Bread Boss vs Homebaker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bread Boss
This app simplifies bread making by handling the scientific calculations, allowing users to focus on creativity. It offers supplied recipes, conversion tools for existing recipes, and automated reminders for each step of the baking process.
- Supplied sourdough recipes
- Recipe conversion to baker's percentages
- Automatic scaling of recipes
- Reminder alarms for baking tasks
- Recipe sharing with other users
- Starter refresh calculator
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Making amazing and healthy bread is both an art and a science. Bread Boss takes care of the science, freeing your creative spirit and allowing you to spend your time doing what people do best: art! If you want more than a recipe book then Bread Boss is the tool for you. You can build novel recipes from working examples. You can convert your existing recipes and turn them into baker’s formulas (with percentages), allowing you to scale up or down your bread volume to suit your needs at any given time – no more calculations necessary – that’s Bread Boss’ job. New to bread making? Don’t worry as Bread Boss comes with a set of supplied recipes developed by a master baker. Your home oven could be baking one of our delicious sourdough breads, a Rustic White, Stoneground, Walnut and Cranberry (we call it Walberry), Spelt, Quinoa and Mixed Seed, Hungarian Light Rye, Dark Rye, Olive and Thyme and many more. New recipes are regularly being added to the list. Bread Boss creates alarms or notifications to remind you when each important task needs to be done, so you don’t need to worry or keep track of time. You can easily shift the alarms forward and back to align with your personal schedule. Once you’ve perfected your recipe, you can photograph the result to save with the recipe and share it with your fellow Bread Bosses. Bread Boss is the synthesis and culmination of experience in baking and software engineering. Two brothers from different fields working together to create an app that removes the guess work and tedium of traditional bread making, so that you the Bread Boss can express your creative passions for healthy, tasty and beautiful bread. Bread Boss is the indispensable tool for Bakers, Chefs, Baking Students, and Artisan Bread Makers. Quick Overview of Features ===================== * Supplied list of recipes * New recipes added regularly * Full and detailed help at http://www.sourdoughbreadrecipe.com.au/bread-boss-ios-help/ * Simple scaling of volume and units or by total flour available * Automatic generation of increase starter stage * Each recipe can have variations * Recipes can be defined in bakers percentages * Recipes can be converted from weights using the weights input method * Recipes are defined in terms of stages, each stage can have fermentation or process times to influence alarms * Production stages can be defined to group ingredients and specify how and when they are combined into the recipe * Recipes have reminder alarms to prompt you to perform the next task in the process * Alarms can be adjusted forward or back as a whole to easily shift schedules * Different recipes can have different alarm ringtones * Multiple photos can be saved with a recipe * Recipes can be shared with other Bread Boss users * Refresh starter calculator * Screen lock while viewing recipe * Notes and URL links can be set with recipe stages * Community of like minded Bread Bosses where you can ask advice, offer suggestions or show off your talents. * Support website where you can get information and help with all things sourdough bread, baking and Bread Boss related. Visit us at: http://sourdoughbreadrecipe.com.au or G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104678082173842999474 or FB: https://www.facebook.com/sourdoughbreadrecipe Join our facebook Bread Boss community/group to share recipes and experience with other Bread Bosses: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BreadBoss/ Oh, and by the way, it's Ad free.
Homebaker
This app helps home bakers track bread recipes and baking sessions. It allows users to create custom recipes, log detailed session notes with timings and photos, and manage sourdough starters. Push notifications remind users of important steps and feeding times.
- Create custom bread recipes
- Log detailed baking sessions with photos
- Automatic baker's percentage calculation
- Manage sourdough starter activity
- Step-by-step baking session tracking
- Push notification reminders
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Perfect your bread baking with Homebaker, the bread baking notes app for home bakers that want to keep track of their bread recipes and baking sessions. Whether you're just beginning your baking journey or you're a seasoned bread baker, Homebaker offers seamless tools to: - Perfect your recipes: Create your own bread baking recipes by adding your preferment, dough and non-dough ingredients, as well as detailed recipe steps. Homebaker automatically calculates baker's percentages and hydration. Use recipes as templates to pre-fill your baking sessions. You can also share your recipes with fellow bakers using a public link. - Log your baking sessions: Record every step of your baking sessions with detailed timings, descriptions, metadata (such as temperatures) and pictures. Review past sessions and refine your techniques for perfect results every time. - Step by step precision: Never forget to add salt again. Mark baking steps as done to keep track of where you are in a baking session. - Manage your sourdough starters: log your starter's activity and schedule feeding notifications - Get notified: Get notified with push notifications when step timers are completed in your baking session or when it's time to check on your sourdough starter. - Stay synced: With the Pro version (requires paid subscription) – access Homebaker from any device, including desktops, via our web app. A subscription to Homebaker Pro is optional and can be purchased in-app to unlock the following features: - Unlimited creation of recipes: In the free version of Homebaker the number of recipes you can create is limited. Upgrade to Pro to create as many recipes as you want, which also can be used as templates for your baking sessions - Access to the Homebaker web app: Your recipes and sessions get synced with your Homebaker account and can be accessed in the browser via the web app. This makes it easy to manage your baking notes on desktop devices. Subscriptions will be automatically renewed and charged on a monthly basis. You can cancel anytime in your iTunes account settings. You can find the Terms of Use (EULA) here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.homebaker.app/privacy Support: https://www.homebaker.app/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Homebaker at 100% against Bread Boss's 43%. Homebaker also leads on price (Free vs $5.99) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Bread Boss's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On device support 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
Homebaker is free to download; Bread Boss costs $5.99 up front. Homebaker sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Bread Boss asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bread Boss ships an update every 3 months, Homebaker fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bread Boss | Homebaker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (33 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #124 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 | 14.0.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Karen Benhar | SIMON RAYMOND SCHOEN |
Customer experience
Bread Boss
Homebaker
In-app purchases
Bread Boss
No in-app purchases
Homebaker
- Homebaker Pro$1.991 Month









