Reviews for Pit Boss Grills

I’ve done maybe a dozen cooks on my PB 1150. Now every time it thanks me for completing my first cook. I have several ‘cooks’ where all I was doing was clearing the feeder. it would be nice if there were a way to delete unwanted cooks. also I’ve had several cooks either duplicate or […]

the app fails to give any notifications on when anything reaches temperature. any saved history on cooks, doesn’t have a graph of the temperature reading saved, so all the information is useless. unfortunately this is probably going to lead me to go to a Traeger that has a better technological function. though I do love […]

I really like the app and being able to control my smoker from inside my house. only thing I wish to see in this app in the future is a little bit more details in the cooking analytics area of the app so that I can take notes when I’m smoking a brisket of when […]

Update-Its a year later and the app still sucks. 🤷🏽‍♀️ The smoker is decent. The app is awful. It is constantly doing updates that prevent you from using the app. The updates always seem to be required after you have already started cooking. After my most recent update the app opens, but doesn’t allow me […]

I didn’t have any initial connection problems following the recommended settings exactly. I applaud the security others complained about- intelligent appliances are a usually brainless way into someone’s private network. Everything came up and i was able to set a cook timer. I was hopeful the other complaints weren’t going to apply. At that point, […]

I’ll be cooking something and I’ll go to another app on my phone, make a phone call or even put my phone down and I’ll come back later and it has to reconnect to the grill and then the temp defaults to 180f. I’ve reinstalled and tried keeping the app open ( not ideal as […]

They broke the app. Won’t even open for me. Would have been better off just deferring the app off to the generic one like they used to instead of trying to brand their own. At least that one opened.. Edit: They’ve come a long way with this app (thankfully). It’s very usable. Requires some strange […]

Absolute Garbage. I’ve tried using the app for the first time after using the smoker on its own for several months with just the control panel. I’ve been very happy with the smoker and gotten the feel for it now, I figured it was time to do a longer more complex smoke, which the app […]

Doesn’t work anymore. Used to be able to connect and controll the grill but once we connect it never updates any values on the phone, nor on the grill. doesn’t seem to work over WiFi at all and constantly says it can’t connect. I see it on the DCHP clients on my router and can […]

This app is pretty trash. It’s clunky, the layout is a mess, and it randomly closes when I have it running in the background so when I open it up, it has to replay the boot animation and reconnect to the grill. The only useful thing it does is allow you to control the temperature […]

I’m editing my review to reflect an even lower score. The smoker errors out after about two hours of use. The smoke flavor seemed to be richer on my old propane based smoker. The bluetooth app still does not work after several app updates. I was looking forward to monitoring my turkey temperature through the […]

I really wish this was just for controlling the grill and not clutter with a bunch of other stuff. the connection reliability is very poor, considering it’s a Wi-Fi connected device, so you would expect the app to connect back to the grill without saying “connection lost.” Once you actually get into the grill controls, […]

Like the app but needs a few improvements. Cooking analytics should be about to show temp and times by touching on that point. also shouldn’t use start up time as part of cooking time. other issue and it may be type of phone I have. Samsung Fold6 won’t let app transition from phone closed (small […]

Heard alot of issues with this app over the first one PB had. wifi is only as good as what you pay for and pending what kind, I have fiber wifi and was able to setup and connect to my grill to my wifi before it was primed with pellets. App use of app is […]

Very feature poor. They could do so much more with the app but Pit Boss doesn’t seem to care about its customers. And that’s the worst part. They could include some extremely easy to add features like low and high temperature alerts for the smoker and the meat probe, but they won’t do it. Simple […]

decent with a few issues. first off you only have about half of the temperature settings on the app that are available on the grill itself. The app only has increments of 50⁰ leaving much to be desired while the grill has increments of 10⁰. Also heaven forbid you try to hook to a Bluetooth […]

Originally I gave it a 1 ⭐️ rating due to its inability to connect to the grill. After disconnecting and reconnecting to the wifi it has been working great ever since. Cons – I don’t like the”Price is Right” style wheel to select times and temps. Its too slow. Typing the time would be better. […]

Grill works great, the app is another story. Starts off fine, then it drops and all I get is the dancing flame and the word loading. after a half hour or more it will start working again and then drop and the cycle keeps repeating. I have used the grill a handful of times and […]

Smoker works great, but app leaves much to be desired. I lose connection many times while smoking, and sometimes the app just crashes and won’t open. setting things like the temperature on your probes is pointless because it erases as soon as you minimize the app. It also has very limited functions like grill temp, […]

When, it works, it does what it’s supposed to do. The problem is that it doesn’t work about half the time. For some reason it can’t hold a sign in more than two hours, so you regularly have to log in multiple times through a cook. It also does not always do a great job […]