Sourdough Hydration Calc vs Levain
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.
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 review sentiment: Levain at 100% against Sourdough Hydration Calc's 46%. Levain also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months). Sourdough Hydration Calc's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Levain sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Sourdough Hydration Calc asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sourdough Hydration Calc holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 46% of Sourdough Hydration Calc's written reviews are positive against 100% of Levain's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Sourdough Hydration Calc ships an update every 4 months, Levain every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 18, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sourdough Hydration Calc | Levain |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 46.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Evan Winograd | Michael Klug |
Customer experience
Sourdough Hydration Calc
Levain
In-app purchases
Sourdough Hydration Calc
No in-app purchases
Levain
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
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