Fermento vs Bubbles
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fermento
Track and manage all your fermentation projects, from sourdough and cheese to kombucha and pickles. Features smart timelines, custom reminders, and helpful calculators for precise results. Includes advanced logging and export options for professional use.
- Unlimited fermentation batches
- Customizable timelines and milestones
- Smart reminders for tasks
- pH, salt %, and weight tracking
- Culture management
- HACCP decision-tree builder
- Recipe scaling calculators
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Fermento keeps pickles, sourdough, cheeses, kombucha, charcuterie and more on schedule with smart timelines, reminders, calculators and exportable logs—for beginners and pros. Projects & timelines - Unlimited batches with custom milestones and photo notes - pH, salt %, weight and observations—timestamped in one place - Smart reminders for feeds, flips, checks and cures Culture management - Starters, SCOBY hotels and kefir grains—health, feeds and lineage together HACCP (for pros) - Decision-tree builder for hazards and CCPs - Monitoring/verification logs with corrective actions - Export tidy PDFs for audits and compliance Calculators & scaling - Hydration, salt %, inoculation ratios and timing helpers - Instant scaling and saved methods Insights - Compare batches, spot trends and review pH/tempo curves - Equipment notes and calibration history (keep sensors honest) Why Fermento? Made by fermentation obsessives. Private, focused and practical—whether it's your first kimchi or a full curing chamber. Terms of Use: https://drobinin.com/apps/terms/fermento/
Bubbles
Track your home fermentation projects with recipes, reminders, and notes. This app helps you manage sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, and more, with options to create your own recipes and store your progress.
- Fermentation recipes
- Custom recipe creation
- Batch notes and photos
- Ferment archive
- Guides on fermentation
- Offline functionality
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Bubbles keeps track of your home fermentation. Pick a recipe, follow the steps, and get a reminder when it's time to burp, taste, or move the jar to the fridge. - Recipes for sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, sourdough starter, tepache and more - Write your own recipes, or import one from a website link or pasted text (Premium) - Add notes and photos to each batch, and look back at finished ferments in the archive - Back up your ferments, recipes and photos and restore them on a new phone (backup with Premium, restoring is free) - Guides on salt, acidity, temperature, mold vs kahm yeast, cleaning and storage Made in Europe Bubbles is built by a small team in Europe and designed around GDPR principles. You don't need an account, and the app works offline. Your data stays on your device unless you turn on cloud backup, which stores it on our servers in the EU. We never sell data. Privacy Policy: https://bubblesferment.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://bubblesferment.com/terms-of-service
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Bubbles at 5.0 against Fermento's 2.0. Bubbles also leads on iOS requirement (15.3 vs 17.0). Fermento's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Fermento sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per 7 days and Bubbles sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Bubbles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Fermento ships an update monthly, Bubbles every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fermento | Bubbles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.3 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 111 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Drobinin Limited | MANTAS LATKAUSKAS |
Customer experience
Fermento
Bubbles
In-app purchases
Fermento
- Fermentation Tracker Unlimited$3.997 Days
- Culture & Probiotic Pro$7.991 Month
- Fermentation Tracker Unlimited3 Days trial$59.991 Year
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- HACCP Safety Compliance Pro$179.991 Year
Bubbles
- Bubbles Premium Monthly$3.991 Month
- Bubbles Premium Annual1 Month trial$29.991 Year








