Bread Book vs Baker Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bread Book
Easily convert recipe ingredient amounts and adjust serving sizes with a slider. Capture photos of your bakes and add detailed notes for consistency. Share your culinary creations with friends and family.
- Ingredient conversion
- Adjustable serving sizes
- Recipe photo capture
- Flexible notes section
- Recipe sharing
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Bread Book is a conversion tool for bakers and home cooks. Add your favorite recipes and instantly see the baker's percentage for each ingredient. *Adjust servings* Move the slider up and down to adjust the serving size for each recipe. Need to make half as much as last time? Slide down until you see "0.5x". Making double? Slide up. Making a feast for all of your friends and family? Edit the recipe to increase the maximum serving size to 4x, 8x, 20x, as high as you want and then slide up! *Capture the moment* Bake the perfect loaf of bread? Take a picture of it on the recipe page to show your friends, and in the future, use the photo to compare against your next great loaf. *Flexible notes* Can't remember whether to bake at 450° or 500°? Write it down in the notes section. You might also take notes on how many folds and at what interval, or how much starter to use, or what happened when you increased or decreased the hydration, whether to use a steam tray, or how long to let your bread cool. Remember, baking is a science, and notes help you stay consistent. *Share your recipe* Tap the share button to send your friends and family a copy of your recipe.
Baker Buddy
This app helps home bakers calculate ingredient weights using baker's percentages. Simply input your desired percentages and target weight, and it handles all the math for you. It also includes a multiplier for scaling recipes.
- Baker's percentage calculations
- Ingredient weight determination
- Target end weight input
- Recipe scaling multiplier
- Recipe storage and editing
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Baker Buddy is the app built by home bakers, for home bakers. When determining the correct formula for a recipe, bakers use baker's percentages — weights calculated as a percentage of the flour weight. This app allows a baker to simply enter their ingredient percentages and all the calculations are taken care of. Determining measurements for the perfect loaf of bread is tedious. With Baker Buddy all you have to do is enter your target end weight and the baker percentages of your ingredients. Instead of manually calculating your ingredients based on the weight of the flour, the app takes care of everything for you. There's even a handy multiplier feature for when you need to scale up. All of your recipes are stored in your phone for later editing and viewing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Bread Book at Free against Baker Buddy's $0.99. Bread Book also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (11 vs 1). Baker Buddy's advantage is chart position (#188 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.2). On review sentiment, in-app purchases 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
Bread Book is free to download; Baker Buddy costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bread Book holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bread Book has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 75% and 75% positive.
| Parameter | Bread Book | Baker Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (11 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #188 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sandro Turriate | Joshua Piedimonte |
Customer experience
Bread Book
Baker Buddy
In-app purchases
Bread Book
No in-app purchases
Baker Buddy
No in-app purchases









