PizzaDose vs PizzaLab

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.

PizzaLab is the scientific pizza dough calculator every pizza maker should have. Enter your parameters and get the calculated ingredients, the recommended water temperature and a detailed step-by-step method, with leavening timers built in. PIZZA STYLES • Pizza Napoletana Verace (AVPN 2024 specification) • Pizza Contemporanea (contemporary Neapolitan) • Pizza in Teglia (pan pizza, APITER specification) • Pizza Pala Romana (APITER specification) • Schiacciata Toscana • Pizza Fritta Napoletana (fried, AVPN specification) • Casatiello Napoletano, calculated from your ring pan size CALCULATION • Guided 4-step wizard • Direct method, indirect with biga, indirect with poolish (yeast from the Giorilli table) • Room-temperature fermentation or fridge + room temperature • Mixer type with automatic temperature delta (by hand, fork, spiral, planetary) • Fresh or dry yeast • Compliance indicators for the official specifications • Metric and imperial units LEAVENING TIMERS • At the end of each phase the timer stops and waits for your confirmation before starting the next one, with a reminder if you forget • Live Activity on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island with Pause, Resume and Start next phase buttons • Alarm at phase end (iOS 26.1 or later): rings like a system alarm even on silent or in a Focus mode • Siri and Shortcuts: "Start the next phase in PizzaLab", "Pause the PizzaLab timer", "How long is left in PizzaLab" • Notifications with a 10-minute heads-up before the end of each phase PLAN YOUR BAKE • Pick the date and time you want to bake: the app works backwards to tell you when to mix, refrigerate and divide, including rests and folds • Reminders 15 minutes before and at the time to start METHOD AND RECIPES • Detailed method with interactive checkboxes; the screen stays on while you follow it • Save your own recipes • PDF export and share as text • Flour guide and glossary of technical terms LANGUAGES AND ACCESSIBILITY • English and Italian: the Neapolitan technical terms are kept in Italian with a plain explanation, e.g. "puntata (bulk fermentation)" • VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion CALCULATIONS • Yeast formula based on temperature, time and hydration, with equivalent hours for cold fermentation • Water temperature from room, flour and mixer temperatures • Parameters aligned with the AVPN 2024 and APITER specifications Coming from version 1.x? Timers no longer move to the next phase on their own: when a phase ends they ask you to confirm, so the timing follows what you actually do. PizzaLab works fully offline, with no account, no ads and no data collection.