Recipe Timer by Zafapp vs Bake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Recipe Timer by Zafapp
This app helps you cook perfectly with a variety of meal timers, a kitchen calculator for unit conversions, and a specialized roast timer for different meats and cooking styles. You can also create custom timers and track your cooking history.
- Timers for various meals
- Kitchen unit converter
- Customizable roast timer
- Create custom recipe timers
- Cooking history tracking
- Celsius/Fahrenheit and kg/lb conversion
- Dark and Light mode
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RECIPE TIMER • Browse through timers for different meals from eggs, pasta, vegetables to fish, steaks, pizza and dessert. KITCHEN CALCULATOR • Convert volume, weight or temperature units with easy-to-use interface. ROAST TIMER • Take advantage of Roast Timer’s customized settings. • Choose meat between beef, lamb, pork, chicken, duck or turkey; select your cut; finish it by setting your cooking style. CREATE RECIPE TIMERS • Adjust the recipe timer to your needs or create your own recipe timer. COOKING HISTORY • See your cooking history for the week, month or the year. CUSTOMIZE • Choose between Celsius and Fahrenheit • Use either kg or lb/oz for fine adjustment • Choose your oven type DARK & LIGHT MODE • Experience the app either in Dark Mode or Light Mode, all at one click!
Bake
This app simplifies baking by allowing you to scale recipes, adapt to missing ingredients, and convert units. It also offers nutrition estimation and custom timers to help you achieve perfect results.
- Scale recipes up or down
- Adapt to missing ingredients
- Convert units (volume, mass, temp)
- Estimate nutrition and calories
- Create and manage recipes
- Set custom baking timers
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Bake-u-lator is your all-in-one baking calculator, recipe adjuster, and kitchen toolkit. Quickly scale recipes up or down, adapt to missing ingredients, convert units with ease, and keep track of your bake times—all in one simple app. Limiting Ingredient Calculator - Out of flour? Low on eggs? Enter what you do have, and Bake-u-lator automatically recalculates the recipe using proportional amounts of each ingredient. Yield Calculator - Need 14 cupcakes instead of 10? Want to halve a recipe? Instantly scale any recipe to match your desired yield. Nutrition Calculator - Estimate the calories and macronutrients in your baked goods using ingredient-level nutrition breakdowns. Unit Converters - Effortlessly convert volume, mass, and temperature values to keep every measurement accurate. Recipes - Create recipes by manually entering ingredients, scanning recipes with your camera, or importing photos. Custom Timers - Create and run multiple baking timers to stay on track from prep to finish. Whether you’re adjusting recipes on the fly or planning your next bake with precision, Bake-u-lator helps you get it just right. Happy baking! The app and all in-app purchases and subscriptions are licensed under the standard Apple terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Bake at none against Recipe Timer by Zafapp's shown. Bake also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (185 vs 7). Recipe Timer by Zafapp's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 71%) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, 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. Recipe Timer by Zafapp sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Bake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Recipe Timer by Zafapp against 4.5 for Bake. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bake has 185 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 80% of Recipe Timer by Zafapp's written reviews are positive against 71% of Bake's.
Recipe Timer by Zafapp ships an update every 3 months, Bake every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Recipe Timer by Zafapp | Bake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) | 4.5 (185 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 70.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 185 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cuneyt Zafer | Marco Contino |
Customer experience
Recipe Timer by Zafapp
Bake
In-app purchases
Recipe Timer by Zafapp
- Unlock Premium Version$2.99
- Unlimited Custom Timers$3.99
- Remove All Advertisements$3.99
Bake
- Bake-u-lator Pro$0.991 Month
- Bake-u-lator Pro$9.99
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