🏳️ We’re here with some great news: we will continue to support all versions of our products indefinitely.
Earlier this year, we announced plans to remove support for the original Anova Precision® Cookers from the Anova Culinary app starting in September 2025. After listening to your feedback, we’ve decided to cancel that plan and are committed to keeping all our cookers fully supported.
We understand the importance of reliability and longevity in Anova products. Many of the original cookers still in use today are more than 10 years old and run on a separate, older infrastructure. While that system is aging and requires ongoing maintenance, we believe the effort is worth it to support our OG customers who’ve been with us from the beginning.
While maintaining this infrastructure comes at a cost, it’s a challenge we’re ready to embrace because we value the trust you’ve placed in us. We’ll share more details in the coming months about how we’ll ensure this continued support, but rest assured—we’ve got your back.
To our loyal Anova community: thank you for your incredible support and feedback. Whether you’re using a newer cooker or one of our originals, you’re the reason we’re here, and we couldn’t be more grateful.
Wishing you a wonderful holiday season,
Team Anova
9 comments
I’m happy to see that the team has listened to the feedback and decided to continue supporting its long time customers. I’m personally grateful since the manual control knob is broken and I can only set the SV using the app.
I’m glad you decided to not stab your og customers in the back. Honestly though, if it’s unprofitable to pay your engineers to maintain the legacy code (I mean, I get it. It can really suck sometimes), you should just open source the protocols for the legacy products and post it on GitHub.
People will maintain the compatibility for free and it would probably give you a wave of positive headlines and pr. It could spawn into very creative diy projects and maybe you could even recruit some of that engineering talent onto your team some day.
While I was initially happy to hear of your (cough) continued support for the older app, the fact it does not work has eroded and eliminated any remaining confidence that I had in your company. Mine works, I’ve got to use a timer now instead of the app, as all repeated attempts and work around a failed. When this unit finally gives up I’ll be shopping elsewhere for the replacement
Thanks. It didn’t worry me too much that I couldn’t use the app because there are plenty of sou vide recipes out there and my machine is one of the very old ones so it was going to be supported for another year anyway. And besides Google home will set my time for me. BUT it did help me with my choice for my new chamber vacuum, decided on ANOVA, which I accepted delivery of two days ago. I’ve always vacuum bag sealed my relishes, chutneys and jams and it was always a messy task getting it just right with liquids. And once a stack of bags that I bought from a major store had pin holes on the edge so over time the jam oozed. Now with the chamber vacuum I won’t need to worry 😊
Thanks. It didn’t worry me too much that I couldn’t use the app because there are plenty of sou vide recipes out there and my machine is one of the very old ones so it was going to be supported for another year anyway. And besides Google home will set my time as for me. BUT it did help me with my choice for my new chamber vacuum, decided on ANOVA, which I accepted delivery of two days ago. I’ve always vacuum bag sealed my relishes, chutneys and jams and it was always a messy task getting it just right with liquids. And once a stack of bags that I bought from a major store had pin holes on the edge so over time the jam oozed. Now with the chamber vacuum I won’t need to worry 😊