Comparison

Baking Helper vs Kitchen

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Baking Helper

Easily convert baking ingredient units by weight or volume, even without a scale. Manage your baking times with a built-in cooking timer. Supports a wide range of ingredients and units for precise recipe adjustments.

Highlights
  • Unit conversions (weight to volume)
  • Cooking timer
  • Extensive ingredient support
  • Multiple unit options
  • Save converted values
Features
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Convert baking ingredients between weight and volume—even when you do not have a scale. Save the converted amounts to your own recipes and keep everything you need for the bake in one place. Baking Helper is a practical kitchen companion for home bakers. Convert flour, sugar, butter, dairy, chocolate, matcha, and dozens of other ingredients using cups, grams, ounces, and more. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Convert between weight and volume for baking ingredients • Save converted amounts directly to your recipes • Use a kitchen timer while you bake • Work with cups (US, metric, UK, Asian), tablespoons, teaspoons, grams, ounces, and more • Use ingredient-specific densities for more useful conversions • Keep recipes and a built-in kitchen timer close at hand MADE FOR THE KITCHEN A clean, focused layout keeps conversion, recipes, and timing within reach. Choose from US, metric, UK, and Asian cup sizes, or switch to tablespoons, teaspoons, grams, and ounces when a recipe calls for something different. Convert. Save. Bake with confidence.

About

Kitchen

Quickly convert kitchen measurements like volume and weight. Easily handle fractions, decimals, and temperature conversions. Save custom settings for recipes.

Highlights
  • Volume conversions (tablespoons to milliliters)
  • Weight conversions (grams)
  • Temperature conversions (Celsius/Fahrenheit)
  • Fraction and decimal input
  • Customizable recipe settings
  • Result multiplication/division
Features
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Fastest way to convert units used in the kitchen. (Only 2 taps to convert 5 tablespoons to milliliters.) No more clumsy scrolling to pick the unit you want out of hundreds of choices. Its innovative input method allows you to enter values as fractions or decimals. Fast, easy, and flexible! Weighing ingredients instead of using spoons and cups is more accurate and easier, especially for things like honey and ketchup. The app makes the conversion to grams a breeze. Easily divide or multiply the result. Encounter recipes that use Celsius rather than Fahrenheit? It makes the conversion in a snap! Always forgetting what temperature your favorite cookie recipe calls for? You can store custom temperature settings along with baking times. This is a no-nonsense, highly streamlined app designed specifically for all your measurement needs in the kitchen. For Subscriber Agreement and other policies: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ For privacy policy: https://www.old-mountain-studio.com/privacy-policy

Screenshots

Baking Helper4 screens
Kitchen4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Kitchen at Free against Baking Helper's $2.99. Kitchen also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.3) and ratings volume (9 vs 3). Baking Helper's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 8 months). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Kitchen is free to download; Baking Helper costs $2.99 up front. Kitchen sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Baking Helper asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kitchen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 9 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Baking Helper ships an update every 3 months, Kitchen every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Baking Helper versus Kitchen: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBaking HelperKitchen
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating2.3 (3 ratings)5.0 (9 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings39 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.7 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeungHoon KamTakehito Furuyama

Customer experience

Baking Helper

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

Kitchen

All ratings9 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Baking Helper

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Kitchen

Subscriptions2
  • All Access$0.991 Month
  • All Access$1.991 Year
One-time1
  • All Access$4.99

Questions

Is Baking Helper free?
Baking Helper costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kitchen free?
Kitchen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Baking Helper or Kitchen?
Kitchen is rated higher. Baking Helper averages 2.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Kitchen averages 5.0 from 9 ratings.
Do Baking Helper or Kitchen have ads?
Neither Baking Helper nor Kitchen shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Baking Helper or Kitchen?
Baking Helper ships an update every 3 months, and Kitchen every 8 months. Most recently, Baking Helper was updated on October 11, 2026 and Kitchen on September 30, 2026.

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