Anova Culinary 12+

With the included guides and the ability to store favourite recipes this app makes cooking with Anova easier than ordering takeaway.

I have the WiFi + Bluetooth Anova cooker. Since setting the app up it has been almost seamless. Only one hiccough occurred when I had some WiFi mishaps. Deleting, reinstalling, and then reconnecting resolved whatever the problem was.

Getting notifications that the cooler has reached temp, that it has finished, and then being able to adjust its setting remotely is a real help when out of the house or working elsewhere at home.

Perhaps I’m doing something very wrong?

Perhaps not.

This app certainly does what it says - after about 3 or 4 attempts. The app frequently un-syncs/disconnects itself from the Anova device. I’ve had to reinstall the app twice because it completely failed to sync/reconnect - When it does work it is quite handy - really. I think the app is a nice idea, but in all honesty it’s usefulness really compromised by it’s highly frustrating syncing issues that complicate the sous vide experience; an app should enrich an overall experience not hinder it!

On top of the syncing issues the timer more often than not will reset itself, making it rather difficult to cook to ‘precision’.

Perhaps with some updates these issues will be fixed, and to be fair to the app it is very simple, has extensive visuals and guides but with very simple in app navigation - and WHEN it works it is a pleasure to use.

Sadly however use of the Anova device is just far easier, more practical and involves less hassle and frustration without the app. Set the temperature on the Anova device manually and ask good old Siri to give you a count down. Now there’s something that will never fail...

Well, here’s to hoping, anyway.

The app does a good job in controlling the device, which is its core use case. I care about being able to start the device remotely and monitor it.

The recipes and guides are a nice bonus.

Reading the replies, it sounds like the app team's priorities may have been the other way around initially, leading to buggy core functionality which meant that the pretty pictures and 'community' aspects were invalidated. Now that whoever is in charge of the product has figured this out, it's all come together nicely.