Bread Baker vs Bread Diary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bread Baker
This app guides you through the bread-making process with step-by-step instructions and notifications. It includes popular recipes, allows you to add your own, and recalculates ingredients based on desired weight. Enjoy visual progress tracking and share your creations.
- Step-by-step baking process control
- Push notifications for process completion
- Visual progress presentation
- Ingredient recalculation by target weight
- Custom recipe creation and import
- Metric and imperial unit support
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Bread baking process long and tricky! With Bread Baker app you will control the dough preparation and baking step-by-step. You receive notifications once each step is complete. Process can be visually controlled and adjusted. As a bonus we include several popular bread recipes. You can also add your own recipes with ingredients and step-by-step process. Changing target weight will recalculate amount of ingredients required. Recipes can be shared via messages and iCloud. Feature list: * List of popular bread recipes, including ingredients and processes * All recipes are localized to English (default) and some native languages (multiple languages supported) * Ability to re-calculate required ingredients based on target bread weight * Support for metric (kg/g) and imperial (lb/oz) weights and temperatures * Visual presentation of process progress * Gantt chart to visually change the process that is running * Push notifications when step or whole process is complete * Ability to add your own recipes, their ingredients and step-by-step process * Share your recipes via standard iOS means (email, message, social) or via iCloud Terms of Use While you may use Bread Baker application for free as recipe storage, you will need to purchase a subscription to use process and notification features. Please pick one of available subscriptions in the In-App Store to control baking process and receive completion notifications. Having active subscription will also hide in-app advertisements. There are two types of auto-renewable subscriptions: monthly (length is 1 month) and annual (length is 12 months). Price for each subscription type is shown in the In-App store page as well as on Apple App Store. Payment for a subscription will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Privacy Policy can be obtained from our website at https://oxigenator.com/products/breadbaker/privacy-policy/ Link to Terms of Use: https://oxigenator.com/products/breadbaker/terms-of-use/ NOTE: When you purchase a subscription first time - you will be billed only after 7 first free trial days. If you cancel your first monthly subscription during these first trial days - you will NOT be charged at all.
Bread Diary
This app helps bread enthusiasts manage their recipes and streamline the baking process. It allows users to search ingredients, create and save custom recipes, and automatically calculate baker's percentages. Users can also adjust ingredient quantities for different pan sizes and record their bakes with ratings.
- Recipe management
- Ingredient search
- Baker's percentage calculation
- Quantity adjustment for pan sizes
- Bake recording and rating
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“Bread Diary” is a baking journal made for bread lovers. Manage your bread recipes and simplify the tedious prep process of calculating ingredient ratios every time. - Search ingredients and create & save recipes - Calculate baker’s percentages based on flour weight - Adjust ingredient quantities when changing pan sizes - Record your bakes and leave ratings ■ BakingClub subscription - Subscription: BakingClub (auto-renewing, 1 month) - Benefits: unlimited recipe imports and ad-free importing - Price: shown on the subscription screen in the app and on the App Store purchase sheet. - Your subscription renews automatically and your App Store account is charged the same amount unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://bread-diary.karrot42.com/en/terms Privacy Policy: https://bread-diary.karrot42.com/en/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bread Diary at 5.0 against Bread Baker's 3.5. Bread Diary also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 6 weeks) and review sentiment (60% vs 43%). Bread Baker's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Bread Baker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Bread Diary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bread Diary holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bread Baker has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Bread Baker's written reviews are positive against 60% of Bread Diary's.
Bread Baker ships an update every 6 weeks, Bread Diary every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bread Baker | Bread Diary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.7 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 90 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | OXiGENATOR LLC | sanguk park |
Customer experience
Bread Baker
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In-app purchases
Bread Baker
- Bake feature, 1 month7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Bake feature, 1 year7 Days trial$24.991 Year
Bread Diary
- Baking Club 1month$3.991 Month
- Baking Club 1year$39.991 Year









