Comparison

Homebaker vs CrumbLog

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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) – 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

About

CrumbLog

Features
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CrumbLog is a baking log for sourdough. Log every loaf with its formula, folds, and proof times, rate the crumb, and compare your bakes to see the hydration that made your best. No account, no tracking. Everything lives on your device and in your private iCloud, and syncs across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. BAKER'S PERCENTAGES, DONE RIGHT Enter flour, water, starter, and salt in grams and CrumbLog folds the levain's own flour and water into the totals, so hydration and salt read true. Every bake shows its hydration, salt, and levain percentages. A BAKE LOG THAT REMEMBERS Autolyse, folds, bulk, final proof, bake time, and oven temperature on every loaf, with a crumb photo and a five star rating. The gallery becomes the visual record of your baking. BEST BAKE COMPARE CrumbLog plots hydration against the rating you gave each crumb, averages your rating by hydration band, and names the sweet spot. "What made my best crumb" gets an answer from your own loaves. RECIPE SCALING BY FLOUR WEIGHT Scale any formula to a new total flour, a target dough weight, or a number of loaves. Every ingredient moves together, so hydration and salt hold exactly. BAKE DAY TIMELINE Enter your step lengths and pick when to start or when the bread should come out of the oven. CrumbLog lays out autolyse, folds, shape, proof, preheat, and bake with a time on each step. STARTER FEEDING TRACKER Set your feed ratio and CrumbLog turns it into grams on the scale. Log every feeding with rise time and temperature, watch the age climb, and see when the next feeding is due. ON EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN CrumbLog syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud. The iPad layout sets the formula beside the process, with the compare charts side by side. FREE VS PRO Free includes 5 bakes with every tool: baker's percentages, recipe scaling, the bake day timeline, the crumb gallery, and the best bake compare. Pro unlocks unlimited bakes, starter feeding reminders, and exports: a printable recipe card PDF for any loaf and a CSV of every bake. Pro is offered as a monthly subscription, a yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock. The current price is shown in the app and on this page before you buy. CrumbLog is a baking log for your own records. Feed, bake, rate, compare. Pro subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions; cancellation applies at the end of the current period. Terms: Apple Standard EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Homebaker4 screens
CrumbLog4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: CrumbLog at none against Homebaker's shown. Homebaker's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0.0 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Homebaker sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month and CrumbLog sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Homebaker ships an update fortnightly, CrumbLog every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Homebaker versus CrumbLog: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHomebakerCrumbLog
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size52 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSIMON RAYMOND SCHOENInnovaLabWorks

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Homebaker

Subscriptions1
  • Homebaker Pro$1.991 Month
3 purchases

CrumbLog

Subscriptions2
  • CrumbLog Pro$5.991 Month
  • CrumbLog Pro$34.991 Year
One-time1
  • CrumbLog Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Homebaker free?
Homebaker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is CrumbLog free?
CrumbLog is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Homebaker or CrumbLog have ads?
Homebaker shows ads; CrumbLog does not.
Which is updated more often, Homebaker or CrumbLog?
Homebaker ships an update fortnightly, and CrumbLog every 9 days. Most recently, Homebaker was updated on October 24, 2026 and CrumbLog on October 13, 2026.

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