Live coaching for serious pitmasters. Log your temps, snap a photo of your bark — GrillPilot tells you what to do next.
GrillPilot's AI Chef knows your live readings, your stage, your past cooks, and your photos. It gives advice that actually applies to your cook — not generic internet wisdom.
Log your pit and meat temps. The AI Chef sees every reading and answers with real context — "you're in the stall, here's what to do."
Snap your bark, your bend test, your fire. Ask "is this ready to wrap?" or "what's wrong with my pellet feed?" Get an answer that's looking at the same picture you are.
Structured ingredients, prep checklist, stage tracker. Tick off "trim brisket, dry brine 8h, light coals at 9pm" — every step lives where you can see it during the cook.
"Generate a 12 lb pork butt for a Saturday party." GrillPilot writes the full recipe — ingredients, prep, stages, target temps — tuned to your grill type.
Recipe written for an offset? Adapt it for your kamado in one tap — wrap timing, wood choice, vent strategy all rewritten for your specific setup.
Browse, clone, and rate recipes from other Pro pitmasters. Publish your own. (Pro feature.)
Add your kamado, pellet, offset, gas, kettle, or pizza oven. GrillPilot tunes its advice for each one.
Pick a recipe, generate one with AI, or set up manually. Log a temp every time you check the pit — the chart and the AI Chef update live.
Ask anything during the cook. The Chef sees your live data and replies with advice you can actually use right now.
Free during the TestFlight beta. Cancel anytime once paid plans launch.
Free tier: 20 AI Chef prompts/month, all the cook tracking, manual temp logging. No card required.
I'm Scott. I cook on a Big Green Egg most weekends. I built GrillPilot because the apps that came with my thermometers were either glorified temp graphs or recipe vaults, and ChatGPT didn't know my grill, my stage, or my cook. So I made the thing I wanted: an AI that's in the pit with me, knows what I'm cooking, and gives real advice. If you're the kind of person who's tweaked a vent at 2am or texted a friend "wrap or push?" — this is for you.
— Scott Bedwell, founder · scott@sbedwell.net
No. Any thermometer works — you log readings yourself when you check the pit. Wireless thermometer integration (FireBoard 2 Drive first) is on the roadmap; if that matters to you, email me and I'll let you know when it ships.
All of them. GrillPilot is grill-agnostic — kamado (BGE, Kamado Joe, Primo), pellet (Traeger, Recteq, Pit Boss, Yoder), offset stick burner, gas, kettle, pizza oven, griddle. The AI Chef tunes advice for whichever you're cooking on.
Yes. We don't sell data, share it with advertisers, or use it for cross-app tracking. Your cooks, photos, and AI conversations are private to you. Community recipes are only visible if you choose to publish them. Full privacy policy.
Pro is $19.99/mo or $149.99/yr (a 37% discount, so $12.50 effective monthly). That's higher than most BBQ apps because it's a different category — those are recipe vaults. GrillPilot is an AI coaching service, and serving Claude isn't free. If you don't cook regularly, the free tier is probably right for you.
Eventually, yes — but iOS first. Android arrives once we have enough traction to justify a native port (we don't believe in compromised cross-platform builds for this kind of app).
Standard Apple subscription cancellation: Settings → [Your Name] → Subscriptions → GrillPilot → Cancel. You keep Pro until the end of your billing period. No retention pressure, no exit surveys.
Yes — that's the whole point of this page. Email scott@sbedwell.net with the subject "TestFlight beta" and I'll send you an invite. Limited spots until App Store launch.
Join the TestFlight beta. Help shape the product. Get Pro free during beta.