what the temperature is at all times instead of having to open the app back up to see what temperatures are. Maybe use the live activity in the Dynamic Island of the iPhone.
Helping hands
These probes work great and really help to keep the lid closed
Colors reversed on dual probs
Colors match on booster and probs but then reversed on app
Wow
How do you set the target temp below 125 beef rare?1
Accessibility issues
App Needs work for those of us who are blind or visually impaired, who use voiceover, or talk back. The app isn't the greatest with a screen reader. Buttons are not labeled, so a person with visual disabilities really doesn't know what most buttons do, because the screen reader is not able to tell us. Hopefully the devs will do something about this thank you.
Ease of operation
With this temperature stick it takes all the guess work out of smoking everything.
Connection blows.
The spike doesn’t stay connected through my Weber kettle. I’m very disappointed in this product overall.
Nice app with room to grow!
Pros: Easy to use, has important info at a glance, reliable, yet to experience much delay between the app and probe, ability to amend the meat settings is nice. Cons: Cool graph only updates when you open the app, so rather than an actual visuals of the cook, it’s just leaps in temps. I assume this is just a bug as I’m sure I’ve seen it working in reviews, etc. The meat selection UI is very basic and lacks popular cuts. It would be good to see something a little closer to what Meater has.
Works OK
Range is not long enough
1 Year Review
I’ve had mine for a year now and this thing has been great. I use it in the oven and on the smoker outside. The unit itself and the app are fantastic.
I should’ve read the reviews
Disconnects at least 30 times
Excellent
Vraiment beau produit. Suggestion: ajouter la possibilité d’avoir des ‘’widgets’’ avec Apple.
Good but has issues
The app has a glitch which identifies identifies your probe as the opposite color, i.e., black for the white one and vice versa. Makes it tricky when you’re measuring meat temperatures.
TempSpike FAQ
- Is TempSpike free?
- Yes. The app is free, in all 175 countries it sells in, and it sells nothing inside it.
- Does TempSpike have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- What are the best alternatives to TempSpike?
- Traeger (4.8 from 354,511 reviews), MEATER® Smart Meat Thermometer (4.7 from 243,367 reviews) and Anova Culinary (4.4 from 39,088 reviews, premium from $1.99).
TempSpike download
Last updated 2 months ago.
TempSpike sells in 175 countries. It was released 4 years and 6 months ago, on 26 Mar 2022. It holds a 4.6 rating from 3,565 reviews.
Supports 5 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish.
How much does TempSpike make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.