Rise vs Bready
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rise
This app is a comprehensive tool for bread baking enthusiasts, offering curated recipes, advanced editing capabilities, and intelligent scheduling. It helps users plan, track, and perfect their bakes with features like recipe import, custom creation, and dynamic rise time calculations. Users can also journal their baking experiences and share creations with others.
- Curated and customizable recipes
- Magic recipe import from websites/photos
- Intuitive recipe creation tools
- Dynamic rise time scheduling
- Baking journal with notes and photos
- Recipe and bake sharing
- Helpful baking articles and resources
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Rise is devoted to every aspect of making yummy bread! It includes great recipes, makes planning & scheduling easy, and serves as a baking journal. Rise syncs across all of your devices and supports sharing recipes with others. Rise has everything you need to bake bread for both beginners and experts. Beginners can use our easy to follow recipes and articles, while experts can use Rise’s powerful editing tools to perfect their bread. Rise helps you plan your recipe with a schedule overview from start to finish, so you know exactly when you’ll perform each step at a glance. Schedule notifications alert you when it’s time to complete each task. Rise even takes the guesswork out of fermentation by dynamically calculating bulk rise and proof times using your dough’s temperature and ingredients. FEATURED RECIPES • Recipes created in-house, from our favorite bakers, and from the community • Easily customize any recipe before making by adjusting weight, hydration, and yield MAGIC IMPORT • Import recipes from any website, photos, or from your own text • Our AI scans the recipe and imports all ingredients & steps in the Rise format • Describe changes to any recipe and our AI will make a new one with those changes! CREATE YOUR OWN RECIPES • Add your own recipes to Rise using its intuitive card-based interface • Ingredients can be adjusted by total weight, yield, or baker’s percentages • Each step card can have any number of tasks, timers, and other useful widgets SCHEDULING & MAKING • Rise makes following a recipe’s schedule a breeze, and even handles multi-day recipes • The Overview screen shows a recipe’s entire schedule from start to finish • Get reminder notifications when it’s time to move to the next step or task, or when a timer is up • Use Magic Rise Time widgets to schedule the bulk and proof phases automatically, based on the temperature and ingredients of your dough. For proofing, you can even decide to refrigerate overnight • Flexible scheduling means you can finish a step early, back up a step, or add more time if needed JOURNALING • The My Rises tab gives you a thorough history of your sourdough adventure, with each item representing one single baking experience • Each rise has a Journal section for you to add notes and observations about each bake • Take photos of your process and the final product for sharing or browsing later SHARING • Share any rise or recipe you’ve made with others! Just turn on Sharing to get a short URL that you can share with friends or post online • The shared web page shows your ingredients, method, and photos, so you can share entire recipes with anyone! Others can import your recipe into Rise right from the same page • Share recipes with the community and they'll show up in the Featured tab for everyone to enjoy! RESOURCES Rise includes helpful articles and references for things like sourdough starter care, folding & shaping techniques, gear to get you started, and more UTILITIES • Starter Feed Reminders: Get notified when it’s time to feed your starter • Rise Times: Calculate ideal rise times based on temperature, starter percentage, hydration, and salt content • Hydration: Calculate hydration (both baker’s and “true”) along with baker’s percentages for all ingredients • Desired Dough Temperature: We include both the traditional formula and our own custom formula which is 12x more accurate • Unit Converter: Convert between weight and volume for common ingredient types • Rise Factor: Represents how much your bread rose while baking using a single number. Noting the rise factor for each loaf is a great way to track your improvement CLOUD SYNC Seamlessly sync across all your iPad & iPhone devices, even when making! FREE & PAID OPTIONS Rise is free with limited access to recipes and features. Unlock all recipes with flexible purchase options. Privacy policy and Terms of Use: http://bakewithrise.com/privacy/index.html
Bready
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Bready: Bread Baking Timer steps you through baking sourdough bread. There are six steps with timers: dough rising (90 minutes), oven preheating (30), baking with Dutch-oven cover on (30), baking with cover off (20), 2-minute repeatable check-bread timer, bread resting (40). Bready includes a recipe for sourdough bread.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bready at none against Rise's 8. Bready also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Rise's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months). 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
Both are free to download. Rise sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Bready asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rise ships an update every 2 weeks, Bready every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rise | Bready |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (330 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 89.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 330 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Made by Windmill, LLC | Forest and the Trees, LLC |
Bugs and requests
Rise
Reported bugs
11 issues- Text constantly deletes itself
- Text in recipe steps covered by UI
- Ingredients list resets itself
- Scaling recipes does not work as intended
- App idles without loading
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- App quits in the middle of steps
- Cannot enter tsp amounts smaller than 1/2 tsp
- Notes added on one device are overwritten on another
- Custom recipe ingredient amounts change slightly when baking
- Smart DDT calculator may have errors
- Notification alarms not received
Requested features
8 requests- Export/import recipes
- Widgets for home/lock screen
- Timer pause function
- Ability to share community recipes
- Separate ingredient sections for levain and dough
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- End time scheduling for recipes
- Support for BBGA formulas
- Ability to run multiple recipes simultaneously
Bready
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Rise
- Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- 3 Month Subscription7 Days trial$8.993 Months
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- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- One time purchase2 variants$19.99
- One time purchase$34.99
Bready
No in-app purchases







