CakeCost vs Recipe Sizer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CakeCost
This app helps bakers and cake decorators accurately calculate the cost of their creations. It factors in ingredients, expenses, and your time, ensuring you charge appropriately and understand your profit margins.
- Calculate ingredient costs
- Cost time and expenses
- Set profit margins
- View net costs
- Determine what to charge customers
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Are you struggling to figure out what to charge for your cakes and baking services? - CakeCost is designed for bakers and cake decorators, and makes recipe pricing easy. Are you unsure if you are charging enough for your baking? - CakeCost removes uncertainty by calculating prices including ingredients, expenses and your valuable time. Do you usually estimate prices and are unsure of your actual profits? - CakeCost accurately calculates prices with the profit margin you want. With CakeCost you can: - Determine the costs for your ingredients. - Properly cost your time and expenses. - Set your profit and view net costs. Use CakeCost to know exactly what to charge your customers. For more details refer to our website: http://www.cakecost.net Our Terms of Use can be found here: https://www.cakecost.net/pages/terms
Recipe Sizer
Easily manage your recipes by creating and storing them. Adjust serving sizes, and the app automatically recalculates ingredient quantities. Quickly find recipes based on specific ingredients.
- Create and store recipes
- Recalculate ingredients for new serving sizes
- Search recipes by ingredient
- Simple and intuitive design
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Recipe Sizer is the perfect app for managing your recipes. It's been developed to ease your tasks: 1. Create your recipes and take a look at them at any time 2. Change the number of diners and the app will recalculate the correct amount of ingredients 3. Find the recipes that contains a certain ingredient With a simple design and beautiful illustrations!
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Verdict
CakeCost and Recipe Sizer both sit at 3.1 stars, but that hides the real split: 50% of CakeCost's written reviews are positive against 0% of Recipe Sizer's. CakeCost also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). Recipe Sizer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, rating 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. CakeCost sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Recipe Sizer asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.1 for CakeCost against 3.0 for Recipe Sizer. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CakeCost has 30 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of CakeCost's written reviews are positive against 0% of Recipe Sizer's.
CakeCost ships an update monthly, Recipe Sizer every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CakeCost | Recipe Sizer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (30 ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #194 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | CakeCost | Daniel Lao |
Customer experience
CakeCost
Recipe Sizer
In-app purchases
CakeCost
- Premium Plan - Monthly$8.991 Month
- English US$99.991 Month
Recipe Sizer
No in-app purchases
Questions
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