Bread Boss vs Dough Temperature Calculator
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bread Boss
This app simplifies bread making by handling the scientific calculations, allowing users to focus on creativity. It offers supplied recipes, conversion tools for existing recipes, and automated reminders for each step of the baking process.
- Supplied sourdough recipes
- Recipe conversion to baker's percentages
- Automatic scaling of recipes
- Reminder alarms for baking tasks
- Recipe sharing with other users
- Starter refresh calculator
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Making amazing and healthy bread is both an art and a science. Bread Boss takes care of the science, freeing your creative spirit and allowing you to spend your time doing what people do best: art! If you want more than a recipe book then Bread Boss is the tool for you. You can build novel recipes from working examples. You can convert your existing recipes and turn them into baker’s formulas (with percentages), allowing you to scale up or down your bread volume to suit your needs at any given time – no more calculations necessary – that’s Bread Boss’ job. New to bread making? Don’t worry as Bread Boss comes with a set of supplied recipes developed by a master baker. Your home oven could be baking one of our delicious sourdough breads, a Rustic White, Stoneground, Walnut and Cranberry (we call it Walberry), Spelt, Quinoa and Mixed Seed, Hungarian Light Rye, Dark Rye, Olive and Thyme and many more. New recipes are regularly being added to the list. Bread Boss creates alarms or notifications to remind you when each important task needs to be done, so you don’t need to worry or keep track of time. You can easily shift the alarms forward and back to align with your personal schedule. Once you’ve perfected your recipe, you can photograph the result to save with the recipe and share it with your fellow Bread Bosses. Bread Boss is the synthesis and culmination of experience in baking and software engineering. Two brothers from different fields working together to create an app that removes the guess work and tedium of traditional bread making, so that you the Bread Boss can express your creative passions for healthy, tasty and beautiful bread. Bread Boss is the indispensable tool for Bakers, Chefs, Baking Students, and Artisan Bread Makers. Quick Overview of Features ===================== * Supplied list of recipes * New recipes added regularly * Full and detailed help at http://www.sourdoughbreadrecipe.com.au/bread-boss-ios-help/ * Simple scaling of volume and units or by total flour available * Automatic generation of increase starter stage * Each recipe can have variations * Recipes can be defined in bakers percentages * Recipes can be converted from weights using the weights input method * Recipes are defined in terms of stages, each stage can have fermentation or process times to influence alarms * Production stages can be defined to group ingredients and specify how and when they are combined into the recipe * Recipes have reminder alarms to prompt you to perform the next task in the process * Alarms can be adjusted forward or back as a whole to easily shift schedules * Different recipes can have different alarm ringtones * Multiple photos can be saved with a recipe * Recipes can be shared with other Bread Boss users * Refresh starter calculator * Screen lock while viewing recipe * Notes and URL links can be set with recipe stages * Community of like minded Bread Bosses where you can ask advice, offer suggestions or show off your talents. * Support website where you can get information and help with all things sourdough bread, baking and Bread Boss related. Visit us at: http://sourdoughbreadrecipe.com.au or G+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/104678082173842999474 or FB: https://www.facebook.com/sourdoughbreadrecipe Join our facebook Bread Boss community/group to share recipes and experience with other Bread Bosses: https://www.facebook.com/groups/BreadBoss/ Oh, and by the way, it's Ad free.
Dough Temperature Calculator
This utility helps home bakers achieve consistent dough temperatures by calculating the precise water temperature needed. Adjust for ambient conditions and ingredient temperatures to ensure your final dough is perfect every time. Save your favorite recipes for easy recall.
- Calculate desired dough temperature
- Adjust water temperature based on ingredients
- Supports Celsius and Fahrenheit
- Adjustable friction factor
- Save custom mixes/recipes
- Improve baking consistency
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Improve your home bread baking by ensuring that the temperature of your dough is in the perfect range when you are done mixing it. Professional bakers have a Desired Dough Temperature that they target by adjusting the temperature of the water they use. This simple app let's you do the same at home. The temperature of your kitchen, your flour, and your sourdough starter may be different today than they were the last time you baked. This app makes it easy for you to calculate the temperature of the water you should use so that your finished dough is the same temperature every time - no matter how cold or hot your kitchen and ingredients are. As you enter the temperatures of the elements you can't control, you'll update the computed value of the water temperature. This app allows you to work in Celsius or Fahrenheit and to adjust the friction factor to tune the formula to the methods you use. You can now save your mixes so that you can return to bake familiar recipes without entering everything from scratch. It's a simple app that does just one thing - but that one thing will help you take your bread baking to a new level.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dough Temperature Calculator at 100% against Bread Boss's 43%. Dough Temperature Calculator also leads on price (Free vs $5.99) and rating (5.0 vs 4.3). Bread Boss's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 16 months) and ratings volume (33 vs 3). On ads, 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
Dough Temperature Calculator is free to download; Bread Boss costs $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Dough Temperature Calculator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bread Boss has 33 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Bread Boss's written reviews are positive against 100% of Dough Temperature Calculator's.
Bread Boss ships an update every 3 months, Dough Temperature Calculator every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bread Boss | Dough Temperature Calculator |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $5.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (33 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #128 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Karen Benhar | Dim Sum Thinking, Inc |
Customer experience
Bread Boss
Dough Temperature Calculator
In-app purchases
Bread Boss
No in-app purchases
Dough Temperature Calculator
No in-app purchases
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