Salt & Straw vs Baking Journal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Salt & Straw
This app enhances your ice cream experience by rewarding loyalty. Earn points for every dollar spent to redeem for free cones, scoops, and discounts. You can also order ahead for quick pickup and reorder favorites with ease.
- Earn points on purchases
- Redeem for free cones and scoops
- Order ahead for pickup
- Birthday discounts
- One-tap reordering
- Share feedback
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Welcome to Salt & Straw Loyalty Craft Made. Curiously Delicious Ice Cream. Our loyalty program is here to make your ice cream runs even more magical. Earn 1 point for every $1 you spend and unlock delicious rewards—like free waffle cones, scoops, birthday cake discounts, and surprise offers you won’t want to miss. Here’s what you get with the app: Tasty Rewards – Turn every purchase into points and cash them in for cones, scoops, and more. Order Ahead – Order your scoops and pay right in the app. Pickup your prepaid order directly from the pint freezer. Celebrate You – Get $10 off any ice cream cake on your birthday. One-Tap Reordering – Got a favorite? Reorder it in seconds. Tell Us Everything – Share your thoughts with a tap and help us get better with every scoop. Terms & conditions apply. We’re Salt & Straw. We make ice cream with big heart, using ingredients that tell a story. There’s something new every month, so keep your spoon ready.
Baking Journal
Easily manage all your baking projects with this app. Build recipes with detailed instructions, track individual bakes, and note what worked and what didn't. Share your baking data across multiple devices.
- Recipe building with ingredients and instructions
- Hydration percentage calculation
- Individual bake tracking
- Notes on bake outcomes and changes
- Cross-device data sharing
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Manage all of your baking projects in one app. The Baking Journal app makes it easy. * Build your recipes, with ingredients, notes, and step-by-step instructions. It will even calculate Hydration percentages for you! * Track each individual bake for a recipe. Record start and end times, remember which steps you have completed (or which you’ve decided to skip), and take notes on what went right, what went wrong, and what you changed each time. * Share your data across multiple devices. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.zmosoft.com/privacy-policy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Salt & Straw at none against Baking Journal's 2. Salt & Straw also leads on ratings volume (442 vs 1). Baking Journal's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs fortnightly). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Baking Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Salt & Straw asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Salt & Straw against 5.0 for Baking Journal. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Salt & Straw has 442 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Salt & Straw ships an update fortnightly, Baking Journal every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Salt & Straw | Baking Journal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (442 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 44.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 442 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Salt & Straw, LLC | ZMo Software |
Customer experience
Salt & Straw
Baking Journal
In-app purchases
Salt & Straw
No in-app purchases
Baking Journal
- Baking Journal Premium$4.991 Month
- Baking Journal Premium$39.991 Year
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