Comparison

Bake vs Love, Manuela

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

Love, Manuela

Access over 470 home-baked recipes with step-by-step photos and clear instructions. Discover a wide variety of cakes, fillings, cookies, and more, all designed for delicious results. This app offers a growing digital cookbook with easy navigation and helpful features for bakers of all levels.

Highlights
  • Over 470 baking recipes
  • Step-by-step photo instructions
  • Easy recipe categories
  • Improved search and filtering
  • New Cake Mode to keep screen awake
  • Personalizable recipe notes
Features
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Love, Manuela is a baking app created by Norwegian baker Manuela Kjeilen, known as @passionforbaking. For more than a decade, Manuela has shared her love of baking with people around the world. She has published nine baking books, hosted her own baking show on TV in Sweden, and inspires more than 1.6 million followers on Instagram with her cakes, recipes, and beautiful baking ideas. Inside the Love, Manuela app, you get instant access to more than 470 baking recipes, all written in English, with high-quality step-by-step photos for every recipe from beginning to end. One-time purchase. No subscription. New recipes are included when they are added. For Manuela, taste always comes first. Beautiful cakes are lovely, but the most important thing is that every bite tastes delicious. Her recipes are created to let the flavors shine, with soft textures, creamy fillings, balanced sweetness, and desserts that taste just as good as they look. From everyday treats to celebration cakes, the recipes are made for home baking. Inside the app, you will find sponge cakes in many variations, ganaches in delicious flavors like strawberry, latte, and banana milkshake, lots of Scandinavian-style cakes, light fillings, cheesecakes, ice creams, sweet dough, frostings, cookies, cupcakes, and so much more. The app is made to feel like a growing digital baking book that you can return to again and again. It is easy to navigate, with clear recipe categories, improved search and filtering, and helpful tags so you can quickly find what you are looking for. A few more categories have also been added to make browsing even easier. Each recipe opens with a large photo and a short introduction, followed by clear directions, recipe notes, a place where you can write your own notes, and step-by-step photos that guide you through the recipe. Whether you are baking a cake, preparing a filling, whipping a frosting, or making cookies, the app is designed to help you feel confident in every step. New Cake Mode helps keep your screen awake while you read and follow a recipe, so you do not have to keep touching your phone or tablet while your hands are busy baking. The app has also been refined with improved UI, a smoother overall user experience, and an improved password reset flow. Love, Manuela is not a subscription. It is a one-time purchase of $12.99, converted to your local currency by the App Store or Google Play. You get access to all recipes inside the app instantly, and when new recipes are added in the future, they are included at no extra cost. Your purchase is connected to the store account you buy it with, either App Store or Google Play. You can restore your purchase anytime using the same store account. What you get inside the app: More than 470 baking recipes Recipes written in English only Clear and easy-to-follow instructions High-quality step-by-step photos for every recipe Easy recipe categories Improved search and filtering Helpful tags to find recipes faster A place to write your own notes inside each recipe Recipe notes and tips from Manuela Cake Mode to keep your screen awake while baking Access to new recipes when they are added One-time purchase on this platform No subscription This is not a baking video app. The Love, Manuela app is focused on written recipes, high-quality photos, clear directions, recipe notes, and step-by-step pictures for every recipe. It is created for bakers who love to read, follow, save, and return to recipes whenever they want. The Love, Manuela app has more than 75,000 registered users worldwide, and Manuela’s recipes are loved by home bakers, cake lovers, professional bakers, and bakeries around the world. If you love soft cakes, sponge cakes, ganache, creamy frostings, light fillings, cupcakes, cookies, Scandinavian-style baking, sweet dough, cheesecakes, ice creams, and homemade desserts that taste as good as they look, you are going to love the Love, Manuela app. Happy baking! XO, Love, Manuela

Screenshots

Bake4 screens
Love, Manuela4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bake at Free against Love, Manuela's $12.99. Bake also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months) and rating (4.5 vs 4.3). Love, Manuela's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#3 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ratings volume, ads 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

Bake is free to download; Love, Manuela costs $12.99 up front. Bake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Love, Manuela asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bake holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 183 and 170 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Bake's written reviews are positive against 68% of Love, Manuela's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bake ships an update every 2 weeks, Love, Manuela every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Bake versus Love, Manuela: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBakeLove, Manuela
PriceFree — better$12.99
Rating4.5 (183 ratings) — better4.3 (170 ratings)
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews — better68.2% of reviews
Number of ratings183 — better170
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#3 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB29 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco ContinoPassion For Baking AS

Customer experience

Bake

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

Love, Manuela

All ratings170 ratings
Positive80.6%
Neutral4.1%
Negative15.3%
Written reviews179 reviews
Positive68.2%
Neutral9.5%
Negative22.3%

Bugs and requests

Bake

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Love, Manuela

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • App crashes or fails to open for some users
  • Inconsistent recipe display across devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • Step-by-step video tutorials
  • Option to save and organize personal notes
  • Ability to print or export recipes

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bake

Subscriptions1
  • Bake-u-lator Pro$0.991 Month
One-time1
  • Bake-u-lator Pro$9.99
None

Love, Manuela

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bake free?
Bake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Love, Manuela free?
Love, Manuela costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bake or Love, Manuela?
Bake is rated higher. Bake averages 4.5 out of 5 from 183 ratings, while Love, Manuela averages 4.3 from 170 ratings.
Do Bake or Love, Manuela have ads?
Neither Bake nor Love, Manuela shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bake or Love, Manuela?
Bake ships an update every 2 weeks, and Love, Manuela every 5 months. Most recently, Bake was updated on October 16, 2026 and Love, Manuela on October 19, 2026.

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