Weber Connect

Just bought our first Weber pellet grill after a long life of cheap grills. This new technology is a game changer. I have always over/undercooked everything and have never felt confident enough to say I am a good cook. This app and grill just changed my mind. I have cooked three meals from the Weber connect app. I followed the clear and simple step by step instructions along with the temperature probes and timers in the app and it has been amazing. Stop being cheap ( like me) and just buy the grill that uses this app!!! You’ll thank yourself later.

The app started out pretty strong, but more recently I’ve seen lots of problems. 1) Connecting to the grill at all feels hit-or-miss. Half the time it works, the other half it doesn’t. There’s no clear rhyme or reason. 2) Even when it’s connected, the app doesn’t always give you the most current information on temperature or timers. Not sure how or why this happened but now you need to tap around to force the info to update. 3) The notifications and alerts went from being useful and descriptive to being something generic like “Weber App needs attention”. This is just terrible for the overall experience. Instead of being informed that the grill is at temperature or that the timer has been completed, there’s a moment of anxiety where the full range of potential problems is on the table because of this poor messaging. This app was good at one point. It can get back there, but it needs some love from Weber’s design and dev team. Update: Revised down to 2 stars. This most recent mid 2023 update is really bad. The app isn’t as clear or as useful as it was before and feels like it’s lost a lot of personality along the way. Please consider rolling back this most recent update. The previous version was a better foundation from which to iterate vs this one.

Update 6 May 2023: The big 2.0 update is here, and it totally transforms this device for me. A sleek new UI, data logging, graph view and more. Everything I was missing from the iGrill app seems to have made its way here. Thank you Weber! 🙏 Two suggestions for improvement; there are moments/areas where the font size and zoom seem incorrect or collide with items/borders in the interface. I’ve noticed it especially in the temperature readouts of the “now grilling” and “grills” dashboards when a temp range alert is set. Second, please add an Apple Watch app for Weber Connect. Even though connectivity was shaky in the iGrill Watch app, I still used it frequently as it improved my experience and level of convenience. Well done; please keep up the good work! ———————————————Happy to see this app moving in the right direction. Remote monitoring is great and seems very reliable, but I was disappointed seeing that so much of the basic functionality present in the iGrill app was missing here. Improving/adding native notifications and simple temp range/target temp were big (but obvious) steps. Wish I could adjust the temperature range function without having to delete the current and enter a new one (maybe this is just me?). Also hoping that data logging and more make it into the upcoming “big update.” Thought I might have put my hub away for good a few months ago in favor of my trusty iGrill. Glad to see I can use it again, and hopefully it continues to get better!