Ernest Lee
For home cooks and bakers who require precise ingredient scaling and weight-to-volume conversions.
My Kitchen Calculator
Snapshot
Who is Ernest Lee?
Providing home cooks and bakers with high-precision tools for recipe scaling and ingredient-specific unit conversions.
Target audience
Portfolio
Last updated
My Kitchen Calculator
v5.3.1
2.1y ago
Publisher DNA
What defines Ernest Lee?
Publisher DNA
Primary focus
Kitchen utility and recipe conversion tools
Scale
indie
Target audience
Home cooks and bakers who require precise ingredient scaling and weight-to-volume conversions.
Origin
Associated with the MyKitchenCalculator.com web platform.
Signature Patterns
- •Focus on high-precision utility over lifestyle or social content
- •Monetization via a one-time paid purchase model
- •Niche targeting of bakers and precision-oriented home cooks
- •Emphasis on ingredient-specific weight-to-volume conversions
Portfolio momentum
The portfolio consists of a single title with no new releases recorded in the last six months and the app is currently classified as abandoned in store metrics.
Portfolio
What does Ernest Lee ship?
Apps
1 app analysed
Recipe calculator for scaling recipes and converting units for cooking & baking
Support for fraction inputs (e.g., 1 1/2)
- Accurate Recipe Scaling
- Lack of Recipe Storage
Single-market publisher, every app ships only to United States.
Based on 1 of 1 app with localized market data · last scanned .
Americas (1)
- United States1 / 1
Core markets (1/1 apps)
User Sentiment
How do users feel about their apps?
1
Positive apps
0
Neutral / mixed
0
Negative apps
61/100
Avg sentiment score
Rivals
Who does Ernest Lee compete with?
The rivals identified
Nemeses(1)
Both apps target home cooks requiring culinary math, but Sous Chef captures the audience through a free pricing model and multi-tasking timer tools.
Contenders(10)
Both apps target home cooks who need to adjust ingredient quantities for different serving sizes, creating direct competition for the recipe scaling utility segment.
Both apps target home cooks needing ingredient-specific weight-to-volume conversions, creating direct competition for users seeking kitchen math utilities.
Both apps target home bakers requiring ingredient conversion, with Bake offering additional utility through temperature conversion and multi-timer features that overlap with the core kitchen-utility audience.
Both apps target home bakers needing fraction-based math and ingredient-specific weight-to-volume conversions, creating direct competition for the same utility-focused user base.
Both apps target home cooks needing ingredient-specific density conversions, but the rival captures users by bundling conversion with recipe management and meal planning.
Both apps target home cooks needing unit conversions, creating direct competition for users seeking quick culinary math tools.
Both apps target home cooks needing to adjust ingredient quantities, creating direct competition for users seeking to manage recipe scaling.
Both apps target home bakers needing ingredient measurement support, with Baking Scale competing for the same user base by offering weight-tracking features that My Kitchen Calculator lacks.
Both apps target home cooks requiring culinary unit conversions, creating direct competition for users seeking quick math tools during food preparation.
Both apps target home bakers needing precise recipe scaling and unit conversion, creating direct competition for users seeking specialized kitchen math tools.
Same space(19)
Acts as a broad-spectrum conversion tool that includes kitchen measurements alongside engineering and academic categories.
Provides a large ingredient database for conversions, directly overlapping with the core utility of My Kitchen Calculator.
Provides a library-centric approach to recipe management, contrasting with the point-solution nature of My Kitchen Calculator.
Focuses on centralizing physical and digital recipes, offering a broader management suite than a simple calculator.
Automates the specific task of adjusting recipe yields, a subset of the scaling features in My Kitchen Calculator.
Aggregates culinary inspiration from multiple sources, providing a broader discovery layer than a standalone conversion tool.
Uses OCR to automate the conversion process, addressing the manual entry friction found in My Kitchen Calculator.
Targets the professional bakery niche with specialized design tools, providing a more vertical-specific utility than a general kitchen calculator.
Offers a full-featured management platform that includes the pantry tracking and meal planning features missing from My Kitchen Calculator.
Competes directly on precision by using an ingredient-density database, mirroring the core utility of My Kitchen Calculator.
Uses a visual interface for recipe scaling, offering a distinct interaction model for the same core conversion task.
Combines recipe scaling with nutrition tracking, expanding the utility beyond simple unit conversion.
Acts as a generalist utility for conversions, overlapping with the unit conversion features of My Kitchen Calculator.
Extends the kitchen calculator concept into financial management, targeting professional users.
Focuses exclusively on baking measurements, providing a specialized subset of the conversion tools in My Kitchen Calculator.
Adds a layer of nutritional analysis to the ingredient-based workflow, serving users interested in health metrics.
Provides a clean, ad-free interface for web recipes, solving the clutter issue often encountered by home cooks.
Targets bread bakers with a specialized percentage-based calculator, offering a more technical approach to scaling.
Serves as a comprehensive digital cookbook that captures recipes via OCR, addressing the recipe storage gap in My Kitchen Calculator.
The Analyst's Read
The bottom line on Ernest Lee
Bottom line
Ernest Lee is a niche indie developer with a stable, high-precision utility that serves a specific segment of the baking community. The product's functional moat remains its ingredient database, despite the current lack of active development.
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What fed this analysis
- Apps analyzed:
- 1
- With full intel:
- 1
- With overview:
- 1
- Website scraped:
- yes
- Social presence:
- yes