Kitchen Buddy vs Cakeulator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kitchen Buddy
Easily convert cooking measurements, find ingredient substitutions, and adapt recipes for different pan sizes. This app offers a vast database of ingredients and conversions to help bakers and cooks overcome common kitchen challenges.
- Measurement conversion
- Ingredient substitution
- Pan size adaptation
- Extensive ingredient database
- Ingredient descriptions and alternate names
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Ever had a recipe call for 100 grams of flour but you’re using measuring cups? Or you have run out of a spice and you want to know what you can use instead? Or perhaps you have a recipe calling for a square cake pan but you want to use two round pans. The Kitchen Buddy has you covered. In one application you can convert measurements, determine how to substitute different sizes and shapes of pans, even how to replace one ingredient with another. Kitchen Buddy includes more than 2500 different ingredients with descriptions, alternate names, and potential substitutions in addition to managing a myriad of conversions. Kitchen Buddy is the baker’s best friend.
Cakeulator
Easily convert baking measurements for recipes, including metric to imperial conversions, weight, volume, and pan size adjustments. Build your own recipe collection and utilize the included free unit converter.
- Ingredient measurement conversion
- Metric to imperial conversion
- Weight, volume, and mass conversion
- Serving size adjustments
- Pan size conversion (round to square)
- Recipe collection builder
- Free unit converter
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The best measurement converter to help you convert your cake recipes. It’s easy to do baking conversions. A recipe converter that supports conversion by ingredient, metric to imperial and vice versa, conversions by weight, volume or mass, and a number of serving adjustments. Cakeulator helps you scale up or down a recipe. Just type in the original pan size and the pan size you would like your cake to be. Besides converting measurements, it supports converting from round to square pans. If you want only to adjust a recipe, you can set both the FROM unit of measurement and the TO unit of measurement to the one from the recipe and the Cakeulator will calculate only the scaling. You can build up your own recipe collection. And it also comes with additional free unit converter. You may want to do your conversions first and then get to baking. Cakeulator baking converter supports the following unit measurement categories: WEIGHT: Ounce (oz) Pound (lb) Gram (g) Kilogram (kg) Dekagram (dg) VOLUME: Teaspoon (tsp) [metric/us] Tablespoon (tbsp) [metric/us] Cup [metric/us] Fluid Ounce (fl oz) [metric/us] Pint (pt) [metric/us] Quart (qt) [metric/us] Millilitre (ml) Decilitre (dl) Litre (l) You can now spend more time in the kitchen doing what you love. Try it for yourself and let us know what you think of our app. Any feedback is greatly appreciated.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Kitchen Buddy at 3.8 against Cakeulator's 1.0. Kitchen Buddy also leads on review sentiment (33% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 6 months vs every 35 months). Cakeulator's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Kitchen Buddy costs $0.99 and Cakeulator $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Kitchen Buddy holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Kitchen Buddy's written reviews are positive against 0% of Cakeulator's.
Kitchen Buddy ships an update every 6 months, Cakeulator every 35 months. Both last shipped on September 10, 2026.
| Parameter | Kitchen Buddy | Cakeulator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) — better | 1.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months — better | Every 35 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #137 — better | #164 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 116 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jan-Wouter Arendsen | Rastislav Novotny |
Customer experience
Kitchen Buddy
Cakeulator
In-app purchases
Kitchen Buddy
No in-app purchases
Cakeulator
No in-app purchases
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