Sourdough Starter Tracker vs Sourdough Timer Pro
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
Sourdough Timer Pro
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NEW: FULL BAKE PLANNER Plan the whole bake, from feeding your starter to taking the bread out of the oven. • 14 tested recipes: country loaf, challah, pitas, pizza, focaccia and more, with every ingredient in grams for the amount you choose • Tell the app when you want the bread ready and it calculates when each step starts. You can also plan days ahead, starting from the starter feed • A reminder for every step, including each fold, even when the app is closed • Choose how you bake: Dutch oven, baking stone or steel with steam, or a loaf tin. Times and temperatures adapt to your method • Oven timers: tap "I put it in the oven" and the app counts down every stage (lid off, drying and more). Every timer is editable • Guided path to build a sourdough starter from scratch, with daily reminders • In-app feedback form • English and Hebrew • No ads STARTER CALCULATOR Sourdough Timer Pro computes the exact feeding schedule for your sourdough starter, working backward from your target ready time to give you a precise feed time and gram-level recipe. HOW IT WORKS Enter six parameters: target ready time, quantity of starter needed (grams), desired hydration percentage, flour type, starter activity level (%), and ambient temperature (°C or °F). The app applies a fermentation kinetics model that factors temperature-dependent metabolic rates of lactic acid bacteria and wild yeast to calculate when your starter will hit peak activity. OUTPUT — YOUR FEEDING PLAN • Feed time: the exact moment to feed so your starter peaks on schedule • Starter / flour / water quantities in grams • Feed ratio (e.g., 1:9.8:9.8) • Estimated peak pH • Predicted flavor profile (mild, balanced, tangy, complex) • Recommended bread types suited to the resulting starter profile • Fermentation timeline chart with 80% activity window marked Set process alarms directly from the results screen to get notified at feed time and at peak. DESIGNED FOR PRECISION Temperature has a nonlinear effect on fermentation speed. A 5°C difference between summer and winter kitchens can shift peak time by 2–4 hours. Sourdough Timer Pro accounts for this so your timing stays consistent regardless of ambient conditions. Supports both Celsius and Fahrenheit. Works across all flour types including whole wheat, rye, spelt, and einkorn. Starter activity input lets you calibrate for your specific culture's behavior. PROFESSIONAL & HOME BAKERS Built for bakers who want repeatability and data-driven control over their sourdough process. Used by professional bakery instructors for workshop demonstrations and planning. SUBSCRIPTION Sourdough Timer Pro requires an auto-renewable subscription (monthly or annual). Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use: https://sd-timer-pro.web.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://sd-timer-pro.web.app/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Sourdough Timer Pro at none against Sourdough Starter Tracker's shown. Sourdough Starter Tracker's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 4 months) and chart position (#190 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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 Sourdough Timer Pro sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sourdough Starter Tracker ships an update every 6 days, Sourdough Timer Pro every 4 months. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Sourdough Starter Tracker | Sourdough Timer Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (33 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #190 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MyQuietSpot Inc. | oran kamelgarn |
In-app purchases
Sourdough Starter Tracker
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Premium$12.99
Sourdough Timer Pro
- SD Timer Pro Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- SD Timer Pro Annual7 Days trial$5.991 Year
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