Valrhona® vs ChocoForm

The Valrhona App is a revolutionary platform for pastry professionals, built with the technical expertise of leading pastry chefs. It provides built-in, adaptable tools for recipe development such as the Valrhona Essentials recipes, chocolate pairings, conversion tools, and more, all of which facilitate and inspire the creation process at the touch of a button.

ChocoForm is a professional calculator for chocolatiers – built around a deterministic food-science solver and a layered AI assistant. Design dark, milk and white chocolate from scratch, balance ganaches against real water-activity and shelf-life targets, and export branded recipe PDFs for production. THE CHOCOLATE CALCULATOR • Dark, milk and white couvertures with EU 2000/36/EC compliance • Cocoa content, total fat, cocoa butter share, milk fat, milk solids non-fat • Sugar-free formulations with maltitol, sorbitol, isomalt, or polyol blends • Refiner-loss compensation, conching notes, tempering targets • Live composition donut + validation chips against your chosen limits THE GANACHE CALCULATOR • Water-activity calculation across 11 solutes (sucrose, glucose, fructose, lactose, sorbitol, glycerin, salt, alcohol, cocoa, protein) • Solid fat content interpolated across 5 fat types – cocoa butter, dairy fat, palm, palm kernel, coconut • Shelf-life prediction at room and refrigerated temperatures • Plastic range, melting temperature, density, pH, Brix • Structural balance dashboard – five working percentages, industry baselines • Storage-temperature warnings for low-melting fats INGREDIENT LIBRARY • 90+ vetted ingredients shipped with the app • Import from USDA FoodData Central with a single tap • Add your own custom ingredients with full nutrient editing • Allergen flags carried into every recipe and label BRANDED PDF EXPORT • Recipe specification sheets with your logo • EU 1169/2011 nutrition declaration (per 100 g + per serving) • US Nutrition Facts panel (FDA 21 CFR 101.9) • Three QR codes for equipment, library backup, supplier links • Production-grade ingredient table with allergen ribbon AI SOUS-CHEF • Generate ingredients, chocolate recipes and ganache recipes from a brief • On-device Apple Intelligence – fully offline, fully private • Cloud Gemini Flash via a free daily quota for richer reasoning • Optional Claude Sonnet via Pro+ for the deepest formulation help GANACHE FOUNDATIONS A seven-chapter in-app guide to ganache formulation. The first chapter is free for everyone – covers the five components and how they interact. Chapters 2–7 unlock with Pro and cover the structural dashboard, shelf-life triad, texture and storage, emulsifiers, bench preparation, and when to leave the working bands on purpose. SUBSCRIPTIONS Pro – full calculators, save, branded PDF export, ingredient library, USDA import, on-device Apple Intelligence + cloud Gemini Flash, 5 trial Claude requests. Pro+ – everything in Pro, plus Claude Sonnet cloud AI (150 requests per month) with an optional BYOK fallback to your own Anthropic key. PLATFORMS One subscription covers iPhone, iPad and Mac with the same Apple ID. Designed for professional kitchens, pastry schools and serious home chocolatiers. ChocoForm is built and maintained by a solo developer. Feedback, feature requests and bug reports are always welcome – contact details are in Settings. PRIVACY BY DEFAULT Recipes, ingredients and brand identity stay on your device. The only network activity is by your choice – USDA imports, optional cloud AI, and StoreKit subscription validation. No analytics, no tracking, no ads. Apple Intelligence runs entirely on-device. Privacy Policy: https://chocoform.pro/privacy_policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/