Comparison

Bake Book vs LoafNote

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

Head to head
About

Bake Book

Record your baking creations with photos, notes, and tags. Organize your favorite recipes and track your baking history with a visual calendar. Includes helpful conversion tools for ingredients and temperatures.

Highlights
  • Log bakes with photos and notes
  • Save and organize favorite recipes
  • Visual baking history calendar
  • Ingredient and temperature converters
  • Tag bakes with success/failure notes
Features
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Hello, baker! Welcome to Bake Book. Bake Book is where your baking lives. A home where you can log every bake, save your favorite recipes, and keep a visual record of everything you've ever made. Snap a photo. Jot a note. Tag what worked and what didn't. Whether you're new to home baking or you're a semi-pro, Bake Book makes every bake worth remembering. Features • Log every bake with photos, notes, tags, and bake dates • Recipe library to save and organize your favorite recipes • Calendar view for a look back at your baking history • Ingredient and temperature converting tools • Available in English and Korean More to come!

About

LoafNote

This app helps sourdough bakers manage their starter, adjust bulk fermentation based on kitchen temperature, and plan bakes. It offers timed reminders, recipe import, and a built-in learning course for beginners.

Highlights
  • Starter care and health tracking
  • Temperature-adjusted bulk fermentation timing
  • Bake planning and backward scheduling
  • Recipe import from links, text, or photos
  • Timed step reminders
  • Bake logging and learning
  • Beginner sourdough course and glossary
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Sourdough runs on your kitchen's temperature, not the recipe writer's clock. Tell LoafNote when you want warm bread and it plans the whole bake backward from that moment, tuned to your kitchen and scheduled around your sleep. PLAN THE BAKE BACKWARD Pick a finish time. LoafNote works back through every step: when to feed, when to mix, when to shape, including cold proofs. If a schedule would have you folding dough at 3am, it bends the plan so the work lands while you're awake. When that isn't possible, it says so. BULK THAT WATCHES THE TEMPERATURE Tell LoafNote your kitchen temperature and it adjusts the bulk window with guidance for every rise along the way. YOUR STARTER, LOOKED AFTER Keep one starter or several. LoafNote tracks each feed and shows you at a glance whether a starter is hungry, rising, or at peak, so it's ready when you are. NO STARTER YET? MAKE ONE Mix flour and water and LoafNote takes it from there: what to feed each day, what the jar should look like, and why the quiet day 4 is normal. In about a week, a readiness check walks you through the signs that it can raise bread. A NUDGE WHEN IT'S TIME Start a bake and put the phone down. Step timers and reminders tell you when the dough needs you, and the current step sits on your lock screen with its countdown running. RUN MORE THAN ONE BAKE A boule for Saturday and a focaccia for tonight can run side by side. Each bake keeps its own timers and its own lock screen countdown, and Home lists every active bake in one place. When the day gets away from you, pause a step and resume when you're back at the counter. RECIPES WITHOUT THE SCROLLING Paste a link, paste text, or import from a photo. You get the ingredients and timed steps, with hydration and baker's percentages worked out with everything measured in grams. Your recipes stay on your phone forever and you can share them with friends with one tap! EVERY LOAF TEACHES THE NEXT Rate the crumb and note what you'd change. That note greets you the next time you start the same recipe. LEARN BEFORE BAKING New to sourdough? A built-in course walks you through the basics, and a glossary covers the terms bakers actually use. No question is too small. FREE FOR A MONTH Try everything free for a month. Long enough to wake a starter up and put a few real bakes behind you. After that, LoafNote is $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year, and the subscription includes the whole app. What you're paying for is the planning: a schedule built backward from when you want bread, bent around your sleep, with bulk timing tuned to your kitchen. A timer alone doesn't do that. No ads, no account needed, and your baking data stays on your device. Terms: https://loafnote.com/terms.html Privacy: https://loafnote.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

Bake Book4 screens
LoafNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bake Book at none against LoafNote's 2. LoafNote's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. LoafNote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Bake Book 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 Bake Book against 5.0 for LoafNote. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bake Book ships an update every 3 days, LoafNote every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Bake Book versus LoafNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBake BookLoafNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 6 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB61 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSong ParkBruin Labs LLC

Customer experience

Bake Book

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

LoafNote

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Bake Book

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

LoafNote

Subscriptions2
  • LoafNote Monthly1 Month trial$3.991 Month
  • LoafNote Annual1 Month trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Bake Book free?
Bake Book is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LoafNote free?
LoafNote is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bake Book or LoafNote?
Bake Book and LoafNote are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Bake Book or LoafNote have ads?
Bake Book shows ads; LoafNote does not.
Which is updated more often, Bake Book or LoafNote?
Bake Book ships an update every 3 days, and LoafNote every 6 days. Most recently, Bake Book was updated on October 8, 2026 and LoafNote on October 28, 2026.

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