Baker's Friend vs KneadNotes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
KneadNotes
Track your bread baking process, manage your sourdough starter, and share your creations. Learn from each bake to improve your results, with guided sessions and recipe templates.
- Log bake details (flour, hydration, percentages)
- Track starter activity and feeding schedules
- Attach photos to document bakes
- Guided baking sessions with timers
- Generate and share bake cards
- Cloud backup and sync
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Become a better sourdough baker. KneadNotes is the baking journal that helps you track every loaf, manage your starter, and finally bake consistent bread — then share your best results. Most baking apps hand you a recipe. KneadNotes helps you learn from your own bakes, so each loaf is better than the last. Sourdough, yeasted loaves, focaccia, enriched breads, bagels, pizza dough — if you bake it, you can track it. TRACK EVERY BAKE - Log flour types, hydration, and baker's percentages - Record fermentation times, oven temps, and bake duration - Fahrenheit or Celsius on every field - Rate each bake and add detailed notes - Attach photos to document your crumb, crust, and scoring MASTER YOUR STARTER - Track starters with hydration levels and health status - Feeding reminders so you never miss a feed - Full feeding history and activity logs - Archive dormant starters without losing data SHARE YOUR BEST LOAVES - Generate beautiful bake cards with your stats and photo - Share straight to Messages, Instagram, or your camera roll BAKE WITH GUIDANCE - Built-in recipe templates by type and difficulty - Step-by-step guided sessions with smart background timers - Mark favorites and re-bake a recipe in one tap EVERYTHING SYNCED & PRIVATE - Automatic cloud backup and sync across devices - Sign in with Apple or email + Face ID - The developer does not collect your data Free to start. Premium unlocks unlimited bakes, starters, favorites, the full recipe library, multiple simultaneous sessions, and one-tap re-bakes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Baker's Friend at none against KneadNotes's 2. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. KneadNotes sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Baker's Friend asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Baker's Friend against 5.0 for KneadNotes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Baker's Friend | KneadNotes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | — | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.4 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dan Levin | Think Up! LLC |
In-app purchases
Baker's Friend
No in-app purchases
KneadNotes
- Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Premium Annual$19.991 Year









