Bread Book vs Levain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bread Book
Easily convert recipe ingredient amounts and adjust serving sizes with a slider. Capture photos of your bakes and add detailed notes for consistency. Share your culinary creations with friends and family.
- Ingredient conversion
- Adjustable serving sizes
- Recipe photo capture
- Flexible notes section
- Recipe sharing
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Bread Book is a conversion tool for bakers and home cooks. Add your favorite recipes and instantly see the baker's percentage for each ingredient. *Adjust servings* Move the slider up and down to adjust the serving size for each recipe. Need to make half as much as last time? Slide down until you see "0.5x". Making double? Slide up. Making a feast for all of your friends and family? Edit the recipe to increase the maximum serving size to 4x, 8x, 20x, as high as you want and then slide up! *Capture the moment* Bake the perfect loaf of bread? Take a picture of it on the recipe page to show your friends, and in the future, use the photo to compare against your next great loaf. *Flexible notes* Can't remember whether to bake at 450° or 500°? Write it down in the notes section. You might also take notes on how many folds and at what interval, or how much starter to use, or what happened when you increased or decreased the hydration, whether to use a steam tray, or how long to let your bread cool. Remember, baking is a science, and notes help you stay consistent. *Share your recipe* Tap the share button to send your friends and family a copy of your recipe.
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 in-app purchases: Bread Book at none against Levain's 3. Bread Book also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). Levain's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Levain sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Bread Book asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Bread Book against 4.8 for Levain. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 4 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Bread Book's written reviews are positive against 100% of Levain's.
Bread Book ships an update every 5 days, Levain every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 8, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bread Book | Levain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (11 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 25 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sandro Turriate | Michael Klug |
Customer experience
Bread Book
Levain
In-app purchases
Bread Book
No in-app purchases
Levain
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99






