Comparison

Bake vs Imperial Cook

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

About

Imperial Cook

Easily convert common US imperial cooking measurements to metric units. This simple tool eliminates the need for online searches, offering quick conversions for weight, volume, and temperature.

Highlights
  • Imperial to metric conversion
  • Weight conversion (cups, ounces, pounds)
  • Volume conversion (liquid ounces, cups, spoons)
  • Temperature conversion (Fahrenheit to Celsius)
  • Simple and easy to use interface
Features
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Conversion app designed for everyday cooking! Convert in a matter of few clicks most common (US) imperial measurements into their metric counterpart with Imperial Cook. Simple and easy to use - there's no need to open up google anymore! Imperial Cook will help you convert: Weight (cups, ounces, pounds) Volume (liquid ounces, cups, table/tea spoon) Temperature (Fahrenheit to celsius)

Screenshots

Bake4 screens
Imperial Cook3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Imperial Cook at 5.0 against Bake's 4.5. Imperial Cook also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Bake's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 31 months) and ratings volume (183 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Bake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Imperial Cook sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Imperial Cook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bake has 183 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Bake's written reviews are positive against 100% of Imperial Cook's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bake ships an update every 2 weeks, Imperial Cook every 31 months. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Bake versus Imperial Cook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBakeImperial Cook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (183 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings183 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 31 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco ContinoLaurenz Vorderwuelbecke

Customer experience

Bake

All ratings183 ratings
Positive88.0%
Neutral3.8%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative29.4%

Imperial Cook

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bake

Subscriptions1
  • Bake-u-lator Pro$0.991 Month
One-time1
  • Bake-u-lator Pro$9.99
4 purchases

Imperial Cook

One-time4
  • Donation of one beer$0.99
  • Donation of two beers$1.99
  • Donation of a six pack of beer$4.99
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  • Case of beer$13.99

Questions

Is Bake free?
Bake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Imperial Cook free?
Imperial Cook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bake or Imperial Cook?
Imperial Cook is rated higher. Bake averages 4.5 out of 5 from 183 ratings, while Imperial Cook averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Bake or Imperial Cook have ads?
Neither Bake nor Imperial Cook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bake or Imperial Cook?
Bake ships an update every 2 weeks, and Imperial Cook every 31 months. Most recently, Bake was updated on September 16, 2026 and Imperial Cook on June 2, 2026.

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