HelloSake vs Baking Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HelloSake
Discover the world of Japanese sake with detailed information and user reviews. Scan sake labels to instantly access details like origin, flavor, and sweetness. Save your favorites and enhance your sake tasting experience.
- Scan sake labels for instant information
- Detailed sake profiles (origin, flavor, sweetness)
- Save favorite sakes with notes and reviews
- Access experienced user reviews
- Precise search by name or machine learning
- Enhance sake tasting experience
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Welcome to HelloSake! Japanese sake has a lot of variety of products as well as tastes and each sake has its own brand story. HelloSake provides all sake lovers with access to detailed information extremely easily to help discover the best one. We help enrich the sake experience through this app to enhance the sake community. FEATURES/ HOW TO USE •Take a photo of the sake label to get access to the information easily. •Save your favorite sake that you had with some notes and simple reviews. •Refer to reviews of experienced users. •Information includes sake name, details, place of origin, flavor, and degree of sweetness/ spiciness. •Highly accurate machine learning enables super precise search functions. •Simply search sake information by name.
Baking Journal
Easily manage all your baking projects with this app. Build recipes with detailed instructions, track individual bakes, and note what worked and what didn't. Share your baking data across multiple devices.
- Recipe building with ingredients and instructions
- Hydration percentage calculation
- Individual bake tracking
- Notes on bake outcomes and changes
- Cross-device data sharing
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Manage all of your baking projects in one app. The Baking Journal app makes it easy. * Build your recipes, with ingredients, notes, and step-by-step instructions. It will even calculate Hydration percentages for you! * Track each individual bake for a recipe. Record start and end times, remember which steps you have completed (or which you’ve decided to skip), and take notes on what went right, what went wrong, and what you changed each time. * Share your data across multiple devices. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.zmosoft.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HelloSake at none against Baking Journal's 2. HelloSake also leads on ratings volume (28 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). Baking Journal's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6) and update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). 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. Baking Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. HelloSake asks for nothing beyond the download.
Baking Journal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HelloSake has 28 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
HelloSake ships an update fortnightly, Baking Journal every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HelloSake | Baking Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | HelloSake, Inc | ZMo Software |
Customer experience
HelloSake
Baking Journal
In-app purchases
HelloSake
No in-app purchases
Baking Journal
- Baking Journal Premium$4.991 Month
- Baking Journal Premium$39.991 Year
