Sourdough Starter Tracker vs proofit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sourdough Starter Tracker
Easily track your sourdough starter's health and feeding schedule. Get smart reminders and safety alerts to ensure your starter thrives. Features include detailed logging, health monitoring, and a beginner's guide.
- Feeding logs
- Smart reminders
- Safety alerts
- Health monitoring
- Beginner's guide
- Feeding calculator
- Multiple starter management
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The simplest sourdough starter tracker — log feedings, set smart reminders, and keep your starter healthy with real-time safety alerts. No subscription, no AI gimmicks. Pay once, use forever. Works offline, no account needed. Built for home bakers who want to track their sourdough starter without complicated recipe apps or overcomplicated features. Just feeding logs, health tracking, smart alerts, and reliable reminders. FEATURES: • Safety Alerts (Free) – Instant pop-up warnings for the situations that matter most: unusual smell, overheating risk, no visible activity, and beginner SOS. Never lose a starter again. • Smart Health Tips (Premium) – In-depth analysis across 6 dimensions: temperature range, hydration ratio, smell diagnostics, rise timing, bubble activity, and feeding interval. Know exactly what your starter needs. • Before Baking Checklist – Run through your pre-bake routine before every loaf. Bake with confidence, every time. • Beginner's Guide – 10 essential topics covering everything a new baker needs to know, fully fact-checked and always accessible from the Tools section. • Never miss a feeding – Custom reminders based on your starter's status. Active starters get 12-hour reminders, refrigerated starters weekly, and dormant starters no reminders. • Track feeding history – Log every feeding with flour type or custom ingredients, feeding ratio (1:1:1, 1:2:2, custom), optional temperature, texture, and notes. • Quick Notes – Keep starter-specific reminders, flour details, hydration notes, or experiment details visible on the starter page. • Creation Day – Keep Day 1 separate from feeding logs so your calendar and feeding stats stay clean. • Starter health monitoring – Quick checkboxes for smell, rise quality, bubble activity, and optional texture. • Multiple starters – Manage unlimited starters with different schedules. Perfect for white, whole wheat, and rye starters simultaneously. • Feeding calendar – Visual monthly calendar showing all your feeding dates at a glance. • Frequency charts – Bar charts showing your feeding patterns over the last 30 days. • Feeding calculator – Calculate flour and water from your starter amount and chosen feeding ratio. • Custom ratios – Quick buttons for common ratios or create fully custom ratios for your specific needs. • Photo support – Add photos to each starter profile to track visual changes over time. • Status management – Mark starters as Active, Refrigerated, or Dormant to adjust reminder schedules automatically. • Notes – Add optional notes to each feeding for temperature, hydration details, or observations. Perfect for: • Daily sourdough bread baking • Artisan bakers managing multiple starters • Beginner bakers learning starter maintenance • Refrigerated starter maintenance schedules • Long-term starter health tracking • Preparing for weekend baking WHY SOURDOUGH STARTER TRACKER? • Simple and fast – Log feedings in under 10 seconds • No recipe clutter – Focused only on starter feeding and health • Real-time safety alerts – Know immediately when something's wrong • Works completely offline – No account, no internet required • No subscriptions – One-time purchase unlocks Smart Health Tips and removes ads • Built by sourdough bakers, for sourdough bakers Whether you're maintaining a decades-old family starter or just starting your sourdough journey, this tracker keeps your starter healthy and your feeding schedule on point. Keep your levain alive. Bake better bread. Made by QuickSeed Labs
proofit
Track your sourdough starter, plan bakes with automatic step-by-step guidance, and import recipes using AI. Includes 7 baking calculators and an AI assistant for personalized tips. Works offline for core features.
- Sourdough starter tracking
- Guided baking with timers
- AI recipe import
- 7 baking calculators
- AI baking assistant
- Offline functionality
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Pick a loaf, tap Bake, and proofit walks you through every step - with timers, reminders and your sourdough starter in one place. GUIDED BAKING Every step of your recipe, one at a time. Timers for every fold, proof and bake, a notification when it's time, and timed oven actions like releasing steam or removing the lid. Dough running fast or slow? Add or take away minutes and the whole schedule follows. LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN - NEW Your current step and timer stay on the lock screen and in the Dynamic Island, so you never have to unlock your phone with floury hands. STARTER TRACKING Log feedings, watch the rise live and see when your starter will peak. Smart reminders adapt to your schedule and to whether it lives on the counter or in the fridge. PLAN BACKWARDS Tell proofit when you want fresh bread and it works out when to start, based on your kitchen temperature and the hours you have. Build a levain with the right amounts at the right time. IMPORT ANY RECIPE Share a reel or post from social media, photograph a cookbook page, paste a link or type it in. proofit's AI turns it into a structured recipe with steps and timers while you watch. Even levain builds, soakers and overnight proofs come through cleanly. RECIPES THAT ADAPT Scale to any dough weight, swap flours, or turn a yeast recipe into a sourdough version - saved as a variant, your original stays untouched. Or start with proven classics like the Sourdough Boule, Focaccia and Bagels. REMEMBER WHAT WORKED Photos and notes from a bake show up at the same step next time, so every loaf learns from the last one. Rate your bakes and share them as cards. 7 BAKING CALCULATORS Hydration, scaling, flour swaps, yeast to sourdough, feed ratios, water temperature (DDT) and unit conversion. AI BAKING ASSISTANT Tips for your equipment and kitchen, help with a sluggish starter, answers mid-bake and a crumb analysis from a photo of your loaf. WORKS OFFLINE, SYNCS EVERYWHERE Starter tracking, guided baking, timers and calculators work without internet. Optional cloud backup keeps everything in sync across iPhone and iPad. Only AI features need a connection. FREE TO USE All core features are free - no account, no paywall for the basics. Premium unlocks more AI uses and a smarter model. Built by a home baker, for home bakers.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: proofit at none against Sourdough Starter Tracker's shown. proofit also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 92%). Sourdough Starter Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (33 vs 3) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Sourdough Starter Tracker sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and proofit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
proofit holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sourdough Starter Tracker has 33 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 92% of Sourdough Starter Tracker's written reviews are positive against 100% of proofit's.
Sourdough Starter Tracker ships an update every 6 days, proofit every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sourdough Starter Tracker | proofit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (33 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MyQuietSpot Inc. | Dominik Puchner |
Customer experience
Sourdough Starter Tracker
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In-app purchases
Sourdough Starter Tracker
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Premium$12.99
proofit
- proofit Premium Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- proofit Premium Annual7 Days trial$34.991 Year
- proofit Web$24.99
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