Bakedown vs Recipe Costs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bakedown
Effortlessly import, organize, and customize your favorite baking recipes from the web or by scanning photos. Focus on the joy of baking with clean, clutter-free instructions and a "Bake Mode" to keep your screen active. AI-powered shortening provides concise steps.
- Import recipes from web URLs
- Scan and extract recipes from photos
- Organize recipes into custom books
- AI-powered recipe shortening
- Bake Mode to keep screen awake
- Instant sharing from browser
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Bake Smarter with Bakedown Streamline your baking experience with Bakedown! Import, organize, and customize your favorite pastry recipes—whether from the web or a photo—so you can focus on the joy of baking, not scrolling through ads. Bakedown removes the clutter so you can work with clean recipes. It's like magic! Import Baking Recipes Effortlessly Paste any recipe URL, and Bakedown extracts just the ingredients and instructions. No more wading through blog posts, ads, or long intros—just the details you need to get baking. Snap & Save Recipes with Your Camera Found a recipe in a book or on packaging? Use your phone’s camera to scan and extract the recipe. The app intelligently identifies ingredients and steps, making it easy to add new finds to your collection. Create & Organize Recipe Books Save all your recipes into custom baking books—whether for cakes, breads, or decadent pastries. Easily add recipes to multiple books, search by title, and create as many collections as you like. Instant Recipe Sharing from the Browser No need to copy and paste! While browsing, click the share icon and tap “Bakedown” to instantly import ingredients and instructions. Perfect for baking blogs and recipe sites. Bake Mode: Keep Your Screen On Say goodbye to your phone turning off mid-recipe! Activate Bake Mode to keep your screen awake while you work through each step. AI-Powered Recipe Shortener Get straight to the point with our AI feature. Condense lengthy instructions into clear, concise steps without losing the essence of the original. You can always tap to reference the original wording. Supports Popular Baking Sites We’ve tailored our algorithm for baking lovers! Seamlessly import recipes from these sites (and many others): • The New York Times Cooking • Sally’s Baking Addiction • Bon Appétit • Martha Stewart • Food Network • AllRecipes • The Cakeculator • Delish • Southern Living • Pillsbury • King Arthur Baking Let Bakedown declutter your recipes and free up your time so you can get back to what you love doing! Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Recipe Costs
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Know what every bake costs you — and charge what you’re worth. Recipe Costs turns what you actually pay — for the butter, for the boxes, for your own time — into two numbers you can trust: what a batch really costs, and what to charge for it. Built for home bakers, cottage food sellers, caterers, food trucks and small bakeries. THE MATH OTHER APPS GET WRONG • Margin and markup, side by side. A 200% markup is not 200% profit. You see both on every recipe, labeled correctly, so you never price off the wrong one. • Your time is in the cost. Active and passive minutes at your hourly rate — and a plain sentence telling you what you’re earning an hour on this bake, before you agree to it. • Cups to grams, properly. 180 items come loaded with densities and piece weights, so “1 cup of flour” and “2 eggs” just work. • Packaging, overhead, waste and card fees each get their own line — not one vague “extra %”. PRICE IT FOUR WAYS Markup on cost, a target margin, a target food-cost %, or a fixed price that shows you the margin you just accepted. Each one is explained in a single line, and a slider rounds to whatever you like — including .99. SELL IT HOWEVER YOU SELL IT One recipe, priced as a whole cake, a slice, a half dozen, a dozen or by weight, each with its own packaging and rounding. See what’s actually left after Etsy, Square or the market take their cut. WHEN COSTS MOVE, YOU’LL KNOW Every ingredient keeps its price history. Change what you paid for butter and every recipe follows — with a list of which ones just fell below your target margin, and by how much. QUOTE IT, BOOK IT, BAKE IT Turn a priced recipe into a quote, a confirmed order and a reminder. Customers, due dates, deposits, delivery and rush fees, and a month’s revenue and profit at the end of it. Send branded PDF quotes, invoices, cost sheets and recipe cards with your logo on them. AND THE REST • A shopping list across every recipe and order, turned into packages to buy • Ingredient and allergen labels, sorted by weight the way cottage food rules ask • Scale a recipe to the pan you actually own, with a servings guide • Any currency, and US, metric, UK or Australian measures • Paste a recipe from anywhere — it reads the lines and matches the ingredients • Sub-recipes: frostings, doughs and fillings, down to half a batch YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS No ads. No tracking. No analytics, of any kind. Everything lives on your iPhone, backs itself up to your own iCloud Drive daily, and exports to CSV whenever you ask. Anything you delete waits 30 days in the trash. FREE, AND PRO Free, forever: 10 recipes, unlimited ingredients, the whole costing engine, every currency and measure, backup and export. The math and your data are never behind the paywall. Pro adds unlimited recipes, sub-recipes, sell formats and channel fees, the dashboard and price alerts, quotes and orders, branded PDFs, shopping lists, labels and pan tools. It’s $39.99 a year in the US — your store shows your own price — and it starts with a free week. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your App Store account settings. Terms of use: https://qrscanner.b-cdn.net/recipecosts/eula Privacy policy: https://qrscanner.b-cdn.net/recipecosts/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Bakedown at weekly against Recipe Costs's every 5 weeks. On price, ads, 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. Bakedown sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Recipe Costs sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $39.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bakedown ships an update weekly, Recipe Costs every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bakedown | Recipe Costs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 98 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joseph Muller | Kulwant Kaur |
In-app purchases
Bakedown
- Bakedown Premium3 Days trial2 variants$4.991 Month
- Bakedown Premium$19.991 Year
- Bakedown Premium$24.991 Year
Recipe Costs
- Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
- Lifetime$99.99









