Bake Margin puts a real price on every bake
Recipe costing, margin-based pricing, quotes, orders, and invoices for home bakers and small custom cake businesses. Free on iPhone, works offline, no account to create.
Stop guessing what to charge
Most home bakers price by feel: a look at what others charge, a round number that seems fair, and hope. Then butter goes up, the order takes two hours longer than planned, and the profit quietly disappears. Bake Margin replaces the guess with arithmetic you can defend.
Know your real cost
Add your ingredients once, with prices. Bake Margin handles unit and density conversions, adds your waste percentage, and folds in labor and overhead, so every recipe resolves to an honest cost per batch and per serving. Set a target margin and it suggests a price, explained line by line, so you can stand behind the quote when someone asks why a custom cake costs what it costs.
Prices drift, so the app keeps up: snap a grocery receipt and your ingredient costs update from what you actually paid.
From request to paid invoice
Custom orders usually arrive as a string of texts. Bake Margin captures them as a structured brief instead: event date, servings, flavors, allergies, and design notes, so nothing falls through the cracks. Turn the brief into a branded PDF quote, the quote into an order, and the order into an invoice.
See your week, and what it actually earns
Every order lands on a baking calendar with capacity warnings before you overbook a weekend. The profit dashboard shows revenue, cost, profit, and margin over time, plus your top earners, so you know which bakes deserve a spot on the menu and which ones cost you sleep for nothing. A smart shopping list takes the week's orders, subtracts what your pantry already holds, and gives you the list of what to buy.
Private, offline, and yours
Recipes, customers, and orders live on your phone. The app works offline, shows no ads, and needs no account. Back up any time and export to CSV.
The core is free: cost recipes, set prices, and run orders without paying anything. A one-time Pro upgrade adds the profit dashboard, the smart shopping list, and more PDF types.
Why I built it
I run a one-person creative business myself. Custom work dies by underquoting, in cake as in photography, so I built the calculator I kept wishing existed for pricing handmade orders.
Frequently asked questions
How should I price a custom cake?
Cost the ingredients with waste included, add your labor at a real hourly rate, add a share of overhead (power, packaging, tools), then apply a margin on top. Bake Margin does that math for you and shows the suggested price line by line.
Does Bake Margin work offline?
Yes, fully. Recipes, orders, quotes, and manual payments work with no connection. Only Stripe and Square payment links and receipt lookups need a network.
Do I need an account?
No. There is nothing to sign up for, and your data never leaves the device unless you export it.
What is free and what is Pro?
Free covers costing, pricing, products, orders, quotes, and invoices. Pro is a subscription or one-time purchase that unlocks the profit dashboard, the smart shopping list, and extra PDF types.
Can I get my data out?
Always. Backup and CSV export are built in.