Cake Costing App

FoodTechGuru is a cake costing app for iPhone: photograph or type a cake recipe and get the cost of the whole cake and of each slice. Flour, butter, eggs and sugar are priced for your country, and you can type in what you actually pay.

Download free on iOS 15 free credits · one cake recipe = one credit

Two FoodTechGuru iPhone screens: a recipe cost card with ingredients and an Open in Google Sheets button, and the cost summary showing a price per serving of 2.64 dollars — Real app screens. The recipe here is carne asada tacos from our food-truck demo; a cake recipe gets the same card, with servings set to your slice count.

Cost a cake recipe from a photo

Snap a photo of the recipe card or cookbook page, paste a recipe link from Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, type the ingredients, or dictate them. The app reads the recipe and builds the cost card, one line per ingredient.

Price per cake and per slice

Per slice: set the servings to your slice count and read the cost per serving.
Your price: type the selling price and how many you sell to see revenue, profit and margin %.
Extras: add boxes and boards, labour and utilities as optional lines.

Want to try the maths first? Use the free cake pricing calculator in your browser.

Weights before and after the oven

Each ingredient has a prep-loss coefficient (eggshells, peel) and a cooking-loss coefficient (moisture lost in the oven). The card shows what you buy, what goes in the batter and what comes out, so a one-kilo cake is costed on what it really takes.

Every cake in a Google Sheet

Each recipe also lands in a Google Sheet with a Technical Card tab and a Nutritional Info tab (calories, macros and vitamins from USDA data). Keep one sheet per cake and share it with whoever bakes.

For home bakers and bakeries

Group your cakes into a menu for a menu engineering sheet that shows which items earn the most (Professional or Guru plan). Opening a shop? The business plan generator has a bakery format and builds a live plan from your recipe costs (paid plans, 50 credits).

Free download

Cost your first 15 cakes free

Cost per cake and per slice
Ingredient prices for your country, editable
iPhone today, Android coming

Scan with your iPhone

FoodTechGuru on iPhone: from the main screen, tap Cost a Recipe, type the dishes, and the carne asada tacos cost card appears with its ingredients and servings — The real app: tap Cost a Recipe, type or paste the recipe, get the cost card.

Cake costing app FAQ

Is the cake costing app free?

The download is free and new accounts get 15 credits. One cake recipe uses one credit.

How do I get the cost per slice?

Set the servings on the cost card to the number of slices. The card shows the cost per serving, which is your cost per slice.

Can it cost frosting and fillings?

Yes. Put the buttercream, ganache or filling ingredients in the same recipe and each one is priced on its own line.

Can I add boxes, labour and other costs?

Yes. Packaging, labour and utilities are optional lines on top of the ingredient cost, and they show up in your profit.

Does it work on Android?

Not yet. The app is on iPhone today and Android is coming. Every cost card is also a Google Sheet you can open on any device.

Know what every cake costs

Snap the recipe, set your slices, see your margin.

Download free on iOS