Comparison

BakeValue vs Knead

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

Head to head
About

BakeValue

Manage bakery ingredients, recipes, and inventory while automatically calculating costs and pricing for your baked goods. Track labor, kitchen expenses, and stock levels to ensure profitability. Generate shopping lists and export your data.

Highlights
  • Ingredient cost and stock tracking
  • Recipe building with nested sub-recipes
  • Automatic labor and kitchen cost calculation
  • Product pricing and profit margin analysis
  • Automated shopping list generation
  • Data export (ZIP/CSV)
  • VoiceOver and accessibility support
Features
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Stop guessing what to charge for cakes, cookies, bread, and other baked goods. BakeValue is a recipe cost calculator built for home and cottage bakers. It adds up ingredients, labor, overhead, and packaging, then shows the selling price and profit before you accept the order. No subscription. No ads. No spreadsheet formulas to rebuild. PRICE EVERY BAKE FOR PROFIT • Include ingredients, labor, overhead, and packaging • Set your desired margin and see the selling price • Enter a selling price and see the profit and markup it leaves • Calculate cost per slice, cookie, loaf, or other sellable unit KEEP INGREDIENT COSTS CURRENT • Enter a pack price and size once, then reuse the ingredient across recipes • Mix grams, kilograms, ounces, pounds, milliliters, liters, teaspoons, tablespoons, cups, and units • Track multiple purchases of the same ingredient at different prices • Update an ingredient price and every recipe using it follows BUILD AND SCALE RECIPES • Create recipes from saved ingredients • Reuse sub-recipes such as buttercream, ganache, fillings, and pastry cream • Scale batches while keeping ingredient, labor, and overhead costs accurate • Preview what a bake needs before starting MANAGE YOUR PANTRY • Track remaining stock and expiration dates • See low and expiring ingredients before they become a problem • Build a shopping list and record purchases back into stock • Log a bake to update ingredient quantities together BUILT FOR ONE-PERSON BAKERIES BakeValue is designed for home bakers, cottage-food businesses, custom cake makers, weekend market stalls, and anyone tired of guessing prices or maintaining the same spreadsheet. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No ads, tracking, analytics, or account required • Calculations happen on your device • Optional private iCloud sync across your devices • Export your data whenever you want ACCESSIBLE • VoiceOver labels and announcements • Dynamic Type and large touch targets • Reduce Motion support • Important status is never communicated by color alone FREE AND PRO The free version includes 3 active products, 4 recipes, 25 custom ingredients, two price lots per ingredient, and CSV export. BakeValue Pro is a one-time purchase with no subscription. It unlocks unlimited products, recipes, ingredients, and price lots, expanded CSV export, and the Pro Home Screen icon. SUPPORT Questions or feedback? Visit privacy-dxb.pages.dev/support.

About

Knead

Features
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Knead is the order book and kitchen calendar for home bakers and cottage food businesses — and this app puts the whole thing in your apron pocket. THE COUNTER greets you with what matters today: fresh inquiries, orders due, and gentle heads-ups (an invoice aging, a regular worth thanking). THE BOARD keeps every order moving. Quote it, take the deposit, bake it, hand it off. Each move is one tap, and your website availability updates itself. SWEET SPOT shows your month at a glance. Light days, busy days, full days. Blocking a getaway weekend takes two taps, and your order form respects it instantly. INVOICES & THE JAR: send an invoice from the kitchen, share a pay link by text, and watch payments land. SNAP & CREATE: point the camera at a recipe card (grandma's handwriting included) and Knead turns it into a costed, scalable recipe. Receipts become expenses the same way. Knead is made for the baker who runs the show solo. So warnings stay loud, but you can always break your own rules. Knead offers optional Starter and Growth subscriptions as monthly auto-renewable in-app purchases. Payment is charged to your Apple Account; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store subscription settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://kneadapp.co/privacy

Screenshots

BakeValue4 screens
Knead4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Knead at 16.4 against BakeValue's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. BakeValue sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Knead sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.00 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BakeValue ships an update every 2 weeks, Knead every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
BakeValue versus Knead: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBakeValueKnead
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHisa HashisakaJames Gaines

In-app purchases

1 purchases

BakeValue

One-time1
  • BakeValue Pro$9.99
2 purchases

Knead

Subscriptions2
  • Starter$19.001 Month
  • Growth$39.001 Month

Questions

Is BakeValue free?
BakeValue is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Knead free?
Knead is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do BakeValue or Knead have ads?
Neither BakeValue nor Knead shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BakeValue or Knead?
BakeValue ships an update every 2 weeks, and Knead every 3 weeks. Most recently, BakeValue was updated on September 29, 2026 and Knead on October 1, 2026.

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