Comparison

Bake vs ChefScaler

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

ChefScaler

Easily scale ingredient quantities for your recipes based on the desired number of servings. Store your favorite recipes with details like photos and ratings, and access them anytime for quick adjustments. Supports standard metric units.

Highlights
  • Adjust ingredient quantities with one click
  • Instantly view adjusted ingredient amounts
  • Store recipes with photos and ratings
  • Supports metric units
  • Dark Mode support
Features
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ChefScaler helps you to adjust ingredients quantities in your recipes. With one click of a button, ChefScaler adjusts all your ingredients quantities in your favorite recipes, according to the number of servings you need. You only have to enter your recipe once into ChefScaler. Then you can bring up the recipe anytime you want, just change the number of servings, and instantly you get the adjusted ingredients' quantities for your recipe. Current major features: 1. One button clicks to change the number of serves in recipe 2. Instantly show all adjusted ingredients quantities in recipe 3. Store recipes with Photo, Rating, Easiness, etc. 4. Ingredient supports standard metric units (US units will be supported in future release) Other features 1. Dark Mode support 2. Optimized for iPhone 11 and SE2

Screenshots

Bake4 screens
ChefScaler4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bake at 4.5 against ChefScaler's 1.0. Bake also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 16 months) and ratings volume (183 vs 1). ChefScaler's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. ChefScaler asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bake holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.0. 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bake ships an update every 2 weeks, ChefScaler every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Bake versus ChefScaler: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBakeChefScaler
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (183 ratings) — better1.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings183 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 16 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco ContinoMENG KUONG LEI

Customer experience

Bake

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

ChefScaler

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bake

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

ChefScaler

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bake free?
Bake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ChefScaler free?
ChefScaler is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bake or ChefScaler?
Bake is rated higher. Bake averages 4.5 out of 5 from 183 ratings, while ChefScaler averages 1.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Bake or ChefScaler have ads?
Neither Bake nor ChefScaler shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bake or ChefScaler?
Bake ships an update every 2 weeks, and ChefScaler every 16 months. Most recently, Bake was updated on October 8, 2026 and ChefScaler on October 13, 2026.

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