Yeasta vs HungryDemocracy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Yeasta
Easily manage your sourdough starters, log feedings, and schedule maintenance. This companion app helps both beginners and experienced bakers track fermentation, store recipes, and receive timely reminders for a stress-free baking experience.
- Track multiple sourdough starters
- Log feedings with details
- Set feeding reminders
- View feeding history and trends
- Store and organize recipes
- Includes timer capabilities
- Supports light and dark mode
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Yeasta is the sourdough companion that knows what's next. Whether you're nurturing your first culture or juggling four starters at once, Yeasta keeps every feeding, every bake, and every outcome in one place. Open the app and it tells you the one thing that matters most right now. KNOW WHAT'S NEXT Smart Today watches your starters and your bakes. Overdue feeding, starter nearing its peak, bake halfway through bulk — the Home screen surfaces the one thing you should do next, the moment you open the app. A running bake shows its time left in big numbers, every starter gets a bar showing how close it is to its peak, and a Coming up list lines up your next feedings and bake steps. BAKE WITH A GUIDE Start a guided bake from any recipe and Yeasta walks you through it step by step. Live timers tick on your lock screen so you can step away and never lose your place. Mark steps complete, add notes, log the outcome when the loaf comes out. CARE FOR EVERY STARTER Track rhythm, ratios, and readiness across every jar you keep. Log feedings in seconds. See which starters are peaking, which are napping, which need feeding right now. Edit or delete any log entry whenever you need to. RECIPES THAT TRAVEL WITH YOU Browse a growing sourdough library: classic country loaves, same-day breads, focaccia, pizza dough, and more. Scale any recipe by tap. Save your favorites. Start a guided session when you're ready. MATH MADE FOR BAKERS Built-in tools handle the math you used to do on the back of a napkin: hydration, baker's percentages, salt, levain ratios, starter scheduling, and temperature conversion. PRO TOOLS FOR SERIOUS BAKERS Five dedicated pro tools take your baking further: - Levain Builder: calculate exact flour, water, and starter ratios for any levain, with optional two-flour blending - What Can I Bake?: find recipes that match your starter, available time, and mood - split into "make now" and "plan ahead" - Fridge Starter Planner: generate a personalized fridge-to-bake timeline with automatic milestone reminders - Starter Revival: symptom-based revival plans with a day-by-day feeding schedule and notifications - Starter Smell Guide: diagnose your starter's health from eight common smell symptoms in seconds EVERY BAKE, REMEMBERED The Journal keeps every feeding, every bake, every outcome. Feedings read like a baker's log, and bakes of the same recipe line up side by side so you can see what changed. Search by name, or just scroll and remember that perfect loaf from last March. Want the raw numbers? Export the whole journal to one CSV file, free. YEASTA PRO - Fully guided bake sessions with live timers and lock screen updates - Unlimited starters - Advanced planning and revival tools - Full baking history, not just today - Unlimited favorite and custom recipes - New tools added continuously Monthly, annual, or Lifetime. Cancel anytime. BUILT WITH CARE No ads. No tracking. No data harvesting. Your baking is yours, backed up to your own iCloud and synced across your devices, free for everyone. Warm light and dark mode, Dynamic Island, Live Activities, Siri shortcuts: Yeasta feels like the rest of your phone. Yeasta may include Amazon affiliate links to baking tools, books, and ingredients. As an Amazon Associate, Yeasta earns from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. Built by one baker, for other bakers. Enjoy the rhythm! SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in iOS Settings > Apple ID > Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.mordsmith.com/apps/yeasta/privacy
HungryDemocracy
Explore and cook historical recipes from around the world, modernized for today's kitchens. Each dish comes with its original source and fascinating historical context, offering a unique culinary journey beyond generic recipe sites.
- Cook forgotten recipes
- Modernized instructions
- Real recipe provenance
- Recipe-to-recipe graph
- Browse by region, era, ingredient
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Cook the world's forgotten recipes. HungryDemocracy resurrects heritage and historical dishes — from Victorian-era cookbooks to handwritten family notes — and rewrites them so you can actually cook them tonight. Every recipe is traced to a real source and modernized for a present-day kitchen, without losing the story behind it. This isn't another feed of interchangeable recipes. It's a living archive of dishes the internet forgot. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT Real provenance. Every historical recipe is drawn from a named, verifiable source — public-domain cookbooks, regional culinary texts, and diaspora family traditions — not invented or guessed. Modernized to cook. Original recipes are restructured into clear ingredients, steps, times, and servings, so a 150-year-old dish becomes a Tuesday-night dinner. The story stays. Each recipe carries its history — where it came from, the era it belonged to, and why it's worth remembering. A deep, distinctive collection. Rich coverage of South Indian, Mughal-era, and colonial-era cooking, alongside heritage dishes from around the world. WHAT'S INSIDE Browse forgotten recipes by dish, region, era, and ingredient Cook from clean, modern instructions with ingredients, tools, prep and cook times, and servings Discover related dishes through a recipe-to-recipe graph WHO IT'S FOR Food-history enthusiasts. Diaspora cooks tracing family food. Anyone tired of generic recipe sites and AI-generated filler who wants something with roots. Cook the world's forgotten recipes. Start tonight.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: HungryDemocracy at 5.0 against Yeasta's 4.4. HungryDemocracy also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Yeasta's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 2). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Yeasta sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. HungryDemocracy asks for nothing beyond the download.
HungryDemocracy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Yeasta has 23 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Yeasta ships an update weekly, HungryDemocracy every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Yeasta | HungryDemocracy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mor Almalach | Sharath Ravindran |
Customer experience
Yeasta
HungryDemocracy
In-app purchases
Yeasta
- Yeasta Pro3 Days trial$12.991 Month
- Yeasta Pro Annual Offer$19.991 Year
- Yeasta Pro1 Year trial$39.991 Year
- You're Awesome!$3.99
- Yeasta Pro - Lifetime$69.99
HungryDemocracy
No in-app purchases
Questions
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