Perfect Bake vs Bake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Perfect Bake
This interactive baking app guides you through recipes step-by-step, using a smart scale for precise ingredient measurement. It automatically adjusts recipes and provides built-in timers for perfect results every time.
- Interactive step-by-step recipe guidance
- Smart scale integration for precise weighing
- Automatic recipe scaling and math adjustments
- Built-in mixing, baking, and cooling timers
- Virtual bowl fills in real-time
- Shopping list creation from recipes
- Pantry feature suggests recipes based on ingredients
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Perfect Bake™ is the world’s first interactive baking app. The Perfect Bake system includes this app and a smart scale. It weighs each ingredient for accuracy and uses built-in timers to alert you when you’re done mixing, baking, or cooling. The virtual bowl fills up as you add ingredients, showing you exactly when to stop. Need to rescale the recipe? Perfect Bake does the math for you—whether you’re changing the size of your cake pan, the quantity of cookies you want to bake, or adjusting for the amount of chocolate chips you have on hand. It’s Easy Download the free Perfect Bake app, and connect your iPad or iPhone to a Perfect Bake scale. The app guides you step-by-step through adding ingredients, mixing, portioning, and baking. Never miss a step or ingredient again. The app is color-coded to show you which bowl to use (three color-coded bowls are included with the Perfect Bake scale). No measuring! The virtual bowl fills in real-time as you add ingredients and tells you when to stop. Add ingredients from recipes to a shopping list with a couple of touches. It’s Foolproof Perfect Bake measures everything by weight for utmost accuracy – just like all professional pastry chefs. It does all the math for you to scale your recipe to your specification: Scale to a number of cookies, cupcakes, muffins, etc. Scale to a pan size and/or shape Scale to an ingredient amount: Only have half a bag of chocolate chips? No problem. Put the chocolate chips on the scale and tell the app to scale the recipe. Three timers – mixing, baking, and cooling – ensure consistently perfect results. It’s Fun (and Delicious!) Try something new from hundreds of mouthwatering recipes, all created and tested by our professional pastry chefs. Check back often – new recipes are constantly being added. The Pantry feature even suggests recipes for the ingredients you have on-hand. Pouring ingredients into a bowl until you hear a “ding” is addictively fun! Make it Yours Use the recipe editor to enter your own recipes or customize existing ones. Use the Perfect Bake scale to measure your recipe as you pour, or enter amounts directly Touch and drag ingredients and actions to rearrange your recipe. Add your own description and notes. Add photos to your recipes within the app. Add your own custom ingredients in the Pantry.
Bake
This app simplifies baking by allowing you to scale recipes, adapt to missing ingredients, and convert units. It also offers nutrition estimation and custom timers to help you achieve perfect results.
- Scale recipes up or down
- Adapt to missing ingredients
- Convert units (volume, mass, temp)
- Estimate nutrition and calories
- Create and manage recipes
- Set custom baking timers
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Bake-u-lator is your all-in-one baking calculator, recipe adjuster, and kitchen toolkit. Quickly scale recipes up or down, adapt to missing ingredients, convert units with ease, and keep track of your bake times—all in one simple app. Limiting Ingredient Calculator - Out of flour? Low on eggs? Enter what you do have, and Bake-u-lator automatically recalculates the recipe using proportional amounts of each ingredient. Yield Calculator - Need 14 cupcakes instead of 10? Want to halve a recipe? Instantly scale any recipe to match your desired yield. Nutrition Calculator - Estimate the calories and macronutrients in your baked goods using ingredient-level nutrition breakdowns. Unit Converters - Effortlessly convert volume, mass, and temperature values to keep every measurement accurate. Recipes - Create recipes by manually entering ingredients, scanning recipes with your camera, or importing photos. Custom Timers - Create and run multiple baking timers to stay on track from prep to finish. Whether you’re adjusting recipes on the fly or planning your next bake with precision, Bake-u-lator helps you get it just right. Happy baking! The app and all in-app purchases and subscriptions are licensed under the standard Apple terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Perfect Bake at none against Bake's 2. Perfect Bake also leads on iOS requirement (10.2 vs 17.0). Bake's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and review sentiment (71% vs 52%). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Bake sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Perfect Bake asks for nothing beyond the download.
Bake holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bake has 183 ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Perfect Bake's written reviews are positive against 71% of Bake's.
Perfect Bake ships an update every 2 months, Bake every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Perfect Bake | Bake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (27 ratings) | 4.5 (183 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.0% of reviews | 70.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 183 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Perfect Company | Marco Contino |
Customer experience
Perfect Bake
Bake
Bugs and requests
Perfect Bake
Reported bugs
10 issues- Videos not playing on iPad
- App crashes when creating recipes
- Cannot log in
- Scale no longer connects
- App crashes when editing content/ingredients
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- Cannot add unrecognized ingredients
- Buttons disappear when editing recipes
- Sync option not working
- App crashes when going to 'My Account'
- App crashes after iOS update, scale calibration issues
Requested features
10 requests- Update app for newer screens
- Allow computer input for recipes
- Add ingredient substitutions
- Include nutritional information
- Add a category for breads
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- Make recipe creation easier
- Allow users to rate recipes
- Make user recipes shareable
- Add more recipes
- Sync across devices
Bake
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Perfect Bake
No in-app purchases
Bake
- Bake-u-lator Pro$0.991 Month
- Bake-u-lator Pro$9.99









