Cakeulator vs ChefScaler
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cakeulator
Easily convert baking measurements for recipes, including metric to imperial conversions, weight, volume, and pan size adjustments. Build your own recipe collection and utilize the included free unit converter.
- Ingredient measurement conversion
- Metric to imperial conversion
- Weight, volume, and mass conversion
- Serving size adjustments
- Pan size conversion (round to square)
- Recipe collection builder
- Free unit converter
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The best measurement converter to help you convert your cake recipes. It’s easy to do baking conversions. A recipe converter that supports conversion by ingredient, metric to imperial and vice versa, conversions by weight, volume or mass, and a number of serving adjustments. Cakeulator helps you scale up or down a recipe. Just type in the original pan size and the pan size you would like your cake to be. Besides converting measurements, it supports converting from round to square pans. If you want only to adjust a recipe, you can set both the FROM unit of measurement and the TO unit of measurement to the one from the recipe and the Cakeulator will calculate only the scaling. You can build up your own recipe collection. And it also comes with additional free unit converter. You may want to do your conversions first and then get to baking. Cakeulator baking converter supports the following unit measurement categories: WEIGHT: Ounce (oz) Pound (lb) Gram (g) Kilogram (kg) Dekagram (dg) VOLUME: Teaspoon (tsp) [metric/us] Tablespoon (tbsp) [metric/us] Cup [metric/us] Fluid Ounce (fl oz) [metric/us] Pint (pt) [metric/us] Quart (qt) [metric/us] Millilitre (ml) Decilitre (dl) Litre (l) You can now spend more time in the kitchen doing what you love. Try it for yourself and let us know what you think of our app. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
ChefScaler
Easily scale ingredient quantities for your recipes based on the desired number of servings. Store your favorite recipes with details like photos and ratings, and access them anytime for quick adjustments. Supports standard metric units.
- Adjust ingredient quantities with one click
- Instantly view adjusted ingredient amounts
- Store recipes with photos and ratings
- Supports metric units
- Dark Mode support
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ChefScaler helps you to adjust ingredients quantities in your recipes. With one click of a button, ChefScaler adjusts all your ingredients quantities in your favorite recipes, according to the number of servings you need. You only have to enter your recipe once into ChefScaler. Then you can bring up the recipe anytime you want, just change the number of servings, and instantly you get the adjusted ingredients' quantities for your recipe. Current major features: 1. One button clicks to change the number of serves in recipe 2. Instantly show all adjusted ingredients quantities in recipe 3. Store recipes with Photo, Rating, Easiness, etc. 4. Ingredient supports standard metric units (US units will be supported in future release) Other features 1. Dark Mode support 2. Optimized for iPhone 11 and SE2
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: ChefScaler at Free against Cakeulator's $0.99. ChefScaler also leads on update cadence (every 16 months vs every 35 months). Cakeulator's advantage is chart position (#76 vs unranked) and device support (3 vs 1). On rating, ads and in-app purchases 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
ChefScaler is free to download; Cakeulator costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.0 for Cakeulator against 1.0 for ChefScaler. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Cakeulator ships an update every 35 months, ChefScaler every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cakeulator | ChefScaler |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 1.0 (3 ratings) | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 35 months | Every 16 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #76 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rastislav Novotny | MENG KUONG LEI |
Customer experience
Cakeulator
ChefScaler
In-app purchases
Cakeulator
No in-app purchases
ChefScaler
No in-app purchases
