Comparison

PizzaDose vs Pizza Wizard

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

Head to head
About

PizzaDose

Features
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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 β€” 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 β€” style, amounts, timing, phase, measured rise β€” 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 β€” Neapolitan, Contemporary, Thin Roman, Peel & Pinsa, Roman Pan, Milanese Pan β€” 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 β€” dividing, fridge, reactivation, proof, preheating, baking β€” 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 β€” 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?" β€” 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.

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Pizza Wizard

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Pizza Wizard plans your pizza dough backwards from the moment the first pizza goes into the oven. It works out the yeast for your room and fridge temperatures and puts every hands-on step into the hours you are actually at home. Try every feature free for 7 days, then unlock Pizza Wizard with a one-time purchase. No subscription, no recurring costs. Saved plans stay fully usable after the trial. AROUND YOUR DAY Tell it when you want to eat and when you have time: afternoons and evenings, mornings and evenings, weekdays and weekends, or your own hours for each day. Mixing, balling and preheating land in those windows, and the long rests happen while you are out. If nothing fits, Pizza Wizard shows the smallest change that does, such as one pizza fewer, a slightly longer window or another style. FIVE STYLES Neapolitan (AVPN), modern Neapolitan, New York, Detroit and Chicago deep dish, each with its own fermentation profiles, from same-day doughs to cold ferments over several days. YEAST THAT FITS THE TIME Instant, active dry or fresh yeast, or sourdough, mixed directly or with a poolish or levain. The amount follows from the fermentation time and your temperatures, to a hundredth of a gram. Flours from Caputo, King Arthur and Le 5 Stagioni are built in, along with common flour types. A TIMELINE TO FOLLOW Every step with its time, what to do and how the dough should look. Tick steps off as you go, and a reminder arrives when the next one is due. Running late? The plan tells you whether the dough is ahead or behind and when it will be ready. OVEN AND BAKING Home oven or pizza oven, steel or stone and its thickness: Pizza Wizard works out how long the oven needs to preheat and how long baking all your pizzas takes. ON YOUR DEVICE Your plans stay on your iPhone or iPad. The app has no network access and no tracking, and it works in airplane mode. On iPad the timeline stays in view next to the ingredients. Available in 24 languages. Provider: BYTEPOTATO UG (haftungsbeschrΓ€nkt)

Screenshots

PizzaDose4 screens
Pizza Wizard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PizzaDose at none against Pizza Wizard's 2. PizzaDose also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Pizza Wizard's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Pizza Wizard sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. PizzaDose asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PizzaDose ships an update every 3 months, Pizza Wizard every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 3 level
PizzaDose versus Pizza Wizard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPizzaDosePizza Wizard
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 4 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 β€” better26.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size54 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperManuel MinelleBYTEPOTATO UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

In-app purchases

None

PizzaDose

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Pizza Wizard

One-time2
  • 7-day TrialFree
  • Full version$1.99

Questions

Is PizzaDose free?
PizzaDose is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pizza Wizard free?
Pizza Wizard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PizzaDose or Pizza Wizard have ads?
Neither PizzaDose nor Pizza Wizard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PizzaDose or Pizza Wizard?
PizzaDose ships an update every 3 months, and Pizza Wizard every 4 days. Most recently, PizzaDose was updated on October 24, 2026 and Pizza Wizard on October 29, 2026.

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