Comparison

Loafer vs Sourdough Tracker

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Loafer

This app guides you through making sourdough bread, from starter care to baking. It provides timely feeding reminders for your starter and calculates precise ingredient ratios for your loaves. Integrated timers and step tracking help you manage the entire baking process.

Highlights
  • Sourdough starter care and feeding reminders
  • Automatic ingredient ratio calculation
  • Adjustable hydration and ingredient ratios
  • Baking timers and step tracking
  • Home screen widgets
  • Live Activities for lock screen timers
Features
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A companion for making a sourdough loaf, making and caring for your starter. Look after your sourdough starter, and get alerts when it's time to feed it. Track whether you keep it on the counter or in the fridge (when chilly, your starter needs feeding less often). Loafer makes sure you don't forget to feed your pride and joy and leave it languishing in the back of the fridge. When you want to bake, Loafer automatically works out the ratios of flour, water, starter and salt you need.. you can tweak hydration levels and the ratios of starter and salt to flour, Loafer does the maths for you! Use the handy timers and step trackers as you go through the process of mixing and baking a sourdough loaf from scratch. You can opt in to notifications and Live Activities on your phone. There are two Widgets to put on your home screen : The first reminds you when it's time to feed your starter. The second keeps track of your making and baking timers, so you never miss a step! Opt in to Live Activities on your iPhone to see your baking timers on the lock screen...

About

Sourdough Tracker

Track your sourdough starter feedings, predict its peak, and time your bread baking phases. Document every loaf, recipe, and starter activity in a personal baking journal. Understand fermentation and hydration to improve your bakes.

Highlights
  • Log starter feedings and discards
  • Predict starter peak times
  • Time bake phases with live timers
  • Document homemade loaves
  • Store sourdough recipes
  • Kitchen Mode for hands-free baking
  • Live Activity and widget support
Features
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Crumb is a sourdough starter tracker and baking companion for home bakers who love the ritual of making real, artisan bread. Log your daily starter feedings, learn when your sourdough starter peaks, time every phase of your dough, and keep a record of every homemade loaf in one place. Whether you are nurturing your very first starter or baking weekly for family and friends, Crumb keeps a clear history of your bread making: feedings and discards, dough preparation steps, your go-to baking recipes, and timers from autolyse through the final bake. By tracking your own process you start to understand fermentation timing, hydration ratios, proofing windows, and how small adjustments shape the final crumb. FREE • Sourdough starter tracker: one starter with a feeding timeline. Log every feeding and discard, and watch its activity build up. • Bread baking log: record up to 2 bakes with recipe notes, observations and dough preparation details. • Recipe keeper: save one bread recipe, bread machine recipes included, to come back to whenever you bake. • Feeding calculator: the starter, water and flour ratio maths, on its own tab. • Bulk fermentation calculator: estimate bulk timing from your dough temperature. • Kitchen bake timers: autolyse, bulk fermentation, proofing and the bake itself. • Your data is yours: export starters, bakes and recipes to CSV at any time, free on every plan. CRUMB+ • Unlimited starters, bakes and recipes. • Kitchen Mode: a large-type, hands-free companion for floury fingers. It walks you through any saved recipe step by step, runs a starter feeding helper, and keeps the screen awake. • Live bake tracking: follow your loaf phase by phase while it bakes, without unlocking your phone. • Peak-time predictions: Crumb learns when your starter peaks from your own temperature and feeding history, then tells you when the window is open. • Feeding reminders: a nudge when each starter is due. • Feeding ratio and temperature logging: the exact ratio and dough temperature behind every feeding. • Sourdough hydration calculator: water, levain, flour and salt weights from any formula, with a built-in sourdough bread calculator. • Bake and starter photos: every stage of your loaf, from the bubbly rise to the final scoring, plus a photo of your jar on the starter profile and on any single feeding. • Bake rating and scoring: crust, crumb, ear, flavor and rise. • Bake statistics: hydration trends, flour usage and baking frequency. • Feeding streaks and milestones. • Recipe Box: import a curated library of tested sourdough recipes. • Share cards and bread reports: shareable cards of your proudest bakes, and a full bread report as a PDF. No account. No ads. No analytics. Your baking records stay on your device. Crumb+ is available weekly, monthly, yearly, or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. A 3-day free trial is offered on the Monthly and Yearly plans. Prices are shown in the app before you buy. Bake, learn, improve. One loaf at a time. Privacy Policy: https://creativeadventureslab.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-Crumb-Sourdough-Tracker-3239f4ad1ce9809e9fafc8016de4f06b Terms of Use: https://creativeadventureslab.notion.site/Terms-of-Use-Crumb-Sourdough-Tracker-3359f4ad1ce98042b0bee4f9c91a2d35 Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Loafer4 screens
Sourdough Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sourdough Tracker at Free against Loafer's $0.99. Sourdough Tracker also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). Loafer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and chart position (#195 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Sourdough Tracker is free to download; Loafer costs $0.99 up front. Sourdough Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Loafer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Loafer against 5.0 for Sourdough Tracker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Loafer ships an update every 6 days, Sourdough Tracker every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Loafer versus Sourdough Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoaferSourdough Tracker
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
Best chart rank#195 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB75 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperColin GrenfellCREATIVE ADVENTURES LAB

Customer experience

Loafer

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Sourdough Tracker

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Loafer

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Sourdough Tracker

Subscriptions3
  • Crumb : Sourdough Tracker Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Crumb : Sourdough Tracker Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Crumb+ : Sourdough Tracker Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Crumb Lifetime Unlock$39.99

Questions

Is Loafer free?
Loafer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sourdough Tracker free?
Sourdough Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Loafer or Sourdough Tracker?
Loafer and Sourdough Tracker are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Loafer or Sourdough Tracker have ads?
Neither Loafer nor Sourdough Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Loafer or Sourdough Tracker?
Loafer ships an update every 6 days, and Sourdough Tracker every 2 weeks. Most recently, Loafer was updated on October 29, 2026 and Sourdough Tracker on October 28, 2026.

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