Cost A Cake Pro vs Bake Margin
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Ingredient pantry management
- Recipe creation and storage
- Customizable extras for non-edible items
- Currency selection
- Detailed quote generation
- Support for various measurement units
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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.
Bake Margin
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Know what to charge. Protect every order's margin. BakeMargin is the pricing and order app for home bakers and small custom-cake businesses. Instead of guessing, you get a clear cost breakdown and a suggested price you can actually trust, so you stop undercharging and keep your profit. It works offline. No ads, no tracking, no account to create. Your recipes, customers, and orders live on your device. KNOW YOUR REAL COST Add ingredient prices, then let BakeMargin do the math. Density and unit conversions, waste percentage, labor, and overhead all roll into one honest cost per batch and per serving. GET A PRICE YOU CAN TRUST Set a target margin and see a suggested price, line by line. Every number is explained, so you can stand behind your quote. BUILD A PRODUCT CATALOG Save your cakes, cupcakes, and cookies as reusable priced products and drop them into any order in seconds. TAKE CUSTOM ORDERS THE RIGHT WAY Capture every request with a structured brief: event date, servings, flavors, allergies, and design notes. Nothing falls through the cracks. QUOTE, THEN INVOICE Turn a request into a branded PDF quote, then into an order and invoice. Send something that looks as professional as your bakes. CHARGE THE RIGHT TAX Save the taxes you charge, like GST, PST, VAT, or a state tax, and apply them to an order with a tap. An order can carry several at once, and each one prints on its own line so your customer sees exactly what they are paying. TRACK PAYMENTS AND BALANCES Log deposits, partial payments, balances due, and refunds. Manual cash and transfer payments always work offline. PLAN YOUR WEEK See every order on a baking calendar and get capacity warnings before you overbook. SHOP SMARTER Build a shopping list that subtracts what you already have in stock, so you only buy what an order really needs. SCAN A RECEIPT Snap a grocery receipt to update your ingredient prices and keep your costs current. SEE WHAT EARNS The profit dashboard shows revenue, cost, profit, and margin over time, plus your top earners, so you know which bakes are worth your time. BACK UP AND EXPORT Keep your data safe with backup and CSV export. FREE TO START Cost recipes, set prices, and run orders for free. An optional Pro upgrade unlocks deeper tools like the profit dashboard, the smart shopping list, and more PDF types. Eligible new subscribers can try Pro free for 3 days. PRIVACY FIRST Your bakery data stays on your device and works offline. App Store purchases are handled by Apple. Optional iCloud sync needs a network connection. Price every bake with confidence. Download BakeMargin and protect your margin on every order. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Bake Margin at Free against Cost A Cake Pro's $4.99. Cost A Cake Pro's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#98 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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
Bake Margin is free to download; Cost A Cake Pro costs $4.99 up front. Bake Margin sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Cost A Cake Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cost A Cake Pro ships an update every 6 weeks, Bake Margin every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cost A Cake Pro | Bake Margin |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 2.3 (15 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 43.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #98 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flame Red Productions | Jose Gerardo Palma Duran |
In-app purchases
Cost A Cake Pro
No in-app purchases
Bake Margin
- Pro Monthly$3.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$24.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$59.99









