Bake vs ChefScaler
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
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.
- Adjust ingredient quantities with one click
- Instantly view adjusted ingredient amounts
- Store recipes with photos and ratings
- Supports metric units
- Dark Mode support
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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
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Bake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. ChefScaler asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Bake | ChefScaler |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (183 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 183 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marco Contino | MENG KUONG LEI |
Customer experience
Bake
ChefScaler
In-app purchases
Bake
- Bake-u-lator Pro$0.991 Month
- Bake-u-lator Pro$9.99
ChefScaler
No in-app purchases









