Comparison

Baking Journal vs Baker's Friend

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Recipe building with ingredients and instructions
  • Hydration percentage calculation
  • Individual bake tracking
  • Notes on bake outcomes and changes
  • Cross-device data sharing
Features
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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

About

Baker's Friend

This app helps bakers manage recipes, scale batches, and calculate precise water temperatures for consistent results. It integrates pre-ferments and automates complex calculations, allowing bakers to focus on flavor and texture.

Highlights
  • Recipe management with weights and percentages
  • Batch scaling by weight, item count, or multiplier
  • Water temperature calculator for desired dough temperature
  • Pre-ferment integration with automatic yeast calculation
  • Step-by-step instructions
Features
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Bake with precision — anywhere, anytime. Baker’s Friend is the all-in-one baking app for professionals and passionate home bakers. Manage recipes, scale batches, calculate exact water temperatures, and integrate pre-ferments — all from your iPhone. Whether you’re making artisan sourdough, scaling up for production, or fine-tuning fermentation, Baker’s Friend takes the math out of baking so you can focus on flavor, texture, and consistency. Key Features • Recipe Management – Create, edit, and duplicate recipes with ingredient weights, baker’s percentages, and step-by-step instructions. Auto-fill ingredients from your most-used items. • Recipe Scaling – Scale by Total Dough Weight, Number of Items (e.g., 17 rolls @ 75g, 35 buns @ 125g, 9 loaves @ 650g), or by Multiplier (2x, 3x, etc.). Maintain perfect ratios every time. • Water Temperature Calculator – Hit your Desired Dough Temperature (DDT) with precision by factoring in friction, room temperature, and all ingredients over 20% baker’s percentage. • Pre-ferment Integration – Add poolish, biga, levain, or pâte fermentée with exact hydration, percentage, and fermentation time. Automatically calculate yeast amounts and timing for poolish and biga. Why Bakers Love It • Save time with instant, accurate calculations • Keep recipes organized and accessible anywhere • Improve consistency from small test batches to full production runs • Control dough temperature for predictable fermentation • Perfectly balance pre-ferments without manual math Baker’s Friend brings professional baking precision to your pocket. Whether you run a bakery or bake at home, it helps you deliver consistently great results — every time. Download Baker’s Friend today and bake with confidence.

Screenshots

Baking Journal4 screens
Baker's Friend4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Baker's Friend at none against Baking Journal's 2. Baker's Friend also leads on ratings volume (3 vs 1). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Baking Journal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Baker's Friend asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Baking Journal against 5.0 for Baker's Friend. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Baking Journal versus Baker's Friend: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBaking JournalBaker's Friend
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.4
Further details — not scored
Size63 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZMo SoftwareDan Levin

Customer experience

Baking Journal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Baker's Friend

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Baking Journal

Subscriptions2
  • Baking Journal Premium$4.991 Month
  • Baking Journal Premium$39.991 Year
None

Baker's Friend

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Baking Journal free?
Baking Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Baker's Friend free?
Baker's Friend is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Baking Journal or Baker's Friend?
Baking Journal and Baker's Friend are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Baking Journal or Baker's Friend have ads?
Neither Baking Journal nor Baker's Friend shows ads.

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