Oven Breads vs Homebaker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Oven Breads
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Oven Breads specializes in crafting a diverse range of delicious baked goods, perfect for satisfying your cravings and enhancing your meals. Our commitment to quality shines through in every product we offer. From bread items to pizza bases and tortillas, each item is carefully crafted using high-quality ingredients to ensure a delightful experience with every bite.
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) โ 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 in-app purchases: Oven Breads at none against Homebaker's 1. Oven Breads also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Homebaker sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Oven Breads asks for nothing beyond the download.
Oven Breads ships an update every 3 weeks, Homebaker fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 16, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Oven Breads | Homebaker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | โ | 100.0% of reviews |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Fortnightly โ better |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No โ better | Yes |
| Monetization | โ | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0.0 โ better |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | APPZIAC LLP | SIMON RAYMOND SCHOEN |
In-app purchases
Oven Breads
No in-app purchases
Homebaker
- Homebaker Pro$1.991 Month









