Comparison

iSourdough vs Perch Pot

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

Head to head
About

iSourdough

Features
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Are you fond of making Sourdough Bread? It is a fascinating process to create your own Sourdough Starter. The process of trail and error, identifying issues, adjust and find your own way. Along these processes, you might have forgotten a feeding time? Forgotten the amount of flour and water added? Or at a point losing patience facing these repetitive steps? This App aims to support you during creation of your own Sourdough Starter and Sourdough bread. First choose a Sourdough recipe. Follow the feeding schedule, then record every detail and changes with iSourdough app. Trust that you will be able to make a delicious Sourdough bread which will add a healthy component to your diet. 1. Ingredients maintenance. Ingredients needed for building Sourdough Starter, or making a Sourdough Bread is fairly simple. Preset ingredients you usually use would make follow-on process recording easier. For a quick start there are preset ingredients which you can make use of. 2. Sourdough Starter schedule maintenance. Give a name to your Sourdough Starter! At the same time create a project with initial detail, including weight of the bottle, remarks and notes. 3. Record all steps in building a Sourdough Starter. Keep track of the process by recording ingredients and weight used, total and discarded weight, growing temperature, your own study notes and a photo. Set the time when you plan to feed your Sourdough Starter next. You will get a notification in your phone. 4. Create and maintain schedule of making a Sourdough bread. Set a project name and ingredients used. Then record all steps of mixing, kneading, proofing and baking. To keep you on the track, you will get a reminder at planned next step! 5. Export your successful (or can be improved) schedule recordings via e-mail for easy reference.

About

Perch Pot

Organize and track all your pottery projects with this pocket-sized app. Document glazes, stages, and techniques with photos and notes, all searchable. Customize your workflow and easily recover deleted items.

Highlights
  • Search, sort, and filter projects
  • Photo documentation for work
  • Automatic iCloud sync and backup
  • Customizable project stages and forms
  • Track glazes, clays, and techniques
  • Capture project ideas
  • Undo delete functionality
Features
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Organize your pottery work with an app that's always in your pocket. Track glazes with a tap, document what works (or doesn't) with a photo, and have it all searchable. Perch Pot helps you track everything about your pottery projects: • Search, sort, filter — Full text search for your notes, sort by what stage your project is at, or filter to a particular clay or custom tag • Photos — Pictures help you remember your work like nothing else, so they're front and center right alongside your notes • Automatic sync — Out of the box backup and syncing for all your projects privately on your iCloud account • Optimized workflows — Everything you track should be quick and painless so you can get back to making • Customize everything — What stages do you want to track your projects through? What glazes does your studio have? Customize stages, forms, clays, decorative techniques, glazes, and custom tags • Ideas — Capture project ideas like a neat decorative technique or a good glaze combo in a separate section • Undo delete — Anything you delete can be found and recovered from the recently deleted section of settings • Export your data — You shouldn't be locked into an app, so you can always export all your photos and data (and import data from elsewhere) I built the app I wanted to use for my pottery, and it's really improved how I work. Perch Pot will always be free so anyone can bring a bit more beauty into this world. Happy potting!

Screenshots

iSourdough4 screens
Perch Pot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Perch Pot at Free against iSourdough's $3.99. iSourdough's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Perch Pot is free to download; iSourdough costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

iSourdough ships an update weekly, Perch Pot every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
iSourdough versus Perch Pot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameteriSourdoughPerch Pot
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating—3.4 (37 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—86.8% of reviews
Number of ratings—37 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developertdtom LouJeffrey Mohan

In-app purchases

None

iSourdough

No in-app purchases

None

Perch Pot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is iSourdough free?
iSourdough costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Perch Pot free?
Perch Pot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do iSourdough or Perch Pot have ads?
Neither iSourdough nor Perch Pot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, iSourdough or Perch Pot?
iSourdough ships an update weekly, and Perch Pot every 2 months. Most recently, iSourdough was updated on September 25, 2026 and Perch Pot on October 24, 2026.

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