Log the cut. Log the wood.
Remember what worked.
Pitstead is a digital pit book for low-and-slow barbecue. Track the cut, the rub, the wood, and the temperature curve for every cook — then let your best cooks become the plan for the next one.
Everything a pit book should do
Plan a Cook
Set the cut, weight, rub, wood, smoker, and target temps. Pick a serve time and Pitstead calculates when to light the smoker, working backward from cook time, rest time, and a setup buffer.
Log the Cook
Timestamped pit and internal-meat readings build a temperature curve as you go, with the stall — that mid-cook plateau every brisket hits — highlighted automatically.
Remember What Worked
Rate every finished cook, attach photos, and add notes. Browse rating trends, cuts, and woods over time so the next cook starts from what actually worked.
Repeat Your Best
Pull in a past top-rated cook's full plan — same cut, rub, wood, and target temps — ready to adjust instead of reconstructed from memory.
Run Sheets & Pit Reports
Generate a printable run sheet before a cook and a pit report after — temperature curve, timeline, rating, photos, and notes, ready to print or share.
Private by Design
Everything runs on your device. No account, no analytics, no ad trackers. The only optional sync goes to your own private iCloud — never to us.
Free to start
Get cooking
- Up to 5 cook logs and 5 custom recipes
- Full temperature charting with stall detection
- "Repeat my best" and reminders
- Full analytics dashboard
One-time purchase
- Unlimited cook logs and recipes
- Run sheet & pit report PDF export
- No subscription, ever — pay once
- Same privacy guarantees as the free tier
Pitstead logs what you did and what you measured, in your own numbers — it's a record, not a food-safety authority. It doesn't set safe minimum internal temperatures and isn't a substitute for USDA or local food-safety guidance.