Comparison

DoughCalc vs Italian Food Decoder

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

Head to head
About

DoughCalc

Easily convert Baker's Percentages to ingredient masses for baking and pizza dough. Save custom recipes, add notes, and scale recipes to different dough ball sizes. Supports both ounces and grams.

Highlights
  • Baker's Percentage conversion
  • Ingredient mass calculation
  • Save custom recipes
  • Customizable ingredients
  • Recipe notes
  • Scale recipes
  • Ounces and grams support
Features
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Do you like to make dough? Have you ever needed to convert a Baker's Percentage into ingredient masses when making dough? Have you been looking on the App Store for something like this for a while? Then you’re like me, and this is the tool for you! Pizza and bread dough recipes can use Baker's Percentages. Baker's Percentages are used to make more consistent recipes by specifying the ratios of the ingredient masses. One cup of sifted flour does not weigh the same as one cup of unsifted flour. But 100g of flour will always be 100g of flour. Baker's Percentages are also easy to scale to different dough ball sizes. With this app you can include up to 8 ingredients in your recipes. You can also save your favorite recipes for future reference. The ingredients list is customizable so you can add detail about your ingredients. For example, if your recipe calls for Instant Dry Yeast instead of Active Dry Yeast then you can include that. Additionally, if you know the masses of your ingredients, you can also use this tool to convert your recipe into Baker's Percentages for easy scaling to different sizes. You can also add notes for reference that will be saved with each recipe. Supports ounces and grams.

About

Italian Food Decoder

Instantly translate Italian food names, terms, and phrases. Explore in-depth entries with background, origins, and pairings for dishes and ingredients. Navigate menus and discover regional specialties with this comprehensive culinary guide.

Highlights
  • Instant food term translations
  • In-depth dish and ingredient entries
  • Background and origin information
  • Regional specialty discovery
  • Menu deciphering tool
  • Market and recipe assistance
Features
Currently charting
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The ITALIAN FOOD DECODER is the perfect companion for exploring the world of Italian cuisine. This app provides instant translations of all the food names, terms and phrases commonly used in cooking. And it's much more than just a dictionary. In-depth entries for all the important words offer background, with descriptions of what's in a dish, where it came from, what goes good with it and who does it best. The ITALIAN FOOD DECODER is comprehensive—some 6,000 words in all, including dialect words and local dishes from every region of Italy. The advanced search function allows you to instantly find the Italian word for anything, and easy navigation lets you puzzle through any restaurant menu in a snap. With so many regional styles and specialities, Italian cooking can be awfully mystifying (we've found over twenty words for chanterelle mushrooms), but this app will help you sort out the local peculiarities as well as the hundreds of varieties of cheeses, charcuterie, fish, pasta shapes and the rest. The ITALIAN FOOD DECODER is an education in everything Italian in a fun, accessible form. Whether you're a first-time visitor or a seasoned Italophile, it is bound to increase your enjoyment and appreciation of one of the world's great cuisines. Buon appetito! • Over 2000 articles for the most important dishes and specialities • Special lists of cookware and tableware words, cuts of meat, cheese and wine terms and other topics • Links to food sites, blogs and recipes, and to Italian food festivals • Take it to the market and learn what you're looking at • Use it to decipher real Italian recipes • Lists DOC foods, and local specialities in the Slow Food 'Presidium' (was Ark of Taste) * About the Authors * Dana Facaros and Michael Pauls are the authors of twenty-six Cadogan Guides covering every town and region of Italy; in 2018 they published the detailed Bradt Northern Italy: Emilia-Romagna guide and in 2019, their Bradt guide to Friuli Venezia Giulia was the first in English to the region; currently they are working on the Bradt guide to Umbria and Le Marche. They started back in 1986, bringing up their children in a tiny Umbrian village while exploring the country. Italy soon had its way with them, turning them (and the children) into hopeless, unrepentant foodies. In their travels, they always enjoyed taking notes on regional specialities and obscure delights, and these became the basis of this app.

Screenshots

DoughCalc3 screens
Italian Food Decoder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Italian Food Decoder at 4.9 against DoughCalc's 4.3. Italian Food Decoder also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 50 months) and review sentiment (92% vs 64%). DoughCalc's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $5.99) and iOS requirement (9.2 vs 15.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and chart position 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

DoughCalc costs $0.99 and Italian Food Decoder $5.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Italian Food Decoder holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Italian Food Decoder has 59 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 64% of DoughCalc's written reviews are positive against 92% of Italian Food Decoder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DoughCalc ships an update every 50 months, Italian Food Decoder every 5 months. Both last shipped on October 26, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
DoughCalc versus Italian Food Decoder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoughCalcItalian Food Decoder
Price$0.99 — better$5.99
Rating4.3 (11 ratings)4.9 (59 ratings) — better
Positive reviews63.6% of reviews91.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1159 — better
Update frequencyEvery 50 monthsEvery 5 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#115#90 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS9.2 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB183 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMartin BietiAgorite

Customer experience

DoughCalc

All ratings11 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral18.2%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral18.2%
Negative18.2%

Italian Food Decoder

All ratings58 ratings
Positive98.3%
Neutral1.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive91.7%
Neutral2.8%
Negative5.6%

In-app purchases

None

DoughCalc

No in-app purchases

None

Italian Food Decoder

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DoughCalc free?
DoughCalc costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Italian Food Decoder free?
Italian Food Decoder costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DoughCalc or Italian Food Decoder?
Italian Food Decoder is rated higher. DoughCalc averages 4.3 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Italian Food Decoder averages 4.9 from 59 ratings.
Do DoughCalc or Italian Food Decoder have ads?
Neither DoughCalc nor Italian Food Decoder shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DoughCalc or Italian Food Decoder?
DoughCalc ships an update every 50 months, and Italian Food Decoder every 5 months. Most recently, DoughCalc was updated on October 26, 2026 and Italian Food Decoder on October 26, 2026.
Which is more popular, DoughCalc or Italian Food Decoder?
DoughCalc currently peaks at #115 in the App Store charts, and Italian Food Decoder at #90. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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