The Traeger app doesn't save your cook history. Here's what your options actually are.
You just finished a six-hour rib cook. The graph looked great — the stall, the push, the probes walking up to temp. Then the grill shut down, and the graph went with it. Open the Traeger app the next morning and there's no trace the cook ever happened.
If you searched something like "Traeger app doesn't save cook history," you're not missing a setting. The Traeger app is built for live monitoring: it shows the current cook while it's running, and it does not keep an archive afterward. Owners have been asking for cook history on the Traeger forums for years. It isn't there.
The frustrating part: your grill already produces the data
A WiFire-connected Traeger reports its state to Traeger's cloud constantly while it runs — grill temperature, set point, every paired wireless meat probe, auger and fan activity, even pellet hopper level. During an active cook that stream updates every few seconds. The data exists. The app just doesn't keep it.
Your options for keeping cook history
| Option | How it works | Cost | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| Notebook / OneNote / spreadsheet | You write down times and temps yourself | Free | Manual. You're the data logger, mid-cook, with rub on your hands. |
| BBQ journal apps (e.g. Smokin Log) | Structured manual entry on your phone | Free–$5 one-time | Still manual — nothing records the actual temperature curve. |
| FireBoard | Dedicated logging hardware + its own probes | $200+ up front | Excellent gear, but you're buying and placing separate hardware to re-measure what your grill already measures. |
| Smokelog | Connects to your Traeger account and records the WiFire stream automatically | $5/month | Traeger WiFire grills only. No hardware, nothing to remember. |
How Smokelog works
You connect your Traeger account once. From then on, every cook is captured in the cloud at 20-second resolution — ignition to cool-down — whether or not your phone is awake, and kept forever. Each cook gets a live dashboard you can put on a TV or share with a link, and a debrief when it ends: peak temps, whether each probe hit its target, pellet burn, the weather at your grill (wind matters more than most people think), and a notes field for what to do differently next time.
It's an independent product — not made or endorsed by Traeger — built by one person who wanted his own brisket data back. If you can see your grill live in the Traeger app, Smokelog can record it.
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