Comparison

Bake vs Private Baking Recipe

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

Private Baking Recipe

Easily store and access your favorite recipes, whether they're from online sources or your own creations. This app helps you manage ingredient ratios and includes a built-in timer to assist with cooking steps.

Highlights
  • Store personal and online recipes
  • Manage ingredient ratios
  • Built-in cooking timer
  • Access recipes anytime
  • Timer runs in background
Features
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Can't find the copied recipes for the dim sum you often make? I have a snack that I want to make temporarily, but the ratio of ingredients in the recipe I found online is different from the usual recipe? Private recipes can solve your troubles. Add various recipes that you like and often make, so you can open the recipes to cook food at any time. Built-in timing function, after the preparation of materials and steps, you can directly time the time You don't need to leave the screen, and the timing will continue when you check the materials and steps. I hope you like it.

Screenshots

Bake4 screens
Private Baking Recipe3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bake at 4.5 against Private Baking Recipe's 4.0. Bake also leads on ratings volume (183 vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). Private Baking Recipe's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 71%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Private Baking Recipe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bake holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. 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. Written reviews complicate that: 71% of Bake's written reviews are positive against 100% of Private Baking Recipe's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bake ships an update every 2 weeks, Private Baking Recipe every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Bake versus Private Baking Recipe: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBakePrivate Baking Recipe
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (183 ratings) — better4.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings183 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco ContinoYing fang Tu

Customer experience

Bake

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

Private Baking Recipe

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 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
1 purchases

Private Baking Recipe

One-time1
  • Private Baking Recipes Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Bake free?
Bake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Private Baking Recipe free?
Private Baking Recipe is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bake or Private Baking Recipe?
Bake is rated higher. Bake averages 4.5 out of 5 from 183 ratings, while Private Baking Recipe averages 4.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Bake or Private Baking Recipe have ads?
Neither Bake nor Private Baking Recipe shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bake or Private Baking Recipe?
Bake ships an update every 2 weeks, and Private Baking Recipe every 5 weeks. Most recently, Bake was updated on October 16, 2026 and Private Baking Recipe on September 29, 2026.

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