Comparison

Fabbri MC vs IceForm Pro

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Fabbri MC

Features
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Fabbri MC Γ¨ la nuova app di Fabbri 1905 creata per aiutare l’artigiano del gelato con produzione propria a realizzare una perfetta bilanciatura e a rendere le sue ricette uniche nel gusto e negli abbinamenti.

About

IceForm Pro

This professional tool helps create, balance, and perfect recipes for ice cream, gelato, and ganache. It provides precise mathematical control over ingredients, texture, flavor, and cost, with detailed insights and visualization tools.

Highlights
  • Automatic recipe balancing
  • Ganache mode with specific metrics
  • Balance Radar visual assessment
  • Freezing curve visualization
  • Ingredient lock and precise rescaling
  • 300+ curated ingredient database
  • Cost and nutrition insights
  • US/EU nutrition label generator
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We have been making ice cream since 2015, and we still are. IceForm Pro is where we balance our own mixes, and where a recipe becomes a tech card, a label, a batch on the floor and a price you can defend. Before it we worked in spreadsheets, then in calculators that were always missing something. Once that cost us a whole batch. Every mistake we made since has left a limit or a warning somewhere in this app. BALANCING A recipe is a balance of fat, sugars, solids, water, sweetness and freezing behaviour. Change an amount and every indicator moves with it. When a batch will not come into range, one button works out the amounts that will, respecting what you lock and the limits you set. - The adaptive IceForm profile: MSNF, Sugars and Total Solids ranges follow the fat level you set, while POD and PAC balance independently. Every limit is yours to change. - 32 built-in profiles for specific product categories. Duplicate one or build your own. GANACHE A recipe type of its own: Aw, Brix, SFC at 20 and 28, pH, caramelisation and melting points, plastic range, shelf life, consistency, fatty-acid profile and cocoa components. WHAT YOU SEE Balance Radar, PAC and POD, MSNF, Hardening Factor, frozen water, overrun, Coldness Perception, a scoopability gauge and a freezing curve in Celsius or Fahrenheit. Evaporation and overrun simulation shows what they do to every number. INGREDIENTS 340+ curated ingredients, import from USDA FoodData Central by name or barcode, or your own through a guided composition editor. Cost and nutrition per 100 g and per serving, and a finished recipe can become an ingredient in another. THE DAY ON THE FLOOR Today opens on what is happening: what is in progress, what to make, what is in the way. A batch runs as a shift with timers and readings, and survives quitting. A recipe becomes products: pints, pans, cups, bars, each with its own pack, yield and price. Every finished lot carries the cost it was made at, and a lot that has to come off sale is followed to the tub and the slot it stands in. WHAT IT COSTS AND EARNS Three rungs, and the app works out which one your figures reach instead of letting you declare it: ingredients, plus overheads by the kilogram, plus hands and machine hours. A batch freezes its cost in layers the day it is made, so November's cream cannot rewrite October. Cost per litre, kilogram, scoop and piece on the real denominators. Price and margin by channel with the commission taken off first, break-even in portions a day, and the assortment split into stars, workhorses, puzzles and ballast. Eight reports, exported as a real spreadsheet. THE ASSISTANT Ask in plain words, in any language. It works your recipe through the tools you use, and the app does the calculating. It can draft a recipe, rebalance one you have, or fill an ingredient's composition from a name or a photo of its label. Bring your own provider: Apple Intelligence on device, Gemini, Claude or ChatGPT. Every change is yours to keep or undo. iPhone, iPad and Mac, with iCloud sync. SUBSCRIPTION Balancing is free. Without a subscription you get the sample recipe, fully editable, the full read-out on anything you build, and one recipe and three ingredients of your own. Pro adds the working tool: the ingredient library, USDA and barcode import, import and export, tech cards, the calculators and the assistant. Pro+ adds the business: stock and orders, production and finished goods, costing, prices and margins. If a subscription lapses, your recipes and ingredients stay readable in full; you just cannot edit or add. The Pro+ sections close with their data intact. PRIVACY Your recipes are yours. They stay on your device and, if you choose, in your own iCloud. We never see them and train nothing on them. If you connect a cloud assistant, your request goes to the provider you chose, under their terms. Terms of Use: https://iceform.pro/terms-and-service Privacy Policy: https://iceform.pro/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Fabbri MC3 screens
IceForm Pro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fabbri MC at none against IceForm Pro's 2. Fabbri MC also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). IceForm Pro's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. IceForm Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Fabbri MC asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fabbri MC ships an update every 3 months, IceForm Pro fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 5 level
Fabbri MC versus IceForm Pro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFabbri MCIceForm Pro
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsβ€”0.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
Monetizationβ€”Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS11.0 β€” better18.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size7 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFabbri 1905Maksim Vnukov

In-app purchases

None

Fabbri MC

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

IceForm Pro

Subscriptions2
  • IceForm Pro Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • IceForm Pro Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year

Questions

Is Fabbri MC free?
Fabbri MC is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is IceForm Pro free?
IceForm Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fabbri MC or IceForm Pro have ads?
Neither Fabbri MC nor IceForm Pro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fabbri MC or IceForm Pro?
Fabbri MC ships an update every 3 months, and IceForm Pro fortnightly. Most recently, Fabbri MC was updated on October 7, 2026 and IceForm Pro on October 13, 2026.

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