FermentHero vs Levain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FermentHero
This app guides you through the process of making fermented foods and bread. It offers hundreds of professional recipes, a visual scheduler, and automatic reminders to help you manage your creations. Connect with other users and recipe authors in the comment section.
- Hundreds of professional recipes
- Visual recipe scheduler
- Automatic reminders
- Community comment section
- Step-by-step guidance
- Recipe explanations
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FermentHero helps you find expert fermentation and baking recipes, plan several recipes across multiple days, and keep every step under control. Use detailed filters to find the right recipe, open clear ingredient and step details, and let the planner show what needs to happen and when. You can use FermentHero for free for as long as you like. Upgrade to FermentHero Plus to create your own recipes and access all expert recipes.
Levain
Manage your sourdough starters and bread baking recipes in one place. Track recipe steps, get notifications for feeding and baking, and monitor progress with widgets. Syncs across devices via iCloud.
- Recipe management
- Sourdough starter maintenance
- Baking step tracking
- Customizable notifications
- Home and lock screen widgets
- iCloud synchronization
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Bread Baking and Sourdough Maintenance Management for iOS and iPadOS Keep all your bread baking recipes in one single place. Define the individual recipe steps entering all details relevant to you (step duration, automatic or manual start, ingredients, temperatures, equipment etc) Bring your recipes to life by creating bakings. Get notified when a step is ready to start or has just started. Manage your sourdoughs and get notified when it’s time to feed or store them. Monitor your bakings and levains without opening the app by using the home screen and lock screen widgets. iCloud support: your recipes, bakings and levains will be available across all your iOS/iPadOS devices. Levain is totally free, In-App-Purchases allow you to tip the developer and have no impact on the app's functionality.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Levain at 100% against FermentHero's 27%. Levain also leads on ads (none vs shown). FermentHero's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.6). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. FermentHero sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Levain sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
FermentHero ships an update every 2 days, Levain every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FermentHero | Levain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 369 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sopamo GmbH | Michael Klug |
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In-app purchases
FermentHero
- FermentHero Plus Monthly$3.991 Month
- Fermenthero Plus Yearly$34.991 Year
Levain
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
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