Homebaker vs The Cellar Schematic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Homebaker
This app helps home bakers track bread recipes and baking sessions. It allows users to create custom recipes, log detailed session notes with timings and photos, and manage sourdough starters. Push notifications remind users of important steps and feeding times.
- Create custom bread recipes
- Log detailed baking sessions with photos
- Automatic baker's percentage calculation
- Manage sourdough starter activity
- Step-by-step baking session tracking
- Push notification reminders
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Perfect your bread baking with Homebaker, the bread baking notes app for home bakers that want to keep track of their bread recipes and baking sessions. Whether you're just beginning your baking journey or you're a seasoned bread baker, Homebaker offers seamless tools to: - Perfect your recipes: Create your own bread baking recipes by adding your preferment, dough and non-dough ingredients, as well as detailed recipe steps. Homebaker automatically calculates baker's percentages and hydration. Use recipes as templates to pre-fill your baking sessions. You can also share your recipes with fellow bakers using a public link. - Log your baking sessions: Record every step of your baking sessions with detailed timings, descriptions, metadata (such as temperatures) and pictures. Review past sessions and refine your techniques for perfect results every time. - Step by step precision: Never forget to add salt again. Mark baking steps as done to keep track of where you are in a baking session. - Manage your sourdough starters: log your starter's activity and schedule feeding notifications - Get notified: Get notified with push notifications when step timers are completed in your baking session or when it's time to check on your sourdough starter. - Stay synced: With the Pro version (requires paid subscription) โ access Homebaker from any device, including desktops, via our web app. A subscription to Homebaker Pro is optional and can be purchased in-app to unlock the following features: - Unlimited creation of recipes: In the free version of Homebaker the number of recipes you can create is limited. Upgrade to Pro to create as many recipes as you want, which also can be used as templates for your baking sessions - Access to the Homebaker web app: Your recipes and sessions get synced with your Homebaker account and can be accessed in the browser via the web app. This makes it easy to manage your baking notes on desktop devices. Subscriptions will be automatically renewed and charged on a monthly basis. You can cancel anytime in your iTunes account settings. You can find the Terms of Use (EULA) here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy policy: https://www.homebaker.app/privacy Support: https://www.homebaker.app/support
The Cellar Schematic
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The Cellar Schematic is a modern cellar book for people who care about what's in the glass. Add bottles two ways: scan a label, or type a wine in when the bottle isn't in front of you. Every field is editable whichever way you choose. On an iPhone or iPad that supports Apple Intelligence, scanning a label works with nothing connected at all โ and the photograph never leaves your device. SCANNING, WITH NOTHING CONNECTED The app reads the label on the device itself โ producer, wine, vintage, region, appellation, grape and alcohol, wherever the bottle prints them. The region is matched against a built-in atlas of 834 wine regions under 7,060 names, so the words on the bottle are what place it. Where Apple's private cloud is available, what the label leaves off โ the region a producer works in, the grape, the color โ is filled in from Apple's own knowledge, at no cost to you. ADD WITHOUT THE BOTTLE Some wine you never hold before it's yours โ delivered straight to storage, bought en primeur, or kept by a friend. Tap + and type it in: producer, wine and vintage are enough, and where Apple's private cloud is available the region, grape and color are filled in for you. DRINKING WINDOWS Know when to drink your wine. Each bottle is classified Hold, Drink Now, Drink Soon or Past Peak โ set it yourself, or connect an OpenAI account and the window behind it is estimated for you. THE VIRTUAL SOMMELIER (optional AI feature) Ask what to open tonight, what pairs with the salmon, or which bottles are ready now. Recommendations come from your own cellar, not a generic database. THE VIRTUAL CONCIERGE (optional AI feature) Tap and ask. The Concierge answers questions about the app itself, in plain language, so you spend your time pouring rather than reading manuals. WHERE TO BUY (optional AI feature) Find current retailers for any wine near you, in your local currency. Discover similar bottles when the one you want isn't available, or source a whole buying list from one or two retailers in a single sweep. THE CELLAR SCHEMATIC A signature radial diagram โ five rings for category, drinkability, vintage, grape and country โ that turns your collection into a single, considered image. Shareable, anonymized, and unmistakably yours. The Plans show not what you hold but where it lies: each storage area drawn to plan, a circle for every bottle exactly where it sits. And a world map that plots your cellar rather than listing it โ each mark a region you hold, sized by the bottles in it. A SHARED CELLAR Invite a partner, a household, or a tasting circle to one cellar via iCloud. Add and update bottles together. Everyone sees the same shelves, in real time. ALSO INSIDE Tasting notes, personal ratings, food pairings and critics' summaries The Vault โ keeps reserve bottles out of everyday recommendations The Buying List โ flag bottles you want and source them together Store a bottle in more than one location, with a per-location breakdown Search and filter by color, region, grape, location or drinkability Import existing cellars from Vivino or CellarTracker exports Dark and light appearance Ready for iPhone Duo โ held open sideways, the bottle sits beside its details OPTIONAL AI Tasting notes, critics' summaries, drinking windows, label images, the Sommelier, the Concierge and the buying tools run on your own OpenAI account. Setup is one-time and guided step by step inside the app. No app subscription, no markup: you pay OpenAI directly for what you use, typically a fraction of a cent per question. Your key stays in your device's Keychain and your requests go straight to OpenAI โ never through us. It is entirely optional: scanning, the Plans, the Schematic, the world map, drinking windows, sharing, search, filters and imports all work with no AI account at all. YOUR CELLAR, YOUR ICLOUD Future updates are included. Your cellar lives in your own iCloud account, not on our servers โ your collection stays yours, on devices you own.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Homebaker at Free against The Cellar Schematic's $14.99. Homebaker also leads on iOS requirement (14.0.0 vs 26.4). The Cellar Schematic's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On device support there is nothing between them.
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Homebaker is free to download; The Cellar Schematic costs $14.99 up front. Homebaker sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. The Cellar Schematic asks for nothing beyond the download.
Homebaker ships an update fortnightly, The Cellar Schematic every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Homebaker | The Cellar Schematic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free โ better | $14.99 |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | โ |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 5 days โ better |
| Ads | Yes | No โ better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | โ |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0.0 โ better | 26.4 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | SIMON RAYMOND SCHOEN | MILLAR-YOUNG HOLDINGS PTY LIMITED |
In-app purchases
Homebaker
- Homebaker Pro$1.991 Month
The Cellar Schematic
No in-app purchases
Questions
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