Bread Diary vs Baker's Note
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
Baker's Note
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Baker's Note is a simple recipe notebook for home and artisan bread bakers. Create and organize your bread recipes with ingredients, baker's percentages, baking temperatures, notes, and photos—all in one place. Scale any recipe instantly by flour weight or loaf count, so you can adjust formulas without doing the math yourself. Whether you're baking sourdough, baguettes, sandwich bread, focaccia, bagels, or other artisan breads, Baker's Note helps you keep every recipe organized and easy to revisit. [Features] • Organize recipes by category • Calculate baker's percentages automatically • Support for levain, poolish, biga, and other preferments • Scale recipes by flour weight or number of loaves • Record baking temperatures and multiple baking stages • Save notes, tips, and photos for every recipe • Share beautiful recipe cards with others • Customize font size for comfortable reading [Baker's Note Plus] Upgrade with a one-time purchase to: • Remove ads • Save unlimited recipes No subscriptions. Pay once and keep it forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Baker's Note at none against Bread Diary's shown. Baker's Note also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Bread Diary sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Baker's Note sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bread Diary ships an update every 10 days, Baker's Note every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bread Diary | Baker's Note |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 90 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | sanguk park | SangA Joo |
In-app purchases
Bread Diary
- Baking Club 1month$3.991 Month
- Baking Club 1year$39.991 Year
Baker's Note
- Baker’s Note Plus$3.99









