Bake-u-lator

Name: Bake-u-lator
Rating: 4.6 (158 reviews)
Author: Marco Contino

Baking calculator and toolkit

Free · Designed for iPad

158 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Food & Drink
Developer

Marco Contino
Language

EN
English
Size

36.3
MB

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!

Ratings & Reviews

4.6

out of 5

158 Ratings

Very simple and easy to use
Nov 11

Taylore.S
I love this app so much! I am slowly building a small baking business and this has helped so much with exact measurements. It's also very screen reader friendly, which isn't common in these types of apps, so a very important factor for me as a blind baker.
Very simple and easy to use
Nov 11

Taylore.S

I love this app so much! I am slowly building a small baking business and this has helped so much with exact measurements. It's also very screen reader friendly, which isn't common in these types of apps, so a very important factor for me as a blind baker.
Please, so much potential I would gladly pay for
03/01/2022

bpetruzzo
It’s pretty good as is, but just needs a little more flexibility. This app is going to help me keep track of baking experiments, and I’m very excited about that. I did immediately meet what seems like a big shortcoming. When using the yield tool, what I’m most likely doing is trying to re-portion the recipe to just make 2 cupcakes or whatever. The results in this case are useless, offering things in 1/12 of a cup, or 1/16 tsp. It will always return the new measurement in the same scale as the original measurement, which is unusable without one by one converting them to weight measurements, which is tedious when looking to permutate a recipe 12 different ways.There are some other minor gripes, but that’s the main one. It’s really a remarkably nice app considering it’s free. It’s just a shame that you’ll need to invest time into it to get your recipes in the system, but then the system is limited in some really frustrating ways. I’d gladly pay $5-$10 for a more robust version of this exact app, especially if it were partially geared toward tracking baking experiments.

Developer Response
Thank you for the feedback. The latest update adds the ability you requested. You can now change the unit of measurement on your result.
Please, so much potential I would gladly pay for
03/01/2022

bpetruzzo

It’s pretty good as is, but just needs a little more flexibility. This app is going to help me keep track of baking experiments, and I’m very excited about that. I did immediately meet what seems like a big shortcoming. When using the yield tool, what I’m most likely doing is trying to re-portion the recipe to just make 2 cupcakes or whatever. The results in this case are useless, offering things in 1/12 of a cup, or 1/16 tsp. It will always return the new measurement in the same scale as the original measurement, which is unusable without one by one converting them to weight measurements, which is tedious when looking to permutate a recipe 12 different ways.There are some other minor gripes, but that’s the main one. It’s really a remarkably nice app considering it’s free. It’s just a shame that you’ll need to invest time into it to get your recipes in the system, but then the system is limited in some really frustrating ways. I’d gladly pay $5-$10 for a more robust version of this exact app, especially if it were partially geared toward tracking baking experiments.
Developer Response Dec 17
Thank you for the feedback. The latest update adds the ability you requested. You can now change the unit of measurement on your result.
Minimal usefulness as a recipe calorie calculator
06/27/2021

KCB1983
I downloaded this for the recipe calorie calculator. Most of the ingredients for my first recipe were not in the app (peanut butter, rolled oats, cocoa nibs, flax seed meal, coconut) so I entered them all manually including the calories/100g, which I had to calculate manually. I input the recipe - it does have a very convenient feature for entering quantities - and when I pressed calculate, it had no calories for all of the ingredients I had so painstakingly calculated and entered. Total waste of time. In all fairness, if you are only using the ingredients included in the app, it seems to work well.

Developer Response
Hi - sorry you had a bad experience with our app. In order to calculate calories, each custom ingredient must include calories per 100 grams AND a density. The instructions were not very clear that density is also required. We just pushed an update that addressed this and also made it easier to add this missing information. Thank you for bringing this to our attention!
Minimal usefulness as a recipe calorie calculator
06/27/2021

KCB1983

I downloaded this for the recipe calorie calculator. Most of the ingredients for my first recipe were not in the app (peanut butter, rolled oats, cocoa nibs, flax seed meal, coconut) so I entered them all manually including the calories/100g, which I had to calculate manually. I input the recipe - it does have a very convenient feature for entering quantities - and when I pressed calculate, it had no calories for all of the ingredients I had so painstakingly calculated and entered. Total waste of time. In all fairness, if you are only using the ingredients included in the app, it seems to work well.
Developer Response 06/30/2021
Hi - sorry you had a bad experience with our app. In order to calculate calories, each custom ingredient must include calories per 100 grams AND a density. The instructions were not very clear that density is also required. We just pushed an update that addressed this and also made it easier to add this missing information. Thank you for bringing this to our attention!
Almost 5 stars
01/30/2024

Keys8309
Truly a helpful and easy to use kitchen tool. Would be even better if it had a simple and direct calculator in the “converters” section to get equivalency ratios. Currently you have to use the “Limiting” or “yield” tools to build that calculation. Would be nice to be able to just plug in numbers and press a “calculate” button to get a missing variable. Still, Bake-u-lator is a really good, reliable app.
Almost 5 stars
01/30/2024

Keys8309

Truly a helpful and easy to use kitchen tool. Would be even better if it had a simple and direct calculator in the “converters” section to get equivalency ratios. Currently you have to use the “Limiting” or “yield” tools to build that calculation. Would be nice to be able to just plug in numbers and press a “calculate” button to get a missing variable. Still, Bake-u-lator is a really good, reliable app.