Comparison

Artisan Bread Maker vs Rise

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

Head to head
About

Artisan Bread Maker

This app allows experienced bakers to meticulously record, edit, and scale their unique bread recipes. Track detailed notes, photos of your creations, and rate your bakes. Share your culinary masterpieces with others via email or export them to a compatible device.

Highlights
  • Enter new recipes
  • Edit existing recipes
  • Scale recipes for different quantities
  • Display percentages and hydration rates
  • Store baking notes and photos
  • Rate bread recipes
  • Email and export recipes
Features
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For the artisan bread maker wanting to track the details of his artistry. Please Note: This is not a compendium of existing bread recipes! It does enable the accomplished baker to: •Enter new recipes •Edit Recipes •Create new recipes using existing ones as a template •Scale recipes for various quantities of finished product •Display percentages and hydration rates •Store and display baking notes •Take and store photos of the breads and their “crumb” •Rate bread recipes •Email recipes to others •Sort recipes by date, name, and rating •Export a bread recipe to an iPad running its Artisan Bread app

About

Rise

This app is a comprehensive tool for bread baking enthusiasts, offering curated recipes, advanced editing capabilities, and intelligent scheduling. It helps users plan, track, and perfect their bakes with features like recipe import, custom creation, and dynamic rise time calculations. Users can also journal their baking experiences and share creations with others.

Highlights
  • Curated and customizable recipes
  • Magic recipe import from websites/photos
  • Intuitive recipe creation tools
  • Dynamic rise time scheduling
  • Baking journal with notes and photos
  • Recipe and bake sharing
  • Helpful baking articles and resources
Features
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Rise is devoted to every aspect of making yummy bread! It includes great recipes, makes planning & scheduling easy, and serves as a baking journal. Rise syncs across all of your devices and supports sharing recipes with others. Rise has everything you need to bake bread for both beginners and experts. Beginners can use our easy to follow recipes and articles, while experts can use Rise’s powerful editing tools to perfect their bread. Rise helps you plan your recipe with a schedule overview from start to finish, so you know exactly when you’ll perform each step at a glance. Schedule notifications alert you when it’s time to complete each task. Rise even takes the guesswork out of fermentation by dynamically calculating bulk rise and proof times using your dough’s temperature and ingredients. FEATURED RECIPES • Recipes created in-house, from our favorite bakers, and from the community • Easily customize any recipe before making by adjusting weight, hydration, and yield MAGIC IMPORT • Import recipes from any website, photos, or from your own text • Our AI scans the recipe and imports all ingredients & steps in the Rise format • Describe changes to any recipe and our AI will make a new one with those changes! CREATE YOUR OWN RECIPES • Add your own recipes to Rise using its intuitive card-based interface • Ingredients can be adjusted by total weight, yield, or baker’s percentages • Each step card can have any number of tasks, timers, and other useful widgets SCHEDULING & MAKING • Rise makes following a recipe’s schedule a breeze, and even handles multi-day recipes • The Overview screen shows a recipe’s entire schedule from start to finish • Get reminder notifications when it’s time to move to the next step or task, or when a timer is up • Use Magic Rise Time widgets to schedule the bulk and proof phases automatically, based on the temperature and ingredients of your dough. For proofing, you can even decide to refrigerate overnight • Flexible scheduling means you can finish a step early, back up a step, or add more time if needed JOURNALING • The My Rises tab gives you a thorough history of your sourdough adventure, with each item representing one single baking experience • Each rise has a Journal section for you to add notes and observations about each bake • Take photos of your process and the final product for sharing or browsing later SHARING • Share any rise or recipe you’ve made with others! Just turn on Sharing to get a short URL that you can share with friends or post online • The shared web page shows your ingredients, method, and photos, so you can share entire recipes with anyone! Others can import your recipe into Rise right from the same page • Share recipes with the community and they'll show up in the Featured tab for everyone to enjoy! RESOURCES Rise includes helpful articles and references for things like sourdough starter care, folding & shaping techniques, gear to get you started, and more UTILITIES • Starter Feed Reminders: Get notified when it’s time to feed your starter • Rise Times: Calculate ideal rise times based on temperature, starter percentage, hydration, and salt content • Hydration: Calculate hydration (both baker’s and “true”) along with baker’s percentages for all ingredients • Desired Dough Temperature: We include both the traditional formula and our own custom formula which is 12x more accurate • Unit Converter: Convert between weight and volume for common ingredient types • Rise Factor: Represents how much your bread rose while baking using a single number. Noting the rise factor for each loaf is a great way to track your improvement CLOUD SYNC Seamlessly sync across all your iPad & iPhone devices, even when making! FREE & PAID OPTIONS Rise is free with limited access to recipes and features. Unlock all recipes with flexible purchase options. Privacy policy and Terms of Use: http://bakewithrise.com/privacy/index.html

Screenshots

Artisan Bread Maker4 screens
Rise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Rise at 4.9 against Artisan Bread Maker's 3.5. Rise also leads on review sentiment (90% vs 68%) and ratings volume (336 vs 10). Artisan Bread Maker's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads 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. Rise sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Artisan Bread Maker asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Rise holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rise has 336 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Artisan Bread Maker's written reviews are positive against 90% of Rise's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Artisan Bread Maker ships an update every 4 months, Rise every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Artisan Bread Maker versus Rise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArtisan Bread MakerRise
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (10 ratings)4.9 (336 ratings) — better
Positive reviews67.9% of reviews89.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10336 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJacqueline GhosinMade by Windmill, LLC

Customer experience

Artisan Bread Maker

All ratings10 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive67.9%
Neutral17.9%
Negative14.3%

Rise

All ratings336 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral0.6%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive89.7%
Neutral1.7%
Negative8.6%

Bugs and requests

Artisan Bread Maker

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Rise

Reported bugs

11 issues
  • Text constantly deletes itself
  • Text in recipe steps covered by UI
  • Ingredients list resets itself
  • Scaling recipes does not work as intended
  • App idles without loading
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  • App quits in the middle of steps
  • Cannot enter tsp amounts smaller than 1/2 tsp
  • Notes added on one device are overwritten on another
  • Custom recipe ingredient amounts change slightly when baking
  • Smart DDT calculator may have errors
  • Notification alarms not received

Requested features

8 requests
  • Export/import recipes
  • Widgets for home/lock screen
  • Timer pause function
  • Ability to share community recipes
  • Separate ingredient sections for levain and dough
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  • End time scheduling for recipes
  • Support for BBGA formulas
  • Ability to run multiple recipes simultaneously

In-app purchases

None

Artisan Bread Maker

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Rise

Subscriptions5
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • 3 Month Subscription7 Days trial$8.993 Months
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  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • One time purchase2 variants$19.99
  • One time purchase$34.99

Questions

Is Artisan Bread Maker free?
Artisan Bread Maker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Rise free?
Rise is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Artisan Bread Maker or Rise?
Rise is rated higher. Artisan Bread Maker averages 3.5 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Rise averages 4.9 from 336 ratings.
Do Artisan Bread Maker or Rise have ads?
Neither Artisan Bread Maker nor Rise shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Artisan Bread Maker or Rise?
Artisan Bread Maker ships an update every 4 months, and Rise every 5 weeks. Most recently, Artisan Bread Maker was updated on September 30, 2026 and Rise on October 25, 2026.

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