BreadMe vs Levain
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BreadMe
Plan and track your sourdough bread baking with this app. Schedule your bakes, collect recipes, and get reminders for feeding your starters and progressing through recipes. Take your baking notes anywhere and share your creations.
- Schedule bread readiness time
- Track recipe progress
- Collect and carry recipes
- Share recipes
- Track sourdough starters
- Sourdough feeding reminders
- Recipe progress reminders
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Do you love baking bread? Have you struggled planning your bread? Do you want to get rid of your stained recipe notes and have your recipes with you on the go, so you can bake at a friend's place as well? BreadMe might be the app for you! No matter if you're already an expert or just getting started, "BreadMe" might just be your best new bread baking buddy. BreadMe allows you to easily - SCHEDULE your bread so it's ready at the time you need it. - keep TRACK of your progress in any recipe. - COLLECT your recipes in your pocket and take them anywhere. - SHARE your favorite recipes with friends, family, and other baking enthusiasts. - keep TRACK of your SOURDOUGHS. - receive REMINDERS for feeding your sourdoughs. - receive REMINDERS for progressing with your running recipes. I've always been a little intimidated by baking bread for family or friends, because the risk of forgetting something is high, and making sure your bread is ready at the exact time you need it can be difficult to plan. Still, I've been baking bread for over 4 years now and finally tackled the problem with planning recipes once and for all. After sharing it with a couple of friends and online, I realized just how many people craved such an app, so I decided to add some more features to the beta and release it. So now, here we are. I sincerely hope you will enjoy the app! If you have any questions, ideas, or want to get in touch, head over to https://breadme.app. Looking forward to hearing from you, Ferdinand, Developer of BreadMe
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 price: Levain at Free against BreadMe's $2.99. Levain also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 79%). BreadMe's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ratings volume (40 vs 4). On rating, update cadence, ads 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
Levain is free to download; BreadMe costs $2.99 up front. Levain sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. BreadMe asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for BreadMe against 4.8 for Levain. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BreadMe has 40 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of BreadMe's written reviews are positive against 100% of Levain's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on September 22, 2026.
| Parameter | BreadMe | Levain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (40 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #162 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ferdinand Werner | Michael Klug |
Customer experience
BreadMe
Levain
In-app purchases
BreadMe
No in-app purchases
Levain
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
