Comparison

Cost A Cake Pro vs Bake

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
Currently charting
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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

Bake

This app simplifies baking by allowing you to scale recipes, adapt to missing ingredients, and convert units. It also offers nutrition estimation and custom timers to help you achieve perfect results.

Highlights
  • Scale recipes up or down
  • Adapt to missing ingredients
  • Convert units (volume, mass, temp)
  • Estimate nutrition and calories
  • Create and manage recipes
  • Set custom baking timers
Features
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Bake-u-lator is your all-in-one baking calculator, recipe adjuster, and kitchen toolkit. Quickly scale recipes up or down, adapt to missing ingredients, convert units with ease, and keep track of your bake times—all in one simple app. Limiting Ingredient Calculator - Out of flour? Low on eggs? Enter what you do have, and Bake-u-lator automatically recalculates the recipe using proportional amounts of each ingredient. Yield Calculator - Need 14 cupcakes instead of 10? Want to halve a recipe? Instantly scale any recipe to match your desired yield. Nutrition Calculator - Estimate the calories and macronutrients in your baked goods using ingredient-level nutrition breakdowns. Unit Converters - Effortlessly convert volume, mass, and temperature values to keep every measurement accurate. Recipes - Create recipes by manually entering ingredients, scanning recipes with your camera, or importing photos. Custom Timers - Create and run multiple baking timers to stay on track from prep to finish. Whether you’re adjusting recipes on the fly or planning your next bake with precision, Bake-u-lator helps you get it just right. Happy baking! The app and all in-app purchases and subscriptions are licensed under the standard Apple terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

Cost A Cake Pro4 screens
Bake4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bake at Free against Cost A Cake Pro's $4.99. Bake also leads on rating (4.5 vs 2.3) and review sentiment (71% vs 44%). Cost A Cake Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#99 vs unranked). 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

Bake is free to download; Cost A Cake Pro costs $4.99 up front. Bake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Cost A Cake Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bake holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bake has 184 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 44% of Cost A Cake Pro's written reviews are positive against 71% of Bake's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cost A Cake Pro ships an update every 6 weeks, Bake every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 2 level
Cost A Cake Pro versus Bake: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCost A Cake ProBake
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating2.3 (15 ratings)4.5 (184 ratings) — better
Positive reviews43.8% of reviews70.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings15184 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#99 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB36 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFlame Red ProductionsMarco Contino

Customer experience

Cost A Cake Pro

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

Bake

All ratings184 ratings
Positive88.6%
Neutral3.3%
Negative8.2%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive70.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative29.4%

In-app purchases

None

Cost A Cake Pro

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Bake

Subscriptions1
  • Bake-u-lator Pro$0.991 Month
One-time1
  • Bake-u-lator Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Cost A Cake Pro free?
Cost A Cake Pro costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bake free?
Bake is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cost A Cake Pro or Bake?
Bake is rated higher. Cost A Cake Pro averages 2.3 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Bake averages 4.5 from 184 ratings.
Do Cost A Cake Pro or Bake have ads?
Neither Cost A Cake Pro nor Bake shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cost A Cake Pro or Bake?
Cost A Cake Pro ships an update every 6 weeks, and Bake every 2 weeks. Most recently, Cost A Cake Pro was updated on October 18, 2026 and Bake on October 21, 2026.

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