PizzaDose vs PizzaPlan

Great pizza starts with the right dough. PizzaDose calculates it to the gram, follows it hour by hour, and now answers your questions with an AI that never leaves your iPhone. ASK THE MAESTRO — PRIVATE, ON-DEVICE AI Is it rising enough? Can I bake an hour earlier? What if the kitchen is warmer than planned? Ask the maestro. It knows the dough you have going — style, amounts, timing, phase, measured rise — and the latest notes in your Notebook, and it answers in seconds. It runs entirely on device with Apple Intelligence: no account, no server, no data leaving your phone. It even works offline. DESIGNED FOR IPHONE DUO Open iPhone Duo and PizzaDose opens with it: a wide layout with navigation, screen and your Bench side by side. The calculator puts the amounts next to the parameters, the Notebook shows grid and detail together, the maestro keeps your dough panel beside the conversation, and Oven mode gets a large dial with the controls alongside. Close it and you're back to the iPhone layout, instantly. The same layout comes to iPad. THE DOUGH, CALCULATED RIGHT Pick a style — Neapolitan, Contemporary, Thin Roman, Peel & Pinsa, Roman Pan, Milanese Pan — and set dough balls, ball weight, hydration and temperature. PizzaDose works out flour, water, salt, oil and yeast, adapting the yeast to time, temperature and fridge. Or start from the end: tell it when you want to bake and it plans backwards. YOUR DOUGH, HOUR BY HOUR Start a dough with one tap. Home shows your doughs in progress with phase, countdown and bake time; notifications remind you of every step — dividing, fridge, reactivation, proof, preheating, baking — and a Live Activity keeps the next step on your Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island. RISE METER Photograph the container at the start and again later: line up base and surface, and PizzaDose measures how much your dough has grown, with doubling as a rough target. OVEN MODE A full-screen bake metronome, pizza by pizza: time per pizza and turns with starting values for each style and oven, haptics and sound at every turn, "Pizza 2 of 4". Always dark, screen always on. NOTEBOOK After the bake, tell how it went: rating, note and photo. Every dough is archived with its amounts and fermentation — tap "Make it again" to reload the same recipe. And share a postcard of your best pizza. SIRI AND CONTROL CENTER "How's my dough?" — ask without opening the app. Mark a phase as done, turn on Oven mode, open the timer from Control Center. AND MORE Gourmet recipes with filters by style and ingredient, cooking guidance for every oven, step-by-step techniques and a precise timer. In 10 languages, with a light theme and a warm dark theme. The maestro requires a device compatible with Apple Intelligence and a supported language. Answers are generated automatically and may be inaccurate.

No ads. No subscription. No tracking. No account. PizzaPlan calculates your pizza dough to the gram, fully offline, GDPR compliant and in six hand-maintained languages. You enter the number of pizzas, hydration and fermentation time. The app works out flour, water, salt, oil and yeast (fresh or dry) exactly: based on baker's percentages, with a yeast curve by fermentation time and temperature, and profiles for over 200 flours. AD-FREE, NO SUBSCRIPTION, NO ACCOUNT PizzaPlan has never had ads or a subscription, the full version is a one-off purchase for €2.99. No analytics, no sign-up: all data stays local. Developed in Germany, translated by hand: DE, EN, ES, IT, NL, FR. REVERSE SCHEDULER You say when the pizza should be on the table. PizzaPlan works out every step backwards, from mixing to the oven. If there is time to spare, it suggests a longer fermentation. Shift the start by arrow or to a time you pick (Pro): the baking time stays, fermentation and yeast follow. Plus calendar, reminders and PDF. BAKE DAYS (PRO) Several dates and several doughs per bake day, say pizza and focaccia one after another in the wood-fired oven. Each dough has its own ready time, the app warns about oven overlaps and can move the whole bake day. All steps in one list. PIZZA STYLES 10 styles: Neapolitan, New York style, Romana, sheet-pan pizza, pan pizza, Detroit style, Sicilian al taglio, Chicago deep dish, Pinsa Romana and focaccia. Every style brings its own hydration range, flour profile and schedule. GLUTEN-FREE BAKING Five gluten-free flours with their own calculation, not a converted wheat recipe: ready-made blend, rice, corn, cassava and chickpea flour, each with its own hydration, workflow and matching binder (xanthan, psyllium husk, chia, linseed or egg). PRE-FERMENTS & SOURDOUGH - Sourdough (free): build a levain or add the madre directly, starter hydration 30-125 %, share adjustable, with or without yeast support. - Biga (Pro): firm pre-ferment, 30-100 % share, ripening styles corta and lunga. - Poolish (Pro): liquid pre-ferment with precise yeast dosing, from 26 °C automatically in the fridge. - Li.Co.Li. (Pro): liquid Lievito Madre without commercial yeast, share set by room temperature. YEAST, FERMENTATION TIME & HOT-ROOM MODE Set room and fridge temperature independently, plan bulk proof and ball proof separately, and watch the yeast amount shift with every hour of fermentation. Works without a fridge too. HOT-ROOM MODE: from 26 °C the app shortens the bulk proof, moves the dough to the fridge and suggests cold kneading water. With ice water calculator. FLOUR 10 types for free, from Tipo 00 and Manitoba to whole spelt and whole wheat. In Pro, over 200 flour profiles (Caputo, Le 5 Stagioni, Petra and more) with recommended hydration, fermentation window and yeast correction. With catalogue search. Flour blend calculator (Pro): two types, total protein and W value. Your own flours (free): with protein, W value and hydration. SWEET YEAST DOUGHS 10 types beyond pizza: Germknödel, Dampfnudeln, Buchteln, sweet braid (free), plus Krapfen, cinnamon rolls, brioche, focaccia dolce, maritozzi and Butterzopf (Pro). EVERYDAY USE - Shopping list straight from the recipe, checkable - Save, share and import favourites - Logbook: results with photos, notes and rating, filters, tips with values, PDF export (Pro) - Starter profiles with feeding reminder (1 free), guide to maintaining and refreshing - Freeze dough balls, loss compensation, app backup, dark mode - Optimised for iPhone and iPad PRO A one-off €2.99 (no subscription) unlocks all flour brands, all pre-ferments incl. Li.Co.Li., the gluten-free flours, Pinsa Romana, Chicago deep dish, focaccia, the adjustable start time and all sweet Pro doughs. Future Pro features included. PizzaPlan comes from Forstinning near Munich, built by Christoph, home pizza baker with a wood-fired oven and an Effeuno P134H. The values in the app are the ones he uses himself.