Comparison

Levain vs Sourdough Score

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Recipe management
  • Sourdough starter maintenance
  • Baking step tracking
  • Customizable notifications
  • Home and lock screen widgets
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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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.

About

Sourdough Score

Features
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Score is a sourdough bake tracker built for the kitchen — for the moments when your hands are floury, the timer just chimed, and you're trying to remember how long the last one sat on the counter. It walks you through every bake in five clear stages, from starter build to the final score sheet: • Build the starter — log your starter, water, and flour; set a reminder for when to check on it • Mix the dough — track measurements, flour, stretch & folds, and bulk fermentation • Cold proof — long, slow, patient • Bake — preheat, covered, uncovered, each with their own timer • Rest and score — rate your loaf across crust, crumb, rise, texture, and flavor Every bake gets a photo, a timestamp, and your honest assessment of how the dough looked at each stage. Stretch-and-fold timers run on their own schedule. Timers fire even when the app is closed. When a bake finishes, Score gives it a composite rating out of five. Over time, your loaves tell their own story. — FREE, NO LIMITS — Start a bake. Photograph your starter at 4 AM. Time your folds. Score every loaf. All free, forever. No ads. — SCORE COACH (OPTIONAL) — The free version covers everything you need to bake well. Score Coach adds: • The bake journal — every finished bake opens as a full record: your photos, the formula with its hydration, and every stage with its timings, rise and notes • The numbers you actually used — oven temperature, baking vessel, flour, stretch & folds, hours on the counter and in the fridge • Bake this again — start a new bake from a past one, and make those numbers your own starting point • Share a bake — turn a finished loaf and its score into a picture you can send • Every bake you've scored, kept for as long as you want it Available as a monthly or yearly subscription with a 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime in your subscription settings. — MADE FOR NOVICES, USEFUL FOR EVERYONE — You don't need to know what autolyse means. Score uses plain language for every step. If something looks off — your starter hasn't risen, your dough's behaving strangely, your loaf came out dense — the app meets you where you are. No shame, no jargon. — YOUR DATA IS YOURS — Photos, measurements, and notes live in your own private account. Score doesn't sell or share your data, and won't train AI models on your bakes without your explicit permission. Made with care by Timeless Links.

Screenshots

Levain4 screens
Sourdough Score4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sourdough Score at every 4 days against Levain's every 2 weeks. Sourdough Score also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Levain sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Sourdough Score sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Levain ships an update every 2 weeks, Sourdough Score every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Levain versus Sourdough Score: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLevainSourdough Score
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael KlugMiriam Pappas

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Levain

One-time3
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
2 purchases

Sourdough Score

Subscriptions2
  • Score Coach Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Score Coach Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Levain free?
Levain is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sourdough Score free?
Sourdough Score is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Levain or Sourdough Score have ads?
Neither Levain nor Sourdough Score shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Levain or Sourdough Score?
Levain ships an update every 2 weeks, and Sourdough Score every 4 days. Most recently, Levain was updated on October 19, 2026 and Sourdough Score on September 30, 2026.

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