Comparison

DoughLab vs Pizza Planner

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

Head to head
About

DoughLab

Connect with fellow pizza enthusiasts to share recipes, showcase your creations, and discover new techniques. Experiment with dough, sauces, and toppings, and save your favorite pizza inspirations from a global community.

Highlights
  • Share pizza recipes
  • Upload homemade pizza photos
  • Track recipe experiments
  • Discover community feed
  • Save favorite recipes
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Make better homemade pizza with a dough calculator, personalized AI recipes, fermentation guidance, and a built-in baking timer. DOUGH CALCULATOR Choose Neapolitan, New York, Sicilian, or sourdough. Adjust flour, hydration, and yeast to plan your pizza dough, then get suggested fermentation and cook times. AI PIZZA RECIPES Pick the ingredients you have and generate a personalized pizza recipe with clear ingredients and step-by-step instructions. Explore classic Italian combinations or create something completely new. FERMENTATION GUIDANCE Compare dough styles, account for cold fermentation, and get an estimated fermentation window for your recipe. BAKING TIMER Keep your bake on track with a simple pizza timer and suggested cooking times for each dough style. BUILT FOR HOME PIZZA MAKERS Whether you are learning hydration or refining your favorite homemade crust, DoughLab keeps your calculator, recipe inspiration, and timing tools together in one app. Turn flour, water, yeast, and your favorite toppings into your next great pizza.

About

Pizza Planner

Easily scale pizza dough recipes for your next party. Includes tested recipes and tips for backyard or home ovens. Save custom recipes and party details.

Highlights
  • Dough recipe scaling
  • Backyard pizza oven recipes
  • Home oven recipes
  • Add custom recipes
  • Store party details
  • Planning tips
Features
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Do you want to plan the perfect backyard pizza party? This app is for you!   The app gives you a simple, easy to use tool to scale dough recipes to match the number of pizzas you want to prepare. Most importantly, it comes with well-tested recipes for dough yield consistent results in a backyard pizza oven or in a home oven with a pizza stone. The app provides you the ability to add your own recipes and stores details about parties you designed using the app. Finally, there's a set of tips that will help you plan ahead and ensure success. The dough calculations are based on what is known as baker's percentages (percent of flour by weight). To successfully use this type of recipe, you need a digital scale that measures in grams.

Screenshots

DoughLab4 screens
Pizza Planner4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Pizza Planner at 17.6 against DoughLab's 27.0. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. DoughLab sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Pizza Planner sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DoughLab against 5.0 for Pizza Planner. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

DoughLab ships an update every 3 weeks, Pizza Planner fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
DoughLab versus Pizza Planner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDoughLabPizza Planner
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS27.017.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicolas RiosRickey Carter

Customer experience

DoughLab

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pizza Planner

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

DoughLab

Subscriptions2
  • Premium(Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Premium(Annual)$40.001 Year
One-time3
  • SmallTip$2.99
  • MediumTip$4.99
  • Large$19.99
4 purchases

Pizza Planner

One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Enable premium features$0.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
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  • Large tip$14.99

Questions

Is DoughLab free?
DoughLab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pizza Planner free?
Pizza Planner is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, DoughLab or Pizza Planner?
DoughLab and Pizza Planner are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do DoughLab or Pizza Planner have ads?
Neither DoughLab nor Pizza Planner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, DoughLab or Pizza Planner?
DoughLab ships an update every 3 weeks, and Pizza Planner fortnightly. Most recently, DoughLab was updated on October 11, 2026 and Pizza Planner on October 8, 2026.

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