Bake vs Microbakery Pro
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
Microbakery Pro
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Microbakery Pro helps small bakeries manage the work behind every bake day. Track customer orders, recipe batches, production needs, ingredient totals, supply levels, pricing, and payment status in one focused app. Built for cottage bakers, sourdough sellers, market bakers, and small bakery operators who need a practical way to plan what to make and what it will cost. Features include: Order tracking for pickups, wholesale accounts, markets, and custom requests Bake planning based on real orders and pickup windows Total dough and ingredient needs across selected orders Recipe costing with supply prices and labor estimates Inventory tracking with reorder points Venmo payment request helpers Optional iCloud Sync across your Apple devices Support, privacy, and business settings inside the app Microbakery Pro is designed to stay simple enough for daily use while giving you the numbers you need before flour hits the table.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Bake at Free against Microbakery Pro's $4.99. Microbakery Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On 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
Bake is free to download; Microbakery Pro costs $4.99 up front. Bake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Microbakery Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bake ships an update every 2 weeks, Microbakery Pro daily. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bake | Microbakery Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (183 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 70.6% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 183 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | — | #66 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marco Contino | Brian Vess |
In-app purchases
Bake
- Bake-u-lator Pro$0.991 Month
- Bake-u-lator Pro$9.99
Microbakery Pro
No in-app purchases
Questions
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