Comparison

Cost A Cake Pro vs Spec App

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

Head to head
About

Cost A Cake Pro

This app helps bakers calculate the cost of their creations, including ingredients, time, and extra materials. It allows users to create detailed quotes for customers quickly and accurately.

Highlights
  • Ingredient pantry management
  • Recipe creation and storage
  • Customizable extras for non-edible items
  • Currency selection
  • Detailed quote generation
  • Support for various measurement units
Features
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** NUMBER 1 Food and Drink App in 15 countries including UK and Ireland, Top 10 in 32 countries including USA and Australia ** ** Featured in the App Store Food and Drink 'Cooking' section across 80 countries ** Do you think you are undercharging for your cakes? When a customer asks you to quote for a cake, how do you work it all out? Do you stumble on answering cake pricing questions? How much should I charge for my cakes and cupcakes? How do I calculate the ingredients cost? What about the extra costings like boards, boxes and baking paper? How much should I charge for baking time, or delivery? And what about MY time? I'm baking for a friend, what will it cost me? How do I calculate a cake quote for a large order, quickly, if a customer is on the phone asking? Cost a Cake Pro can answer ALL these questions for you. Cost a Cake Pro is an invaluable business tool for anyone who bakes cakes, cupcakes, pastries, cookies, cake pops or any other edible creation or food. It was created by the team at The Cake Makery to assist home and professional bakers with this often time consuming task. With Cost a Cake Pro you can add any ingredient to your pantry, and you can add any additional item to the extras section, cake boards, cake boxes, ribbon, moulds used, and other such non edible expenditures. Once your pantry has all the things you regularly bake with, creating your favourite and most used recipes is very quick as you simply add in all the ingredients and their amounts. Your recipes are stored, and from here you can create detailed and accurate quotes for your customers. Here are a few of our best features: * Choose you own currency - We automatically support ALL worldwide currencies from £ to $ to Euro or Yen. * Cost a Cake Pro is really easy to use, add and edit your ingredients and recipes in a few clicks, swipe left or right to delete anything. Designed with ease of use, speed and simplicity in mind. * Add, edit and delete ingredients in your Pantry. Ingredients can be anything that you can buy in your local supermarket! Yes, you can add in regular food items, such as all the ingredients for your smoothies and juicing or work out the cost of your family dinners. * You can add ingredients in: Cups Grams Ounces Fluid ounces Litres Millilitres Centimetres Meters Inches By name for single items or things that come as a pack like 12 eggs or 6 Apples. * Pantry includes an Extras store - here you can add anything that is inedible, such as: Baking paper Ribbon for your cake boards Cake Boards and cake drums Cupcake Boxes Cake Boxes Florist wire, and tape Oven times for baking cost Your delivery cost per mile * Once you have added your ingredients - you can use them to create individual recipes, with a few clicks you select the ingredient that you want to add, enter the amount you need and add it in. You can also add extras at this point so cupcake recipes can include your cases, and big cakes can include baking paper as part of the recipe as it's always used. * Once you have created recipes, you can build customer quotes. You simply select the recipes that you will use to make the cake for your order, add them in (as many times as you need - helpful if you have a recipe for 12 cupcakes and you have to make 96!) then add in any extras such as boxes and ribbon and your estimated time on that order and you are done. You get a price that adds all this up, so you can see clearly what you need to charge to ensure you are not out of pocket. Yes it really is that easy! Pricing your cakes and cupcakes has never been easier with Cost A Cake Pro, the #1 Food & Drink app, only from The Cake Makery.

About

Spec App

This app connects establishment staff and managers to their food and beverage programs. Access recipes, menus, and product information to ensure consistency and quality.

Highlights
  • Establishment connection
  • Recipe access
  • Menu management
  • Product information
  • Consistency and quality assurance
Features
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Spec App is a free app for managers and staff to connect to their Spec-powered establishment. Access your establishment's recipes, menus, and products. Spec ensures access, consistency, and quality for your food and beverage program.

Screenshots

Cost A Cake Pro4 screens
Spec App4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Spec App at 100% against Cost A Cake Pro's 44%. Spec App also leads on price (Free vs $4.99) and rating (5.0 vs 2.3). Cost A Cake Pro's advantage is chart position (#104 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On ratings volume, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Spec App is free to download; Cost A Cake Pro costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spec App holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Cost A Cake Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Spec App's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cost A Cake Pro ships an update every 6 weeks, Spec App every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Cost A Cake Pro versus Spec App: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCost A Cake ProSpec App
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating2.3 (15 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews43.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#104 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB52 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFlame Red ProductionsSpec Software, LLC

Customer experience

Cost A Cake Pro

All ratings15 ratings
Positive20.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative60.0%
Written reviews105 reviews
Positive43.8%
Neutral18.1%
Negative38.1%

Spec App

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cost A Cake Pro

No in-app purchases

None

Spec App

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cost A Cake Pro free?
Cost A Cake Pro costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spec App free?
Spec App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cost A Cake Pro or Spec App?
Spec App is rated higher. Cost A Cake Pro averages 2.3 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Spec App averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Cost A Cake Pro or Spec App have ads?
Neither Cost A Cake Pro nor Spec App shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cost A Cake Pro or Spec App?
Cost A Cake Pro ships an update every 6 weeks, and Spec App every 2 months. Most recently, Cost A Cake Pro was updated on October 18, 2026 and Spec App on September 24, 2026.

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