Pestle vs Homebaker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pestle
Easily save recipes from any online source, organize them with guided cooking, and plan your meals. Digitize physical recipes with a scanner and share your cookbook with family.
- Import recipes from any website
- Guided cooking with hands-free control
- Unlimited timers and quantity reminders
- Meal planning for up to 14 days
- Shared household cookbooks
- Recipe scanner for physical recipes
- Automatic shopping list generation
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Save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube and more with Pestle. IMPORT FROM ANYWHERE Import recipes from anywhere on the internet to Pestle, and keep just the ingredients and steps. Just tap 'Share', and 'Save to my Cookbook'. GUIDED COOKING Turn any recipe into a step-by-step process with Pestle's guided cooking experience. Control Pestle hands-free for those messy recipes, set as many timers as you want & get reminders for quantities with just a tap. DEVICE SYNC Find a recipe on your iPhone, and cook it for dinner on your iPad with seamless, instant sync. For the power users, you can even switch between your iPad & iPhone with Handoff. HOUSEHOLDS Create a Pestle Household and share all of your recipes with your family, and create Meal Plans together, too! DISCOVER Pestle learns where you save recipes from and suggests to you their latest creations. Add your favorite foodie blogs and always stay up to date. MEAL PLAN Pestle can help you plan out your next 14-days by allowing you to assign recipes to each day. And, of course, syncs everywhere. SHOPPING LIST Take every ingredient from your recipe and add it to your shopping list! Already got Olive Oil? No worries, just tap it to remove it from your list. BOOKMARKS When Pestle isn't able to intelligently extract recipe details, Bookmarks are saved to take you straight back to the source. RECIPE SCANNING We get it, not all recipes are online. If you have a big collection of physical recipes, worry not, Pestle has a recipe scanner to digitize them! There's a lot more you can do with Pestle, but we'll let you discover it! The use of Pestle is outlined in our Terms of Use, which can be found at https://pestlechef.app/terms.
Homebaker
This app helps home bakers track bread recipes and baking sessions. It allows users to create custom recipes, log detailed session notes with timings and photos, and manage sourdough starters. Push notifications remind users of important steps and feeding times.
- Create custom bread recipes
- Log detailed baking sessions with photos
- Automatic baker's percentage calculation
- Manage sourdough starter activity
- Step-by-step baking session tracking
- Push notification reminders
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Perfect your bread baking with Homebaker, the bread baking notes app for home bakers that want to keep track of their bread recipes and baking sessions. Whether you're just beginning your baking journey or you're a seasoned bread baker, Homebaker offers seamless tools to: - Perfect your recipes: Create your own bread baking recipes by adding your preferment, dough and non-dough ingredients, as well as detailed recipe steps. Homebaker automatically calculates baker's percentages and hydration. Use recipes as templates to pre-fill your baking sessions. You can also share your recipes with fellow bakers using a public link. - Log your baking sessions: Record every step of your baking sessions with detailed timings, descriptions, metadata (such as temperatures) and pictures. Review past sessions and refine your techniques for perfect results every time. - Step by step precision: Never forget to add salt again. Mark baking steps as done to keep track of where you are in a baking session. - Manage your sourdough starters: log your starter's activity and schedule feeding notifications - Get notified: Get notified with push notifications when step timers are completed in your baking session or when it's time to check on your sourdough starter. - Stay synced: With the Pro version (requires paid subscription) – access Homebaker from any device, including desktops, via our web app. A subscription to Homebaker Pro is optional and can be purchased in-app to unlock the following features: - Unlimited creation of recipes: In the free version of Homebaker the number of recipes you can create is limited. Upgrade to Pro to create as many recipes as you want, which also can be used as templates for your baking sessions - Access to the Homebaker web app: Your recipes and sessions get synced with your Homebaker account and can be accessed in the browser via the web app. This makes it easy to manage your baking notes on desktop devices. Subscriptions will be automatically renewed and charged on a monthly basis. You can cancel anytime in your iTunes account settings. You can find the Terms of Use (EULA) here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.homebaker.app/privacy Support: https://www.homebaker.app/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pestle at none against Homebaker's shown. Pestle also leads on chart position (#67 vs unranked). Homebaker's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 78%) and iOS requirement (14.0.0 vs 17.6). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Pestle sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Homebaker sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pestle ships an update every 2 weeks, Homebaker fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pestle | Homebaker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.8K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #67 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 14.0.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 97 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Will Bishop | SIMON RAYMOND SCHOEN |
Customer experience
Pestle
Homebaker
Bugs and requests
Pestle
Reported bugs
4 issues- Recipes disappearing after device change
- Inability to access saved recipes in free version
- Glitches with category/cuisine tagging
- Shopping list formatting issues
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to add multiple photos/scans for recipes
- Improved search and filtering options
- Integration with other recipe/meal planning apps
- Shared meal planning and recipe book for households
- Desktop app or web version
Homebaker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pestle
- Pestle Pro (Monthly)$2.991 Month
- Pestle Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Pestle Pro Yearly7 Days trial$24.991 Year
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- Pestle Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Pestle Pro (Lifetime)$39.99
- Pestle Pro Lifetime$49.99
Homebaker
- Homebaker Pro$1.991 Month









