Artisan Bread Maker vs Sourdough Hydration Calc
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Artisan Bread Maker
This app allows experienced bakers to meticulously record, edit, and scale their unique bread recipes. Track detailed notes, photos of your creations, and rate your bakes. Share your culinary masterpieces with others via email or export them to a compatible device.
- Enter new recipes
- Edit existing recipes
- Scale recipes for different quantities
- Display percentages and hydration rates
- Store baking notes and photos
- Rate bread recipes
- Email and export recipes
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For the artisan bread maker wanting to track the details of his artistry. Please Note: This is not a compendium of existing bread recipes! It does enable the accomplished baker to: •Enter new recipes •Edit Recipes •Create new recipes using existing ones as a template •Scale recipes for various quantities of finished product •Display percentages and hydration rates •Store and display baking notes •Take and store photos of the breads and their “crumb” •Rate bread recipes •Email recipes to others •Sort recipes by date, name, and rating •Export a bread recipe to an iPad running its Artisan Bread app
Sourdough Hydration Calc
Easily calculate sourdough hydration percentages for your baking recipes. Save your favorite recipes, oven temperatures, and baking times. This tool simplifies the process of creating perfect sourdough.
- Hydration percentage calculation
- Recipe saving
- Oven temperature saving
- Baking time saving
- Notes section
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** New - Save recipes, oven temperature, time, notes ** Easy to use sourdough hydration calculator. Easy to use bread hydration calculator. Enter Starter, Flour, and Water to calculate hydration percentage.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sourdough Hydration Calc at 5.0 against Artisan Bread Maker's 3.5. Sourdough Hydration Calc also leads on monetization model (free vs paid). Artisan Bread Maker's advantage is review sentiment (68% vs 46%) and ratings volume (10 vs 2). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sourdough Hydration Calc holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Artisan Bread Maker has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of Artisan Bread Maker's written reviews are positive against 46% of Sourdough Hydration Calc's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and August 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Artisan Bread Maker | Sourdough Hydration Calc |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.9% of reviews — better | 46.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jacqueline Ghosin | Evan Winograd |
Customer experience
Artisan Bread Maker
Sourdough Hydration Calc
In-app purchases
Artisan Bread Maker
No in-app purchases
Sourdough Hydration Calc
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Artisan Bread Maker free?
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