Bread Diary vs Bake Book
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bread Diary
This app helps bread enthusiasts manage their recipes and streamline the baking process. It allows users to search ingredients, create and save custom recipes, and automatically calculate baker's percentages. Users can also adjust ingredient quantities for different pan sizes and record their bakes with ratings.
- Recipe management
- Ingredient search
- Baker's percentage calculation
- Quantity adjustment for pan sizes
- Bake recording and rating
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“Bread Diary” is a baking journal made for bread lovers. Manage your bread recipes and simplify the tedious prep process of calculating ingredient ratios every time. - Search ingredients and create & save recipes - Calculate baker’s percentages based on flour weight - Adjust ingredient quantities when changing pan sizes - Record your bakes and leave ratings ■ BakingClub subscription - Subscription: BakingClub (auto-renewing, 1 month) - Benefits: unlimited recipe imports and ad-free importing - Price: shown on the subscription screen in the app and on the App Store purchase sheet. - Your subscription renews automatically and your App Store account is charged the same amount unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. You can cancel any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://bread-diary.karrot42.com/en/terms Privacy Policy: https://bread-diary.karrot42.com/en/privacy
Bake Book
Record your baking creations with photos, notes, and tags. Organize your favorite recipes and track your baking history with a visual calendar. Includes helpful conversion tools for ingredients and temperatures.
- Log bakes with photos and notes
- Save and organize favorite recipes
- Visual baking history calendar
- Ingredient and temperature converters
- Tag bakes with success/failure notes
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Hello, baker! Welcome to Bake Book. Bake Book is where your baking lives. A home where you can log every bake, save your favorite recipes, and keep a visual record of everything you've ever made. Snap a photo. Jot a note. Tag what worked and what didn't. Whether you're new to home baking or you're a semi-pro, Bake Book makes every bake worth remembering. Features • Log every bake with photos, notes, tags, and bake dates • Recipe library to save and organize your favorite recipes • Calendar view for a look back at your baking history • Ingredient and temperature converting tools • Available in English and Korean More to come!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bake Book at none against Bread Diary's 2. Bake Book also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days). Bread Diary's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. Bread Diary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Bake Book asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bread Diary against 5.0 for Bake Book. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Bread Diary ships an update every 10 days, Bake Book every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bread Diary | Bake Book |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | sanguk park | Song Park |
Customer experience
Bread Diary
Bake Book
In-app purchases
Bread Diary
- Baking Club 1month$3.991 Month
- Baking Club 1year$39.991 Year
Bake Book
No in-app purchases
