SmokeChamber
Gary Vincent Food & Drink iPhoneiPadiPod touch
SmokeChamber is a free Food & Drink app for iPhone and iPad by Gary Vincent. Requires iOS 15.0. Updated September 29, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 119 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 29
- 2026 · v1.4.0
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About SmokeChamber
Cook something serious. Smoke Chamber is the brand-agnostic BBQ and smoking app for pitmasters who care about the cook, not the brand of pit they're cooking on. Built around a deep recipe corpus you'll actually use, a live cook timeline that walks you through every step, and optional Bluetooth thermometer pairing for hands-off temperature tracking. THE RECIPE CORPUS • 480+ cooks across every regional tradition: Texas brisket, Carolina pulled pork, Memphis ribs, Kansas City burnt ends, Alabama white sauce wings, Korean galbi, Filipino lechon, Argentine asado, and more. • Every recipe has a real cook photo, full ingredient list, and step-by-step technique. Pills for cut, difficulty, and style. A cook-time chip on every card (Quick · Half-day · Slow · Overnight) tells you the time commitment at a glance. • Sauces and rubs are first-class recipes — Memphis, Korean, hot honey, coffee stout, Carolina mustard, brown sugar bourbon. Add your own the same way you add custom cooks. COOK MODE (Pro) • Pick a recipe, tap Start cook. The app walks you through every step with a live countdown. • Per-step time remaining: "1h 12m left in step 2 (wrap in foil)" — so you can put the phone down and step away from the pit. • Multi-cook: run brisket + ribs + sides simultaneously, switch between them from the Browse banner. THERMOMETER INGEST (Pro) • Pair a Bluetooth probe — Inkbird IBT series support rolling out. Mock mode lets you preview the workflow today. • Pit/ambient channel + per-meat channels render on the cook screen and the persistent notification. SMART SWAPS + DIETARY ADAPTER • "I'm out of mesquite, what works?" — fast, real substitution suggestions that account for what you actually have. • "Make it Keto / Paleo / Whole30 / Low-sodium / Sugar-free / Gluten-free / Dairy-free / Spicier / Milder" — adapts the whole cook and saves it as a new variant with a suggested name. CUSTOM COOKS • Build any cook manually or from prompts (cut + style + technique + notes). • Attach photos: camera, library, or a Pro hero image. • Edit any time. Your custom cooks live alongside the corpus on Browse. PANTRY SCAN • Snap a label, a cut on the board, or a bag of pellets. Smoke Chamber identifies the item and adds it to your pantry — proteins, woods, rubs, sauces, marinades, produce, dairy. • "What can I cook?" surfaces recipes that match what you have, plus near-matches you're 1–2 ingredients away from. PHOTO COOK JOURNAL • Snap your bark, your slice, your plate. Logged with rating, notes, and the recipe you ran. CLOUD BACKUP (Pro) • Sign in with Apple or Google. Custom cooks, journal, pantry, photos, favorites all sync across your devices. PRO PRICING • $5.99/month · $34.99/year (≈ $2.92/mo, save 51%) · $69.99 lifetime. • Cancel anytime. Pro unlocks Cook Mode, BLE thermometer ingest, unlimited custom cooks, hero image generation, and cloud backup. • Free tier gets the full 480+ recipe corpus, favorites, pantry, photo journal, and 3 saved custom cooks. Built by Vintek Solutions. No ads. No data resale. No smoker brand pushing pellets at you. Terms of Use (EULA): https://vinteksolutions.com/terms-smokechamber-apple.html "What's New" (release_notes.txt — Play caps at 500 chars) • Cook Mode (Pro): live step-by-step timeline with per-step countdowns, multi-cook support, optional BLE thermometer ingest. • Custom cooks: edit any time, attach photos (camera, library, or AI-generated hero), tap-to-detail from Browse. • Pantry scan: snap a label or cut, identifies + adds to your pantry in one tap. • 480+ recipes now — proteins, sides, sauces, rubs.
What’s new
Version 1.4.0 · Updated September 29, 2026
Free-tier users now get an occasional reminder of what Pro unlocks.
App privacy
The developer, Gary Vincent, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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