Comparison

Bake vs Baker's Friend

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

Baker's Friend

This app helps bakers manage recipes, scale batches, and calculate precise water temperatures for consistent results. It integrates pre-ferments and automates complex calculations, allowing bakers to focus on flavor and texture.

Highlights
  • Recipe management with weights and percentages
  • Batch scaling by weight, item count, or multiplier
  • Water temperature calculator for desired dough temperature
  • Pre-ferment integration with automatic yeast calculation
  • Step-by-step instructions
Features
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Bake with precision — anywhere, anytime. Baker’s Friend is the all-in-one baking app for professionals and passionate home bakers. Manage recipes, scale batches, calculate exact water temperatures, and integrate pre-ferments — all from your iPhone. Whether you’re making artisan sourdough, scaling up for production, or fine-tuning fermentation, Baker’s Friend takes the math out of baking so you can focus on flavor, texture, and consistency. Key Features • Recipe Management – Create, edit, and duplicate recipes with ingredient weights, baker’s percentages, and step-by-step instructions. Auto-fill ingredients from your most-used items. • Recipe Scaling – Scale by Total Dough Weight, Number of Items (e.g., 17 rolls @ 75g, 35 buns @ 125g, 9 loaves @ 650g), or by Multiplier (2x, 3x, etc.). Maintain perfect ratios every time. • Water Temperature Calculator – Hit your Desired Dough Temperature (DDT) with precision by factoring in friction, room temperature, and all ingredients over 20% baker’s percentage. • Pre-ferment Integration – Add poolish, biga, levain, or pâte fermentée with exact hydration, percentage, and fermentation time. Automatically calculate yeast amounts and timing for poolish and biga. Why Bakers Love It • Save time with instant, accurate calculations • Keep recipes organized and accessible anywhere • Improve consistency from small test batches to full production runs • Control dough temperature for predictable fermentation • Perfectly balance pre-ferments without manual math Baker’s Friend brings professional baking precision to your pocket. Whether you run a bakery or bake at home, it helps you deliver consistently great results — every time. Download Baker’s Friend today and bake with confidence.

Screenshots

Bake4 screens
Baker's Friend4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Baker's Friend at none against Bake's 2. Baker's Friend also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Bake's advantage is ratings volume (185 vs 3). 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. Baker's Friend asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Baker's Friend holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bake has 185 ratings behind it against 3, 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 100% of Baker's Friend's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Bake versus Baker's Friend: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBakeBaker's Friend
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (185 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings185 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.4
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco ContinoDan Levin

Customer experience

Bake

All ratings185 ratings
Positive88.1%
Neutral3.8%
Negative8.1%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative29.4%

Baker's Friend

All ratings3 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

Baker's Friend

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bake free?
Bake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Baker's Friend free?
Baker's Friend is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bake or Baker's Friend?
Baker's Friend is rated higher. Bake averages 4.5 out of 5 from 185 ratings, while Baker's Friend averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Bake or Baker's Friend have ads?
Neither Bake nor Baker's Friend shows ads.

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