Home sous vide cooking has become wildly successful in recent times. Once only used in restaurants, sous vide water ovens and immersion circulators now sit proudly on the bench tops of home cooks around the world. The key benefit of sous vide cooking is that each cook produces restaurant quality food every single time. Who doesn’t want that in the comfort of their own home? To learn more about sous vide cooking head to our FAQ page.

Many sous vide water ovens and immersion circulators now also come with a handy app. An app is short for application. It is a software program that is used on a smart phone or mobile device.

Sous vide apps

Here we share some of the most popular sous vide apps with you. They may well add a huge amount of value to your next sous vide cook.

Joule: Sous Vide by ChefSteps

ChefSteps offers one sous vide product which is named Joule. The Joule is a sous vide immersion circulator. We have reviewed the Joule immersion circulator here at Sous Vide Hub. Check out our review by clicking here.

ChefSteps has developed an app which is used to control the Joule immersion circulator. Just in case you are wondering, not all sous vide machines are controlled by apps so if you are prone to freak out a little with new technology, don’t despair. There are many sous vide machines that are not operated only from a companion app.

We don’t need to own a Joule to get value out of this app from ChefSteps.  It has a range of other features including a great recipe library and custom cooking video tutorials. This is one of the most reviewed apps in the sous vide market and the majority of those reviews are very positive.

Check the app out here:

https://www.chefsteps.com/joule/app

This app is available on the App store for iOS devices and Google Play for Android users.

SousVidePro

Sous Vide Pro is a multi-lingual (German, English, French and Italian) sous-vide app for working safely and simply with sous vide cooking/water baths and sous vide thermal/immersion circulators. Whether you are cooking meat, poultry fish or vegetables, a few clicks on this app will help you find the required cooking temperature and time for almost every type of food. Convenient huh? The concept is definitely a good one but to be honest, the reviews are not that glowing at this point.

The other thing we really like about this app is that the cooking temperatures and times have been calculated in countless trials by top chefs. They are constantly being further updated and expanded. Given both accuracy of temperature and cook timing are very important parts of a successful sous vide cook, this comes in really handy.

This app is available on the App store for iOS devices and Google Play for Android users.

Anova Culinary (Free)

Anova Culinary offers one sous vide product which is the Anova Culinary Sous Vide Precision Cooker Immersion Circulator. We have reviewed the Anova Culinary immersion circulator here at Sous Vide Hub. Check it out by clicking here

This app is THE most popular sous vide app on the market at the time of writing this article. It offers over 1000 recipes, caters to beginners and andvacnce sous vide cooks. It even has simple directions to walk through each recipe.

You can check it out right here:

https://anovaculinary.com/app

This app is available on the App store for iOS devices and on Google Play for Android users.

Tender: Sous Vide Recipes

This app has been developed by Nomiku. Nomiku has one sous vide product on the market which is the Nomiku WiFi Sous Vide Immersion Circulator 1100 watts. With this app, you can create and share sous vide recipes with the sous vide community. You can also follow chefs to see what they are cooking. Nomiku states that the “format is templated so recipes are easy to create, easy to follow, and easy to understand.”

The app also allows you to control your WiFi Nomiku immersion circulator remotely but the reviewer community is small and the reviews are not too flash at the time of writing this article. Reviewers mainly site that connection to their WiFi Nomiku doesn’t work at all well.

Maybe just using some of the recipes from the user community on the Tender:Sous Vide Recipes app might be the way to go at this point. Tender connects to social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest so you can create and share recipes with your friends and family easily.

This app is available on the App store for iOS devices and Google Play for Android users.

Gourmia Sous Vide (Free)

Gourmia offers a range of kitchen appliances. Sous vide products are part of this range. Gourmia offer the Gourmia GSV138 Immersion Circulator, the Gourmia GSV130 Immersion Circulator, the Gourmia GSV150 Immersion Circulator and the Gourmia GSV900 Sous Vide Water Oven.

This Gourmia app does not focus exclusively on sous vide cooking. As a result this app offers less sous vide specific information, recipes, guides and hints and tips than other sous vide apps on the market.  We have noticed that there are some fairly scathing reviews for the Gourmia app at the time of writing this article. However, it does look as though you may experience smoother sailing if you update your phone software.

Here’s a link to learn more about the Gourmia app.

The Gourmia app is available on the App Store for iOS devices and Google Play for Android users.

Sansaire (Free)

Sansaire offers one sous vide product which is the Sansaire Sous Vide Immersion Circulator (1100 watts). We have reviewed the Sansaire immersion circulator here at Sous Vide Hub. Check it out by clicking here.

The Sansaire app provides sous vide times and temperatures for “perfect doneness”. The app contains a range of recipes from fast and simple options to more difficult recipes for those who are up for a new sous vide challenge.

Again the reviews community is very small at this stage so we can’t provide a huge amount of feedback on this app. There are not too many recent reviews either which makes us think it is not a popular app among the sous vide community.

Click here to learn more about the Sansaire app

The Sansaire app is available on the App Store for iOS devices and Google Play for Android users.

Mellow (Free)

A reasonably new player in the sous vide product market, Mellow offers one sous vide machine which looks uber cool and modern. Given Mellow has only recently entered the market their app reviews are understandably limited at the time of writing. What we can say is that those who have reviewed the app are reasonably happy with it’s performance. There are some glitches but we are sure Mellow will work out any kinks in the coming months.

At this stage the Mellow app is used to pair with the sous vide machine so that you can control your cook via the app. Mellow does not showcase any recipes on their app as yet.

You can learn more about the Mellow app by clicking here.

The Mellow app is available on the App Store for iOS devices and Google Play for Android users.

Great British Chefs app (Free)

This app brings to you 12 chef’s 3 full menus with 5 courses each. It contains 180 recipes (they are not all sous vide recipes). The recipes come with photographs, ingredient lists, cooking times, equipment, wine recommendations and method steps. Brilliant!

As with the Great British Chefs app, this app is available for iPad, iPhone, Windows and Windows Phone

Great Italian Chefs app (Free)

This app brings to you 26 chef’s recipes that “represent the regional diversity of Italian cuisine”. There are over 100 recipes (they are not all sous vide recipes) featured and these include photographs, clear ingredient lists, steps and great tips from their chefs. The images on this app will have you wishing you could grab the food right out of your smart phone. The food imagery is VERY inspiring.

As with the Great British Chefs app, this app is available for iPad, iPhone, Windows and Windows Phone

Meat Cut apps

In addition to the specialised sous vide hub apps above, there are also some very helpful apps around which help you better understand various cuts of meat. In sous vide cooking, you can turn any meat cut into a restaurant quality meal. As such you can use low quality cuts of meat and still be a hero in your own kitchen. Here are two apps that are getting positive reviews from those who use them:

Meat Cuts (Free)

This app is designed to give you information about beef, lamb, veal and goat cuts. It tells you where individual cuts come from, their characteristics and suggested cooking methods. They even match recipes to cuts of meat AND offer alternative cuts to the one you are looking for.

We must mention however that there are no sous vide recipes here which will disappoint some. The other reviewer community gripe is that Meat Cuts does not cover pork. Still, we think that this app can provide considerable value to your cooking if you need a little help understandings cuts of meat better.

The Meat Cuts app is available on the App Store for iOS devices and Google Play for Android users.

Nose to Tail: Cuts of Meat (for learning more about cuts of meat)

This app allows you to explore a number of animals using their butcher’s diagram or an X-ray feature to find more interesting cuts of meat. The app has different categories and for sous vide cooks in particular will love their slow cook section.

Beef comes free with the app and contains over 80 unique beef cuts. An additional in-app purchase unlocks chicken cuts, pig cuts and lamb cuts adding over 120 additional meat cuts.

The majority of reviewers give this app 5 stars. The glitches look to be that when users move to make an in-app purchase via Facebook to “upgrade” and get other meat products, the app freaks out a little. It should be noted however that you don’t have to use Facebook to make an in-app purchase.

Given a lot of sous vide recipes revolve around beef, many sous vide cooks will find great value in this app in it’s free form.

The Nose to Tail: Cuts of Meat app is available on the App Store for iOS devices and Google Play for Android users.

Well we hope our round up of apps provides some value to you. Here’s a range of resources that might come in handy as well.

Further resources you might be interested in

Sous vide recipe library

Sous vide article: The best websites for sous vide recipes

Top sous vide product companies list 

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