Love, Manuela vs Ella's Kitchen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Love, Manuela
Access over 470 home-baked recipes with step-by-step photos and clear instructions. Discover a wide variety of cakes, fillings, cookies, and more, all designed for delicious results. This app offers a growing digital cookbook with easy navigation and helpful features for bakers of all levels.
- Over 470 baking recipes
- Step-by-step photo instructions
- Easy recipe categories
- Improved search and filtering
- New Cake Mode to keep screen awake
- Personalizable recipe notes
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Love, Manuela is a baking app created by Norwegian baker Manuela Kjeilen, known as @passionforbaking. For more than a decade, Manuela has shared her love of baking with people around the world. She has published nine baking books, hosted her own baking show on TV in Sweden, and inspires more than 1.6 million followers on Instagram with her cakes, recipes, and beautiful baking ideas. Inside the Love, Manuela app, you get instant access to more than 470 baking recipes, all written in English, with high-quality step-by-step photos for every recipe from beginning to end. One-time purchase. No subscription. New recipes are included when they are added. For Manuela, taste always comes first. Beautiful cakes are lovely, but the most important thing is that every bite tastes delicious. Her recipes are created to let the flavors shine, with soft textures, creamy fillings, balanced sweetness, and desserts that taste just as good as they look. From everyday treats to celebration cakes, the recipes are made for home baking. Inside the app, you will find sponge cakes in many variations, ganaches in delicious flavors like strawberry, latte, and banana milkshake, lots of Scandinavian-style cakes, light fillings, cheesecakes, ice creams, sweet dough, frostings, cookies, cupcakes, and so much more. The app is made to feel like a growing digital baking book that you can return to again and again. It is easy to navigate, with clear recipe categories, improved search and filtering, and helpful tags so you can quickly find what you are looking for. A few more categories have also been added to make browsing even easier. Each recipe opens with a large photo and a short introduction, followed by clear directions, recipe notes, a place where you can write your own notes, and step-by-step photos that guide you through the recipe. Whether you are baking a cake, preparing a filling, whipping a frosting, or making cookies, the app is designed to help you feel confident in every step. New Cake Mode helps keep your screen awake while you read and follow a recipe, so you do not have to keep touching your phone or tablet while your hands are busy baking. The app has also been refined with improved UI, a smoother overall user experience, and an improved password reset flow. Love, Manuela is not a subscription. It is a one-time purchase of $12.99, converted to your local currency by the App Store or Google Play. You get access to all recipes inside the app instantly, and when new recipes are added in the future, they are included at no extra cost. Your purchase is connected to the store account you buy it with, either App Store or Google Play. You can restore your purchase anytime using the same store account. What you get inside the app: More than 470 baking recipes Recipes written in English only Clear and easy-to-follow instructions High-quality step-by-step photos for every recipe Easy recipe categories Improved search and filtering Helpful tags to find recipes faster A place to write your own notes inside each recipe Recipe notes and tips from Manuela Cake Mode to keep your screen awake while baking Access to new recipes when they are added One-time purchase on this platform No subscription This is not a baking video app. The Love, Manuela app is focused on written recipes, high-quality photos, clear directions, recipe notes, and step-by-step pictures for every recipe. It is created for bakers who love to read, follow, save, and return to recipes whenever they want. The Love, Manuela app has more than 75,000 registered users worldwide, and Manuela’s recipes are loved by home bakers, cake lovers, professional bakers, and bakeries around the world. If you love soft cakes, sponge cakes, ganache, creamy frostings, light fillings, cupcakes, cookies, Scandinavian-style baking, sweet dough, cheesecakes, ice creams, and homemade desserts that taste as good as they look, you are going to love the Love, Manuela app. Happy baking! XO, Love, Manuela
Ella's Kitchen
Discover global recipes and create personalized grocery lists for your home cooking adventures. Whether you're a seasoned chef or a beginner, this app offers easy-to-follow instructions for a diverse range of international dishes.
- Global recipe collection
- Personalized grocery lists
- Easy-to-follow instructions
- Diverse international cuisines
- Suitable for all skill levels
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"Ella's Kitchen" is a great tool to help you out in the Kitchen. Besides being stock full of delectable recipes, it features a personalized grocery list so you know exactly what to get at the supermarket on the way home. Date night at home just got interesting with these signature recipes sourced from all over the globe. No matter if you are an experienced Chef looking to expand your personal recipes, or a newbie learning their way around the kitchen, this App is super easy to follow. About the Chef: "Ella's Kitchen" is inspired by the eats of International Pop Star Toeknee Tee(US). Named after his grandma Ella whom he spent many summers with in Nashville, TN, this collection of amazing recipes spans numerous Continents and Cuisines. Toeknee Tee grew up in the deep south before moving abroad to locations such as Australia and Europe where his taste buds evolved from their southern flavor base. From Pakistani proven Biriyani, to Mz. Ella's Famous Grilled Cheese with Apple Sauce, this book is full of diversity and flavor. 10 years abroad is likely to change anyones pallet, so taste the world through his recipes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Ella's Kitchen at Free against Love, Manuela's $12.99. Ella's Kitchen also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and review sentiment (100% vs 68%). Love, Manuela's advantage is ratings volume (178 vs 2) and chart position (#3 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, 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
Ella's Kitchen is free to download; Love, Manuela costs $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Ella's Kitchen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Love, Manuela has 178 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Love, Manuela's written reviews are positive against 100% of Ella's Kitchen's.
Love, Manuela ships an update every 5 months, Ella's Kitchen every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Love, Manuela | Ella's Kitchen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $12.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (178 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 178 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #3 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Passion For Baking AS | Set Trippn Ltd. Co |
Customer experience
Love, Manuela
Ella's Kitchen
Bugs and requests
Love, Manuela
Reported bugs
2 issues- App crashes or fails to open for some users
- Inconsistent recipe display across devices
Requested features
3 requests- Step-by-step video tutorials
- Option to save and organize personal notes
- Ability to print or export recipes
Ella's Kitchen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Love, Manuela
No in-app purchases
Ella's Kitchen
No in-app purchases
Questions
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