App
ChillCheck
Temperature and cooling logs for restaurant kitchens.
The first thing a health inspector asks for is your temperature log. ChillCheck puts it on the phone that is already in the kitchen: reminders at the times you set, a number pad and nothing else, and a monthly PDF you can hand over.
- Platforms
- iOS and Android
- Made for
- Cafés, single-location restaurants, and small caterers.
- Languages
- English
- Available in
- United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
- Free trial
- 7 days, full features
- Subscription
- Monthly, billed every month · Annual, billed every year
- Offline
- Every feature works in airplane mode. Walk-ins have no signal.
- No account
- No sign-up, no email, no password. Records stay on the phone.
- Monthly PDF
- One printable report per month, ready to hand to an inspector.
Features
What it does
Everything here is in the shipping app. Nothing on this page describes something that is planned.
Reminders you will actually answer
Set the times each unit gets checked — open, midday, close — and the phone asks at those times. Never more than a few a day, because a notification that gets ignored is worse than none.
One tap to the number pad
The notification opens straight onto the keypad for that unit. No menus, no searching for the right fridge. Type the number and you are done.
Out of range, and what you did about it
When a reading falls outside the range you set for that unit, ChillCheck asks what you did — discarded, moved, adjusted the thermostat — with room for a note and a photo.
Two-stage cooling timer
Start a batch and ChillCheck works out the deadline for each stage and reminds you before it passes.
Fill in the day you missed
Nobody records perfectly. Go back and complete an earlier day — the entry is marked as entered late, honestly, because a log nobody can trust is not worth keeping.
A PDF for the inspector
Export any month as a printable report: every unit, every scheduled check, and the exceptions with their corrective actions.
The log
What the monthly log looks like
Export a month and ChillCheck lays it out as a temperature and cooling log on letter paper — the same columns a printed template asks for, filled in with what was actually recorded, at the times it was recorded.
- Cover
- The month at a glance: scheduled checks, how many were recorded, how many fell out of range, how many were entered late, and how many batches were cooled.
- Units
- The list of every cooler, freezer and hot-holding unit you set up, with its use and the target range you gave it.
- Daily grid
- A page for each unit you recorded against: a row per day of the month, a column per scheduled time, and any spot checks alongside.
- Exceptions
- Any reading that fell outside its range, with the target it missed, the corrective action taken, your note, and whether a photo was taken.
- Cooling log
- Each batch by item and start time, then both stage checks — 70°F within 2 hours, 41°F within 6 — against the deadlines counted from that start.
Readings print in °F or °C, whichever you set. The ranges offered when you add a unit are common defaults, not legal requirements — set the values your health department expects.
Privacy
Your records stay on the phone
There is no account, no sign-up and no password. ChillCheck needs no network at all — which is the point, because walk-ins and back kitchens rarely have a signal.
Stays on the device
- Temperature readings, the time each was recorded, and whether it was entered late
- The units you set up, their target ranges, and their check schedules
- Corrective actions, your notes, and any photos you attach
- Cooling logs
- Your settings, including temperature unit and reminder times
Leaves the device
- Your purchase receipt, an anonymous app identifier, and basic device information — to RevenueCat, our subscription provider
- The purchase itself — to Apple or Google, depending on where you bought it
The identifier used for your subscription is generated at random. It is not your name, your email or your phone number, and there is no account it could be matched against.
Questions
Before you ask
The rest of the questions, how to cancel, and how to reach a person are on the support page.
- We use a paper cooling log template. Can ChillCheck replace it?
- That is what it is for. The cooling log in the monthly PDF has the columns a printed template asks for — the item, the start time and temperature, both stage checks against their deadlines, and a note — except the times are stamped as they happen instead of being filled in at the end of the shift. Print the month if your inspector wants paper.
- Which units can I log?
- Coolers, freezers, hot holding, and anything else you care to name. Each unit gets its own target range and its own check times. ChillCheck offers a starting range for each kind, but those are common defaults, not legal requirements — set the values your health department expects.
- Does it work without a signal?
- Yes. Walk-ins and back kitchens have terrible reception, so ChillCheck never needs the network. Recording, reminders, the cooling timer and PDF export all work in airplane mode, and your subscription stays unlocked offline.
Notice
What this is not
ChillCheck is a record-keeping tool. It does not determine whether food is safe to serve, and it does not certify compliance with any regulation. Always follow your local health department's requirements.