BBQ Notebook

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About this app

BBQ Notebook is a cook log for people who actually care about BBQ.

Every smoke is its own story. The rub you tried, the wood blend, the temps that stuck and the temps that drifted, the weather that morning. Without notes you forget half of it by the next weekend.

I built BBQ Notebook because I was tired of writing things down on shop towels and losing them by Tuesday.

WHAT YOU CAN TRACK ON EACH COOK
• Meat, cut, weight
• Rub and sauce (save them once, reuse across cooks)
• Wood blend
• Smoker type and fuel source
• Cook temp, wrap method, finish temp, rest time
• Weather, auto-filled from your nearest NWS observation station
• Photos of the cook from start to finish
• Outcome notes — what worked, what to try next time

REUSE WHAT WORKS
Save your rubs and sauces as recipes. Once you've saved a brisket rub, you can apply it to any future cook with one tap. No more re-typing eight ingredients every time the smoker comes out.

SHARE WITH PEOPLE YOU ACTUALLY COOK WITH
Friend codes are private. No public feed, no random users. You exchange a 6-character code with someone you trust, both sides accept, and from then on you can compare cooks and trade recipes. That's it.

BUILT BY A BBQ FAMILY FROM KANSAS CITY
Born and raised in the greater Kansas City area, so BBQ was never a hobby I picked up. It was just how we ate. When we got our first smoker a few years back, it was mine. Nobody else was touching it.

As a United Methodist pastor in seminary, some of the best conversations I've had about God and about life happened around either a meat smoker or a table with smoked meat. I don't believe that's an accident.

WHAT'S NOT IN BBQ NOTEBOOK
• No ads
• No subscriptions — it's free
• No public feeds or random user content
• No selling your data — Firebase handles auth and storage, that's it
• No promoted recipes or sponsored anything

LOOKING TO SCORE RESTAURANTS INSTEAD OF LOGGING YOUR OWN COOKS?
Check out the companion app BBQ Scorecard — same Holy Smokes BBQ Co family, same accounts, same friends, different focus.

Faith, family, and fire.
Log every BBQ cook. Save rubs. Remember every smoke.
Updated on
Jul 27, 2026

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
  • No data shared with third parties
    Learn more about how developers declare sharing
  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, Photos and videos and 3 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted

What’s new

v2.2.0 — BBQ Meat Calculator + polish

• New BBQ Meat Calculator: pick meats, set counts, get raw weight, cook time, and how many cuts to buy
• About screen with links to Scorecard and Board
• In-app Privacy Policy and Changelog links
• Targets Android 16 (API 36) per Google Play requirement
• Analytics attribution restored on Android 13+
• Fresh privacy page wording

Cook Timer, Playbook, and auto-weather features slip to a later release.