Comparison

Bake vs Bash Baking

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

Bash Baking

Organize your recipes, generate instant grocery lists, and plan baking sessions effortlessly. This assistant helps manage your favorite recipes and makes baking stress-free for any occasion.

Highlights
  • Organize recipes for baking sessions
  • Generate instant grocery lists
  • Build and store recipe collection
  • Upload and store recipes
  • Search recipes by ingredients or type
Features
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Bake smarter, plan better, and enjoy every step of the process with Bash! Bash is your ultimate baking companion—helping you organize recipes, generate instant grocery lists, and make every baking session effortless. Whether you're preparing for a school bake sale, a birthday surprise, or just a weekend treat, Bash keeps your baking organized and stress-free. Why you'll love Bash: Plan your perfect bake – Create bashes to organize recipes for any baking session. Instant grocery lists – Add recipes to a bash and automatically generate a shopping list. Build your recipe collection – Save and organize your favorite recipes all in one place. Upload & store recipes – Snap a picture or add written recipes to keep them handy. Find what you need fast – Search your collection by ingredients, occasion, or type of bake. A bash is more than just a baking session—it’s a way to keep track of your best creations, plan ahead, and ensure you never forget an ingredient. Whether you're an experienced baker or just getting started, Bash makes baking fun, simple, and perfectly organized. Ready to bake without the hassle?

Screenshots

Bake4 screens
Bash Baking4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bash Baking at none against Bake's 2. Bash Baking also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Bake's advantage is ratings volume (184 vs 2). On price, rating, 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

Both are free to download. Bake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Bash Baking asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Bake against 4.5 for Bash Baking. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bake has 184 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 71% of Bake's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bash Baking's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Bake versus Bash Baking: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBakeBash Baking
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (184 ratings)4.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings184 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco ContinoJody Oakley

Customer experience

Bake

All ratings184 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral3.3%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative29.4%

Bash Baking

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
None

Bash Baking

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bake free?
Bake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bash Baking free?
Bash Baking is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bake or Bash Baking?
Bake and Bash Baking are both rated 4.5 out of 5 on the App Store, from 184 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Bake or Bash Baking have ads?
Neither Bake nor Bash Baking shows ads.

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