Comparison

Bake Master vs Baker's Percentage Notebook

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

Head to head
About

Bake Master

This app simplifies baking calculations, offering baker's percentages, pan scaling, and ingredient cost tracking. Organize recipes, manage inventory, and share formulas with ease, all while working offline. Perfect for home bakers and professionals seeking precision.

Highlights
  • Baker's percentage calculations
  • Ingredient cost and inventory management
  • Recipe saving and organization by category
  • Flexible pan scaling
  • Multi-stage recipe management
  • Recipe sharing
  • Offline access
Features
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Stop doing math in front of the oven. Bake Master does the baking math for you. Write a formula in baker's percentages with flour at 100%, or just set a total dough weight like "4 kg today." Change either one and the rest of the numbers follow. [Included with the app] ■ Baker's percentage and total weight Enter ratios with flour at 100% and get weights. Set a total dough weight and it splits into ingredient weights at your ratios. Switch between ratio and total as often as you like — the math keeps up. ■ Pan conversion Calculates the volume of round, square and loaf pans and rescales the recipe. Standard pan presets for Korea, Japan, Europe and the US are built in. Fitting a 15 cm recipe into an 18 cm pan is no longer done by hand. ■ Save and organize recipes Keep every formula that worked. There is no limit on how many you save. Create categories like Bread, Cake and Cookies, then drag them into the order you want. Attach photos and see them as thumbnails in your recipe list. ■ Share a recipe Send a recipe as clean text, with ingredients, ratios and weights together. ■ Offline Everything is stored on your device, so it works in a kitchen with no signal. Dark Mode keeps it easy on the eyes at a dim workbench. [Premium — one-time purchase] ■ Multi-stage processes Write preferments like poolish and levain, the final dough and toppings as separate stages. Pull an earlier stage in as an ingredient and the amounts carry through automatically. ■ Ingredient cost Enter a price once and every recipe using that ingredient is costed. You see what one batch costs, which makes pricing straightforward. ■ Stock and produce Record stock and expiry dates for each ingredient. Open a recipe and it tells you how many you can make with what you have, then deducts what you produce. Ingredients running low or nearing their date are flagged. ■ Custom pans Save the pans you use often and load them instantly. ■ CSV backup Export and import recipes, ingredient costs and custom pans as CSV. They open in Excel or Numbers, and move with you to a new device. Premium is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Try it free for 72 hours first. [Made for] Home bakers who reach for a calculator every time a recipe scales Culinary students redoing formulas each time the pan changes Sourdough and baguette bakers working with preferments Studio and café owners tracking daily output and cost together

About

Baker's Percentage Notebook

Features
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Ever changed your flour amount mid-recipe and had to redo every other ingredient by hand? Or needed to fit a recipe into a different pan and had no idea how much to scale it? Baker's Percentage Notebook handles both, so the math never gets between you and the dough. ■ Baker's percentage, both directions Set your flour as 100% and track every other ingredient as a percentage of it. Change the flour amount from 300g to 450g and every ratio stays exactly the same — scaling a recipe up or down is instant. ■ Back-calculate from what you have on hand "I have 250g of water and want 70% hydration — how much flour do I need?" Enter the ingredient weight and its baker's percentage, and the app calculates the flour amount for you. ■ Scale to a different pan (round, square, or loaf) Enter the dimensions of your current pan and the pan you want to bake in — in cm or inches — and the recipe scales automatically based on the volume ratio between them. ■ Hydration at a glance Every liquid ingredient (water, milk, and more) is totaled automatically into a hydration percentage, shown right on the main screen. ■ Save your recipes Save a formula with a name and a note, then load it back anytime and adjust it for the day's flour amount or pan (3 free, unlimited with Premium). ■ Premium (one-time purchase) • Unlimited recipe saves, with notes • Custom ingredient names and non-wheat bases (rice flour, whole wheat, and more) • Zero ads on every plan — this was already true for free, Premium doesn't change it ■ Built to be trusted • No ads, ever — nothing gets in the way of your baking math • Fully offline. Every recipe you enter stays on your device and is never sent anywhere • One-time purchase. No subscriptions, no recurring charges

Screenshots

Bake Master4 screens
Baker's Percentage Notebook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Baker's Percentage Notebook at Free against Bake Master's $2.99. Baker's Percentage Notebook also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Bake Master's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Baker's Percentage Notebook is free to download; Bake Master costs $2.99 up front. Bake Master sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Baker's Percentage Notebook asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bake Master ships an update every 6 days, Baker's Percentage Notebook monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Bake Master versus Baker's Percentage Notebook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBake MasterBaker's Percentage Notebook
Price$2.99Free — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMoonsoo KimMASAKI CHIBA

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Bake Master

One-time1
  • Premium$5.99
None

Baker's Percentage Notebook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bake Master free?
Bake Master costs $2.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Baker's Percentage Notebook free?
Baker's Percentage Notebook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bake Master or Baker's Percentage Notebook have ads?
Neither Bake Master nor Baker's Percentage Notebook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bake Master or Baker's Percentage Notebook?
Bake Master ships an update every 6 days, and Baker's Percentage Notebook monthly. Most recently, Bake Master was updated on November 5, 2026 and Baker's Percentage Notebook on October 28, 2026.

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