Comparison

IceForm Pro vs Scoop

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

Head to head
About

IceForm Pro

This professional tool helps create, balance, and perfect recipes for ice cream, gelato, and ganache. It provides precise mathematical control over ingredients, texture, flavor, and cost, with detailed insights and visualization tools.

Highlights
  • Automatic recipe balancing
  • Ganache mode with specific metrics
  • Balance Radar visual assessment
  • Freezing curve visualization
  • Ingredient lock and precise rescaling
  • 300+ curated ingredient database
  • Cost and nutrition insights
  • US/EU nutrition label generator
Features
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We make ice cream ourselves, in our own production, since 2015. IceForm Pro is where we balance our own mixes, and where a recipe becomes a tech card, a label, a batch on the floor and a price you can defend. We share what we have learned here and grow the app alongside our lab. Before it we used spreadsheets and calculators that always missed something. Once that cost us a whole batch. Every mistake since has left a limit or a warning in this app. THE RECIPE EDITOR When a figure leaves its range, the editor tells you how to bring it back: how many grams of which ingredient to add or take out, and what else that move fixes or breaks. The one you pick is applied with a tap. Or press Balance, and the app works out the whole recipe at once, keeping the lines you lock and the limits you set. - The adaptive IceForm profile: MSNF, sugars and solids follow your fat, PAC and POD balance on their own. - 32 built-in profiles for gelato, ice cream, sorbet and more, or your own. - A serving goal, display case, pozzetto or freezer, and the PAC hint points the right way. - The draft writes itself, and every save is a version you can compare and go back to. WHAT YOU SEE PAC and POD, MSNF, hardening factor, frozen water at serving temperature, the freezing curve, overrun, coldness, scoopability and a balance radar. GANACHE Water activity, Brix, SFC at 20 and 28 ยฐC, pH, plastic range and shelf life. THE INGREDIENT STUDIO 340+ curated ingredients with full composition, sugars per USDA, PAC and POD worked out from what is in them. Import from USDA by name or barcode, or add your own in one editor. On Mac and iPad the library is a table that edits many ingredients at once. A finished recipe can become an ingredient in another. THE DAY ON THE FLOOR Home opens on what you were doing and what needs you. A batch runs as a shift with timers and readings. A recipe becomes products, pints, pans, cups, bars, each with its own pack, yield and price, and every lot carries the cost it was made at. WHAT IT COSTS AND EARNS Cost per litre, kilogram, scoop and piece, frozen into each batch the day it is made. Price and margin by channel after commission, break-even in portions a day, and the assortment split into stars, workhorses, puzzles and ballast. Eight reports, exported as a spreadsheet. THE ASSISTANT Ask in plain words, in any language. It drafts a recipe, rebalances one, or fills an ingredient from a name or a photo of its label. It proposes, you decide. You choose the AI provider: on this device, or in the cloud with your own account or key. iPhone, iPad and Mac, with iCloud sync. SUBSCRIPTION Balancing is free: the sample recipe, fully editable, the full read-out on anything you build, and one recipe and three ingredients of your own. Pro adds the ingredient library, USDA and barcode import, import and export, tech cards, the calculators and the assistant. Pro+ adds stock and orders, production, costing, prices and margins. New subscribers can try Pro free for 3 days or Pro+ for 2 weeks. If a subscription lapses, everything you made stays readable. PRIVACY Your recipes stay on your device and in your own iCloud. We never see them and train nothing on them. A cloud assistant sends your request to the provider you chose. Anonymous usage statistics can be turned off in Preferences. Terms of Use: https://iceform.pro/terms-and-service Privacy Policy: https://iceform.pro/privacy-policy

About

Scoop

Features
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Stop guessing. Start crafting. Scoop is the go-to app for anyone serious about making ice cream that tastes exactly the way it should. Whether you're a home artisan chasing the perfect gelato or a professional pastry chef scaling up production, Scoop gives you the precision tools to get every batch right. BUILD RECIPES YOU CAN TRUST Start from scratch or jump in with a curated base formula. Add ingredients in grams, name your creation, write notes, and attach a photo. Every detail lives in one place, beautifully organized and ready whenever you are. KNOW YOUR NUMBERS BEFORE YOU CHURN Ice cream is chemistry. Scoop does the math so you don't have to. The moment you add or adjust an ingredient, nine key metrics update instantly. AN INGREDIENT LIBRARY BUILT FOR ICE CREAM MAKERS Browse a comprehensive built-in database of ice cream ingredients, each loaded with full compositional data. Missing something? Add your own custom ingredients with the exact values your analysis needs. YOUR RECIPES, EVERYWHERE YOU ARE Everything syncs securely to the cloud. Sign in with Apple, Google, or email and pick up right where you left off on any device. The best scoop you've ever made is just one well calculated recipe away. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

IceForm Pro4 screens
Scoop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Scoop at 15.1 against IceForm Pro's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. IceForm Pro sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Scoop sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 7 level
IceForm Pro versus Scoop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterIceForm ProScoop
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews0.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size46 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMaksim VnukovFABIAN IWANECKI

In-app purchases

4 purchases

IceForm Pro

Subscriptions4
  • IceForm Pro Monthly3 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • IceForm Pro+ Monthly14 Days trial$19.991 Month
  • IceForm Pro Yearly3 Days trial$49.991 Year
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  • IceForm Pro+ Yearly14 Days trial$149.991 Year
2 purchases

Scoop

Subscriptions2
  • Scoop Pro Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Scoop Pro Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is IceForm Pro free?
IceForm Pro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scoop free?
Scoop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do IceForm Pro or Scoop have ads?
Neither IceForm Pro nor Scoop shows ads.

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