Sourdough Hydration Calc vs Baker Buddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sourdough Hydration Calc
Easily calculate sourdough hydration percentages for your baking recipes. Save your favorite recipes, oven temperatures, and baking times. This tool simplifies the process of creating perfect sourdough.
- Hydration percentage calculation
- Recipe saving
- Oven temperature saving
- Baking time saving
- Notes section
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** New - Save recipes, oven temperature, time, notes ** Easy to use sourdough hydration calculator. Easy to use bread hydration calculator. Enter Starter, Flour, and Water to calculate hydration percentage.
Baker Buddy
This app helps home bakers calculate ingredient weights using baker's percentages. Simply input your desired percentages and target weight, and it handles all the math for you. It also includes a multiplier for scaling recipes.
- Baker's percentage calculations
- Ingredient weight determination
- Target end weight input
- Recipe scaling multiplier
- Recipe storage and editing
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Baker Buddy is the app built by home bakers, for home bakers. When determining the correct formula for a recipe, bakers use baker's percentages — weights calculated as a percentage of the flour weight. This app allows a baker to simply enter their ingredient percentages and all the calculations are taken care of. Determining measurements for the perfect loaf of bread is tedious. With Baker Buddy all you have to do is enter your target end weight and the baker percentages of your ingredients. Instead of manually calculating your ingredients based on the weight of the flour, the app takes care of everything for you. There's even a handy multiplier feature for when you need to scale up. All of your recipes are stored in your phone for later editing and viewing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Sourdough Hydration Calc at Free against Baker Buddy's $0.99. Sourdough Hydration Calc also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). Baker Buddy's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 46%) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 13.0). 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
Sourdough Hydration Calc is free to download; Baker Buddy costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sourdough Hydration Calc holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 1 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 46% of Sourdough Hydration Calc's written reviews are positive against 75% of Baker Buddy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Sourdough Hydration Calc | Baker Buddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evan Winograd | Joshua Piedimonte |
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Sourdough Hydration Calc
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In-app purchases
Sourdough Hydration Calc
No in-app purchases
Baker Buddy
No in-app purchases
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