Comparison

Bake vs My Kitchen Calculator

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

My Kitchen Calculator

Easily scale recipes, convert ingredient units by weight or volume, and access cooking references. This tool supports fractional inputs and offers conversions for over 250 ingredients, plus basic calculators for volume, weight, length, time, energy, and temperature.

Highlights
  • Recipe scaling and portioning
  • Ingredient unit conversion (volume/weight)
  • Over 250 ingredient conversions
  • Basic conversion calculators (volume, weight, length, time, energy, temp)
  • Fractional input support
  • Gas Mark and cooking temperature references
  • Conversion history
Features
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The Kitchen Calculator app by MyKitchenCalculator.com is a tool that includes a recipe converter (recipe multiplier), cooking references, and several conversion calculators that help you easily convert between the most common measuring units used in cooking and baking. The recipe converter tool allows you to scale, multiply, divide, or portion your recipes to the serving size you desire. Easily convert recipes to your desired serving size by typing in (*or copying and pasting*) the ingredients from your favorite online food blogs or recipe sites. *Note: Due to the nature of text formatting, the copy and paste function may not work directly for some websites and certain mobile browsers. The ingredient unit converter tool allows you to convert by ingredient between volume and weight units, such as cups and grams. Choose from more than 250 of the most common ingredients, such as butter, eggs, flour, and sugar! The tool also includes basic conversion calculators for Volume, Weight, Length, Time, Energy and Temperature. For most conversions, you can directly type in fractions as an input value, such as "1 1/2" or "3/4". The tool also keeps a history of your past conversions. In addition to conversion calculators, the app has a Gas Mark reference and a cooking temperature references that allows you to quickly look up information about cooking temperatures for meat, candy, and other dishes. Take the power of recipe conversion with you by downloading this app. MyKitchenCalculator.com, recipe conversion made easier! Recipe Converter: Multiply, divide, or portion recipes with ease. This tool will take fraction inputs and output them to the nearest fraction also! Ingredient Unit Converter: Convert by ingredient between common volume and weight units for more than 250 ingredients! Includes sticks of butter conversion and conversion of medium, large, and x-large whole eggs! Volume Converter: Convert between units of teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, pints, quarts, gallons, fluid ounces, milliliters, liters. You can also convert between US and UK (imperial) units. There is also a conversion to "Cups and Spoons". This conversion will convert volume units to denominations of common measuring cups and spoons. For example, 1.75 cups = 1 cup + 3/4 cup. Weight Converter: Convert between units of grams, kilograms, ounces, and pounds. You can even convert to "Pounds and Ounces". Length Converter: Convert between units of millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers, inches, feet, yards and miles. You can even convert to "Feet and Inches". Time Converter Convert between seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and years. Energy Converter Convert between Joules, Kilojoules, Gram calories, and Food Calories (Kilocalories). Temperature Converter: Convert between units of Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin. Gas Mark Reference: View common gas mark settings in Fahrenheit or Celsius. Cooking Temperatures: Easily look up the USDA recommended cooking temperatures of most dishes such as meats, eggs, and casseroles. You can also look up candy cooking temperatures that tell you the stages of sugar at each temperature range. Easily share your conversions with others if your device has compatible share action apps such as certain email or text messaging apps. Notes: 1)Conversions are calculated approximations and may not be exact. 2)US volume conversions are NIST based rounded values. 3)Conversions by ingredients are based on USDA values and actual measured values. 4)Always check for proper conversions before using converted recipes. 5)This tool is based on rounded and simplified values and is not recommended for mathematical, engineering, or scientific calculations that need precision.

Screenshots

Bake4 screens
My Kitchen Calculator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bake at Free against My Kitchen Calculator's $1.99. Bake also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 7 months) and ratings volume (183 vs 9). My Kitchen Calculator's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (86% vs 71%). On 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; My Kitchen Calculator costs $1.99 up front. Bake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. My Kitchen Calculator asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

My Kitchen Calculator holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bake has 183 ratings behind it against 9, 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 86% of My Kitchen Calculator's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bake ships an update every 2 weeks, My Kitchen Calculator every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Bake versus My Kitchen Calculator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBakeMy Kitchen Calculator
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating4.5 (183 ratings)4.7 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings183 — better9
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#11 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB31 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco ContinoErnest Lee

Customer experience

Bake

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

My Kitchen Calculator

All ratings9 ratings
Positive88.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Bake

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

My Kitchen Calculator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bake free?
Bake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is My Kitchen Calculator free?
My Kitchen Calculator costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bake or My Kitchen Calculator?
My Kitchen Calculator is rated higher. Bake averages 4.5 out of 5 from 183 ratings, while My Kitchen Calculator averages 4.7 from 9 ratings.
Do Bake or My Kitchen Calculator have ads?
Neither Bake nor My Kitchen Calculator shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bake or My Kitchen Calculator?
Bake ships an update every 2 weeks, and My Kitchen Calculator every 7 months. Most recently, Bake was updated on September 16, 2026 and My Kitchen Calculator on September 24, 2026.

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