PizzApp+ vs Pizza Nerd
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PizzApp+
This application calculates the precise ingredients and yeast amounts needed for your pizza dough based on your desired dough characteristics. You can save, reload, and share your custom recipes.
- Dough ingredient calculation
- Yeast amount suggestion
- Save custom recipes
- Load saved recipes
- Share recipes
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PizzApp computes the ingredients needed to obtain a dough with the selected features and suggests the amount of yeast to be used. It also lets you save your recipes, reload and share them.
Pizza Nerd
This app helps you create perfect homemade pizza dough with science-backed, dynamic instructions. It offers 16 authentic pizza styles, a global flour database, and tools to calculate ingredients and costs.
- Dynamic, science-backed dough instructions
- 16 authentic pizza styles
- Global flour database with equivalents
- Baker's math with ingredient calculations
- Stage timer for fermentation
- Bake log for tracking bakes
- Cost calculator for professional use
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Pizza Nerd™ — The Dough Calculator That Teaches Stop guessing. Start making incredible pizza at home. Pizza Nerd is more than a calculator — it is your personal pizza coach. Every recipe comes with dynamic, science-backed instructions that adapt to your kitchen temperature, fermentation length, oven type, and yeast choice. Whether you are chasing a leoparded Neapolitan crown or a crispy Detroit corner, Pizza Nerd gets the dough right the first time. 16 AUTHENTIC PIZZA STYLES Each style is calibrated by professional bakers — not generic templates. - Neapolitan, Contemporary Neapolitan - New York, New Haven, Grandma - Detroit, Sicilian, Chicago Deep Dish, Chicago Thin - Roman al Taglio, Pizza alla Pala - Focaccia, California, Montreal - Flammkuchen, Coca, Lahmacun BAKER'S MATH, NO MATH HEADACHES - True baker's percentages — every ingredient to the gram - Final Dough Temperature (FDT) water-temp calculator - Power-curve yeast model recalibrated on real PizzApp data - Rapid preset — true 2-hour emergency pizza (1h bulk + 1h proof) - Measurement Guide — no scale? We convert grams to teaspoons - Total flour weight readout for fast recipe comparison GLOBAL FLOUR DATABASE (100+ FLOURS) - Italian Caputo, Le 5 Stagioni, Petra, Polselli, Mulino Marino - American King Arthur, Bob's Red Mill, Central Milling - Canadian Robin Hood, Five Roses, Anita's - French T45/T55/T65, Spanish, German, UK, Australian - Smart equivalents — swap flours across regions with confidence STAGE TIMER & QUICK SETS - Live fermentation progress with stage-by-stage guidance - Quick Sets for one-tap dough setups (4 balls / 6 balls / party batch) - Save and reload your favourite recipes BAKE LOG (Plus) Track every bake — flour, hydration, ferment time, results, photos, lessons. Build your personal pizza playbook. COST CALCULATOR (Pro) Running a pop-up or thinking about going pro? See the per-pie cost of flour, yeast, salt, oil, sauce, cheese, and toppings. Know your margins before you serve. LEARN In-app articles on hydration, autolyse, cold ferment, oven hot spots, sauce balance, dough temperature — written for nerds who want to know why, not just what. FREE, PLUS & PRO - Free — full calculator, all 16 styles, dynamic instructions, flour database - Plus — Bake Log, recipe library, advanced ferment tools - Pro — Cost Calculator and pop-up tools Built by a pizza-obsessed home baker, refined by a community of testers around the world. No ads. No tracking. Just dough.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pizza Nerd at 5.0 against PizzApp+'s 4.4. Pizza Nerd also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months). PizzApp+'s advantage is ratings volume (185 vs 7) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pizza Nerd holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PizzApp+ has 185 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of PizzApp+'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Pizza Nerd's.
PizzApp+ ships an update every 5 months, Pizza Nerd every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PizzApp+ | Pizza Nerd |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (185 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 185 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | NFP SOFTWARE | Andrew Savoie |
Customer experience
PizzApp+
Pizza Nerd
Bugs and requests
PizzApp+
Reported bugs
13 issues- App crashes after single use requiring reinstall
- Input field buttons (+/-) not responding
- Unable to enter information in fields
- Saved recipes disappearing after updates
- Settings not persisting between sessions
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- Weight field displaying 'NaN' error
- UI not refreshing properly
- GDPR cookie popup appearing on every app launch
- App soft locks when internet unavailable
- Ads covering vital ingredient totals at bottom
- Flour number field disappearing
- Data loss during app updates
- App incompatibility after iOS 17 update
Requested features
19 requests- Ad-free premium version or one-time purchase option
- Basic instructional guide for pizza making steps
- Fresh yeast (compressed yeast) support
- Sugar/honey ingredient option for NY style dough
- Dough schedule with customizable timeline steps
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- Direct flour and water field input capability
- Measurement unit options (ounces, quarts, etc.)
- Poolish calculation based on water percentage
- Biga and poolish advanced settings with defaults
- Cold fermentation timing options
- Diastatic malt powder ingredient option
- Sicilian pizza style support
- Deep dish and focaccia dough styles
- Photo upload capability for recipe notes
- Editable recipe notes
- W rating selection option
- Smaller dough ball size adjustments (1g increments)
- Temperature feature for poolish settings
- Fridge proof option for poolish
Pizza Nerd
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PizzApp+
No in-app purchases
Pizza Nerd
No in-app purchases








