Comparison

Bake vs The Muffin App

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

The Muffin App

This app helps home bakers and cottage food businesses manage orders, pre-orders, and subscriptions. It allows you to create an online shop, get discovered by local customers, and handle payments and communication seamlessly. Focus on baking while this app streamlines your business operations.

Highlights
  • Local bakery marketplace
  • Create bakery shop
  • Accept all payment methods
  • Pre-orders & bakery drops
  • Subscriptions for recurring income
  • Order management
  • In-app messaging
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Home bakers and cottage food businesses — The Muffin App handles orders, pre-orders, subscriptions, and customer messaging so you can focus on what you love: baking. Set up your shop in minutes and get discovered by local customers looking for exactly what you make. - LOCAL BAKERY MARKETPLACE Get discovered by customers near you in a dedicated marketplace for home bakers and cottage food businesses. List your baked goods so locals can find and order from you directly. - CREATE YOUR BAKERY SHOP Set up your bakery profile in minutes. Add products, photos, pricing, and availability so customers can place pre-orders or custom requests with ease. - ACCEPT ALL PAYMENT METHODS Collect payments by cash, bank transfer, Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, and more. Send automated receipts to customers regardless of how they pay. - PRE-ORDERS & BAKERY DROPS Run your bakery on your schedule. Set order windows, pickup dates, and quantity limits for weekly bakes, seasonal drops, and custom orders. - SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR RECURRING INCOME Offer weekly or monthly subscriptions for your best-selling items like bread, cookies, cakes, and dessert boxes. Build steady, predictable revenue from repeat customers. - ORDER MANAGEMENT MADE SIMPLE Track every order in one place from request to pickup. Stay organized with clear order status, customer details, and upcoming baking schedules. - IN-APP MESSAGING & NOTIFICATIONS Communicate directly with customers about orders, pickups, and custom requests. Automated reminders help reduce missed orders and confusion. - BAKE PLANNING & PRODUCTION LISTS Automatically generate what you need to bake each week based on real orders. Reduce waste, stay organized, and plan your baking days with clarity. - REVIEWS & BUSINESS INSIGHTS See your most popular products, best customers, and total revenue. Understand what sells best so you can grow your bakery with confidence. Download The Muffin App free and have your shop live today.

Screenshots

Bake4 screens
The Muffin App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: The Muffin App at 5.0 against Bake's 4.5. The Muffin App also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Bake's advantage is ratings volume (184 vs 6) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). On price, 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. The Muffin App asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Muffin App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bake has 184 ratings behind it against 6, 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 The Muffin App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bake ships an update every 2 weeks, The Muffin App monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Bake versus The Muffin App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBakeThe Muffin App
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (184 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews70.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings184 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco ContinoHappy Path Software, LLC

Customer experience

Bake

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

The Muffin App

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 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

The Muffin App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bake free?
Bake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Muffin App free?
The Muffin App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Bake or The Muffin App?
The Muffin App is rated higher. Bake averages 4.5 out of 5 from 184 ratings, while The Muffin App averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Bake or The Muffin App have ads?
Neither Bake nor The Muffin App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bake or The Muffin App?
Bake ships an update every 2 weeks, and The Muffin App monthly. Most recently, Bake was updated on October 21, 2026 and The Muffin App on October 14, 2026.

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