# LoafLab: Sourdough Planner — Bake recipes timer and journal > Bake recipes timer and journal (iPhone/iPad app by Mick Doldersum.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/loaflab-sourdough-planner/id6762065648 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Mick Doldersum](https://appshunter.io/developer/1875780529) - Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 15.1 · 38 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-04-22 - Data updated: 2026-08-17 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/loaflab-sourdough-planner/id6762065648/reviews.md ## What is LoafLab? A home baker's companion for sourdough. LoafLab helps you plan recipes, time your starter, schedule your bake around your day, and remember every loaf. No sign-up. Offline. Recipes Build formulas in grams and baker's percentages. Set flour and hydration, and LoafLab calculates water, salt, and starter. Scale to any number of loaves. Save as many recipes as you want. Starter planner Tell LoafLab your feeding ratio (1:1:1, 1:5:5, or whatever your starter likes), your kitchen temperature, and when you want to mix. It estimates when to feed so your starter peaks on time, with an optional reminder. Calibrated against real baker guidance. Plan your bake Pick a mix time or a finish time. LoafLab generates a schedule with autolyse, stretch and folds, bulk fermentation, shape, proof (room temp or cold retard), and covered plus uncovered bake. Customize any step and save your defaults. Active bake Tap Start and a checklist walks you through each step with timers and reminders. Adjust a step's time mid-bake if things run long. Check steps off as you go. Journal Log every bake with photos, a 1 to 5 star rating, dough and ambient temperatures, oven settings, steam method, notes on what worked, and tags. Search and filter your history. Turn a past bake back into a new recipe with one tap. Settings that matter Light or dark theme. Celsius or Fahrenheit. Sleep hours so the app doesn't ping you at 3 a.m. No accounts. No internet required. No ads. Your data stays on your device. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.2.0 — 2026-08-12 Photos that vanished after an app update are back for good, plus starter reminders, and a few fixes to how bakes are tracked. • Fixed: photos attached to your bake logs could disappear after updating the app. Photos are now stored in a way that survives updates. If a photo has already been lost, its log now shows a clear placeholder instead of an empty frame, so you can add a new one. • New: after you schedule a bake, LoafLab offers to plan your starter for it. One tap sets two reminders, one for when to feed and one for when your starter should be at peak. • New: the starter planner can now remind you when to feed, alongside the existing reminder for the peak. • Fixed: numbers typed with a comma are read correctly. On keyboards where the decimal key is a comma, 4,5 g of salt was being read as 4 g, and the same went for hydration, yeast and feeding ratios. • Changed: steps in a running bake stay unchecked until you tick them yourself. The clock no longer ticks them off for you, which also means you can always untick a step. • Fixed: the planner now remembers the recipe you attached, even after you close the app. • Changed: planning a bake now starts from a recipe, so your ingredients and amounts are always with you while you bake. • Polish: the current step no longer looks like it overlaps the card behind it, and the ingredient row lines up properly. ### 1.1 — 2026-06-20 What's new in LoafLab A big update: bake beyond sourdough, run two bakes at once, plan further ahead, and follow each bake step by step. Baking Yeast recipes: Add commercial yeast breads alongside sourdough. Pick your leavening and LoafLab builds the right schedule, with a faster first rise, a few folds, and a shaped proof. Two bakes at once: Run two bakes side by side, each with its own timeline, progress, and reminders. Starter planning: Get a feeding schedule so your levain peaks right when you need it. Planning Plan for any day: Schedule a bake for any future date and time, not just later today. Schedule preview and step editing: See the full timeline before you start, and adjust any step's timing or details. The planner remembers your plan: Your last setup is saved so you pick up where you left off. Smarter preheat timing: The oven preheats during the end of the cold retard, so you bake straight from the fridge with no extra wait. During the bake Live bake timer and a clear current-step view that walks you through each stage. Flexible step reminders: Pick more than one heads-up before each step, from 1 to 10 minutes, delivered to your Apple Watch too. Recipes and reference Per-recipe oven settings: Save bake times and temperatures with each recipe. Bake journal: Log your bakes with notes, photos, and ratings. Built-in sourdough glossary for the terms and techniques. Bug fixes and polish Fixed active bake completion and journal temperature tracking. More reliable step reminders and notifications. A cleaner, more compact planner and recipe layout. Various stability and performance improvements. Thanks for baking with us. Keep the feedback coming. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-05-14 Plan bakes days in advance now. The schedule picks a specific date along with the time, so you can plan a Saturday bake from Wednesday without doing the math in your head. Other improvements: - Your last-used planner settings (autolyse, proof method, timing) are remembered across sessions - Cleaner step times in the schedule and journal - Multi-day bakes show Start and End dates clearly - Warning if your planned time has already passed - Smaller, less heavy date and time picker - "Save log or discard" prompt if a planned bake's time slipped by while the app was closed Thanks for the feedback. Keep it coming. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-04-26 Minor change to the title of the app ### 1.0 — 2026-04-22 No release notes. ## More apps by Mick Doldersum - [WalkMyDoggo: Dog Walk Tracker](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/walkmydoggo-dog-walk-tracker/id6758922336) All apps by Mick Doldersum: https://appshunter.io/developer/1875780529 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-17.*