# Sourdough Bread Timer: Levain — Proofing Calculator & Bake Log

> Proofing Calculator & Bake Log (iPhone/iPad app by YI SHIH LIU.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sourdough-bread-timer-levain/id6812950497 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [YI SHIH LIU](https://appshunter.io/developer/1793695638)
- Category: Food & Drink, Lifestyle
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 26.0 · 8 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Japanese, Korean, European Spanish, Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan)
- Released: 2026-09-27
- Data updated: 2026-11-06

## What is Sourdough Bread Timer?

Sourdough doesn't wait for you. Levain runs your whole bake from one timeline — every stage, every fold, every proof — and its alarms ring through silent mode so you never sleep through a shape again.

Most timers count down once. A real loaf needs eight stages across eighteen hours, half of them overnight. Levain was built for that.

ONE TIMER, EVERY STAGE
Chain autolyse, mix, bulk ferment, folds, shape, cold retard and bake into a single schedule. Every step shows the clock time it will actually happen, before you start — so you know tonight whether you are pulling bread out at 7am or at noon. Long bakes get Next Day markers where the timeline crosses midnight.

ALARMS THAT ACTUALLY WAKE YOU
Stage alerts ring through silent mode and Focus, the way a Clock alarm does. Loud alarms are per stage: quiet for the overnight retard, loud for the oven.

LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN
The countdown lives in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen. Glance at the stage name, the step number and the time left without opening the app.

DOUGH THAT RUNS LATE
When a stage ends the clock keeps counting up instead of resetting. Dough is ready when it is ready — Levain waits, and tells you how far over you are.

BUILD YOUR OWN BREAD
Drag stages into a timeline, scrub durations on a rotary dial, and drop ingredients, temperatures and humidity targets onto any step. Baker's percentage is calculated as you go, with levain counted as half flour and half water.

A JOURNAL OF EVERY LOAF
Log a bake and it becomes a photo on your calendar. The background is lifted off your loaf on device, so the bread sits as a sticker on the day you baked it. Notes, a gallery, the ingredients and the timeline it really ran on are kept as a snapshot — editing the recipe later never rewrites history.

Starts with Classic Sourdough and Sourdough Focaccia. No account, and nothing leaves your phone.

FREE AND PRO
Free includes 3 recipes with the full multi-stage timer, loud alarms and Live Activity. Levain Pro unlocks unlimited recipes and the full photo bake journal, with a 7-day free trial. Available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time purchase.

Monthly and yearly plans renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings.

Terms of Use: https://liuys614.github.io/levain/terms.html
Privacy Policy: https://liuys614.github.io/levain/privacy.html

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro Yearly: Unlimited Recipes | $15.99 | per year |
| Pro Monthly: Unlimited Journal | $3.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pro Lifetime: Unlimited Bakes | $29.99 | one-time |


## Is Sourdough Bread Timer safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Sourdough Bread Timer.

## Is Sourdough Bread Timer legit?

Sourdough Bread Timer: Levain appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Sourdough Bread Timer is 65 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 26.11.1 — 2026-11-02

• Overnight Stage Support: Added a helpful notice and an 8-hour reminder for long fermentation steps, keeping you informed of Live Activity status while ensuring alarms ring reliably.
• Stability & Performance: Further optimizations for background timers and alerts.

### 26.10.4 — 2026-10-29

• Overnight Stage Support: Added a helpful notice and an 8-hour reminder for long fermentation steps, keeping you informed of Live Activity status while ensuring alarms ring reliably.
• Stability & Performance: Further optimizations for background timers and alerts.

### 26.10.3 — 2026-10-20

• Timer & Alert Reliability: Enhanced alarm triggering and countdown synchronization across iOS and Apple Watch.
• Stability & Performance: Optimizations for bake logging and recipe adjustments.

### 26.10.2 — 2026-10-14

• Live Activity Reliability: Fixed an issue where duplicate Live Activities could appear on the lock screen.
• Bake Journal Details: Step ingredients and temperature targets are now displayed directly in your bake process timeline.
• General stability and performance improvements.

### 26.10.1 — 2026-10-05

First release. A multi-stage bake timer with Live Activity and Dynamic Island, loud alarms that ring through silent mode and Focus, baker's percentage calculated as you build a recipe, and a photo journal of every loaf.

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