Love, Manuela Downloads & RevenueLove, Manuela · App Store
Love, Manuela is #1 in Food & Drink Paid in United States and charting in 17 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Full timeline · 32 events
- 📈Love, Manuela hit #1Top Paid · Food & Drink · US
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 10Top Paid · Food & Drink · KR
- 📈Love, Manuela hit #1Top Paid · Food & Drink · CA
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · NL
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 10Top Grossing · Food & Drink · AE
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 10Top Grossing · Food & Drink · SA
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · SA
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · AR
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 10Top Paid · Food & Drink · CN
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · ID
- 📈Love, Manuela hit #1Top Paid · Food & Drink · AU
- 📈Love, Manuela new best rank in the overall chart: #14Top Paid · All Apps · ZA
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · PH
- 📈Love, Manuela hit #1Top Paid · Food & Drink · IT
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 10Top Grossing · Food & Drink · ID
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 10Top Grossing · Food & Drink · IN
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · All Apps · IN · Top Paid · All Apps · IT
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · MY
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · ZA
- 📈Love, Manuela hit #1Top Paid · Food & Drink · SA
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 10Top Paid · Food & Drink · JP
- 📈Love, Manuela hit #1Top Paid · Food & Drink · FR
- 📈Love, Manuela new best rank in the overall chart: #19Top Paid · All Apps · AE
- 📈Love, Manuela hit #1Top Paid · Food & Drink · ID
- 📈Love, Manuela entered the top 10Top Paid · Food & Drink · IT
- 📈Love, Manuela new best rank in the overall chart: #25Top Paid · All Apps · AE
- 📈Love, Manuela hit #1 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Food & Drink · GB · Top Paid · Food & Drink · IN
- 📈Love, Manuela new best rank in the overall chart: #82Top Paid · All Apps · AE
- 📈Love, Manuela new best rank in the overall chart: #76Top Paid · All Apps · GB
- 🆕Love, Manuela first spotted by AppInsider#36 in Top Paid · Food & Drink · Japan
- 📦Love, Manuela version 4.0No release notes
- 🆕Love, Manuela released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Love, Manuela at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A one-time purchase baking app featuring over 470 step-by-step recipes from Norwegian baker Manuela Kjeilen, designed for home bakers seeking detailed visual guidance without a subscription. The app holds the #1 position in the Paid Food & Drink category across major markets including the US, UK, and Italy, indicating strong global demand for premium, non-subscription culinary content.
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Love, Manuela on the App Store
App details
Love, Manuela downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Love, Manuela's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
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| Food & DrinkPaid | #6 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #10 | |
| Food & DrinkGrossing | #96 | |
| Food & DrinkGrossing | #38 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #32 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #10 | |
| All AppsPaid | #191 | |
| Food & DrinkGrossing | #19 | |
| Food & DrinkGrossing | #37 | |
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| Food & DrinkGrossing | #62 | |
| Food & DrinkGrossing | #18 | |
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| Food & DrinkGrossing | #67 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #92 | |
| Food & DrinkGrossing | #49 | |
| Food & DrinkPaid | #35 | |
| All AppsPaid | #55 | |
| Food & DrinkGrossing | #95 | |
| Food & DrinkGrossing | #70 | |
| All AppsPaid | #62 | |
| All AppsPaid | #164 |
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Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about Love, Manuela
From the 51 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly praise the app for its detailed, reliable Scandinavian-inspired baking recipes and responsive customer support. However, several reviewers express frustration with the lack of US unit conversions, requiring a kitchen scale, and occasional technical issues with login or stability.
Mostly positive (88% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being easy to use, and being useful.
What people like
- Ease of use: “Recipes are easy to follow”
- Useful: “A Must-Have for Home Bakers”
- Price & subscription: “This app is well worth the cost”
- Design: “Excellent Recipes, Clunky Layout”
About Love, Manuela
Inside the Love, Manuela app, you get instant access to more than 470 baking recipes, all written in English, with high-quality step-by-step photos for every recipe from beginning to end.
One-time purchase. No subscription. New recipes are included when they are added.
For Manuela, taste always comes first. Beautiful cakes are lovely, but the most important thing is that every bite tastes delicious. Her recipes are created to let the flavors shine, with soft textures, creamy fillings, balanced sweetness, and desserts that taste just as good as they look. From everyday treats to celebration cakes, the recipes are made for home baking.
Inside the app, you will find sponge cakes in many variations, ganaches in delicious flavors like strawberry, latte, and banana milkshake, lots of Scandinavian-style cakes, light fillings, cheesecakes, ice creams, sweet dough, frostings, cookies, cupcakes, and so much more.
The app is made to feel like a growing digital baking book that you can return to again and again. It is easy to navigate, with clear recipe categories, improved search and filtering, and helpful tags so you can quickly find what you are looking for. A few more categories have also been added to make browsing even easier.
Each recipe opens with a large photo and a short introduction, followed by clear directions, recipe notes, a place where you can write your own notes, and step-by-step photos that guide you through the recipe. Whether you are baking a cake, preparing a filling, whipping a frosting, or making cookies, the app is designed to help you feel confident in every step.
New Cake Mode helps keep your screen awake while you read and follow a recipe, so you do not have to keep touching your phone or tablet while your hands are busy baking. The app has also been refined with improved UI, a smoother overall user experience, and an improved password reset flow.
Love, Manuela is not a subscription. It is a one-time purchase of $12.99, converted to your local currency by the App Store or Google Play. You get access to all recipes inside the app instantly, and when new recipes are added in the future, they are included at no extra cost.
Your purchase is connected to the store account you buy it with, either App Store or Google Play. You can restore your purchase anytime using the same store account.
What you get inside the app:
More than 470 baking recipes
Recipes written in English only
Clear and easy-to-follow instructions
High-quality step-by-step photos for every recipe
Easy recipe categories
Improved search and filtering
Helpful tags to find recipes fas
Latest updates
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