The Dough Lab vs Proof

The Dough Lab is a complete baking workspace for sourdough, pizza, artisan bread, and production baking. Plan your bake day, manage precise formulas, follow every step, and learn from each result. BAKE DAY Coordinate multiple batches without losing track of timers or next actions. • Plan several recipes and batches on one timeline • Work backward from your target baking time • Monitor active bakes and upcoming steps together • Keep independent timers, folds, notes, and progress for every batch • Continue interrupted or paused bakes • Generate a combined shopping list for planned batches RECIPES & BAKER’S MATH Create accurate formulas for everything from a single loaf to a full production run. • Use multiple named flours and flour blends • View precise baker’s percentages for every ingredient • Set starter or preferment hydration • Track total dough weight and per-piece yield • Scale by percentage, flour weight, or target portion weight • Create custom recipe types and workflows • Mark ingredients and recipe steps as optional HANDS-FREE BAKING Follow recipes comfortably while your hands are busy. • Large, kitchen-friendly controls • Step timers with quick adjustments • Configurable stretch-and-fold schedules • Read instructions aloud • Use Siri to control an active bake • Add step-specific notes, observations, and photos PREFERMENT TRACKER Track sourdough starter, levain, poolish, and biga from feeding to readiness. • Log feeds and builds • See rising, peak, ready, and past-prime states • Use temperature-aware timing windows • Plan backward from the time you need your preferment • Track counter and refrigerated maintenance routines PANTRY & SHOPPING Prepare for every batch in one place. • Combine ingredients from planned bakes • Keep named flours separate • Mark ingredients you already have • Track purchased items for each Bake Day • Add manual shopping-list items • Share your list BAKE LOG & PROGRESS Keep a useful record of what happened and improve over time. • Log ratings, photos, notes, conditions, and observations • Record room and dough temperatures • Compare timing, hydration, fermentation, and results • Review recipe-specific learning across repeated bakes • See trends across your baking history BUILT FOR REAL BAKING • Works offline • Syncs supported data through iCloud • Backup and restore your recipes and bake history • Supports Celsius and Fahrenheit • Available in English, Spanish, German, and Turkish • Designed for iPhone, iPad, and Apple silicon Mac Whether you are preparing tomorrow’s first loaf or coordinating a full production day, The Dough Lab helps you bake with better organization, clearer timing, and less guesswork.

Proof is a simple, honest dough calculator for pizza and bread — made by a home baker who wanted one tool that does the math, keeps the timers, and stays out of the way. There are no ads, no accounts, no tracking, and no subscription. Everything you make stays on your phone. If Proof helps you bake better, that's the whole point. CALCULATE YOUR DOUGH Set your ball count, ball weight, hydration, salt and yeast type. Proof works out exact gram weights for every ingredient, scaled to your batch. Grams or ounces, Fahrenheit or Celsius, inches or centimeters — switch anytime. TIMERS ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN Start a fermentation timer and walk away. Proof shows a live countdown right on your Lock Screen, so you always know when your dough is ready without unlocking your phone. HANDS-FREE INGREDIENTS AND METHOD Tap the totals bar for a large-type ingredient list and a step-by-step method built for a floury countertop. Check off each step as you go, and start a timer for any rest, mix or ferment straight from the instructions. Your running timer stays visible the whole time. SMART FERMENTATION SCHEDULING Dial in your bulk ferment, cold ferment and final proof by hours and temperature — kitchen or fridge — and Proof sizes the yeast for your schedule automatically. 13 BUILT-IN RECIPES From Neapolitan and New York style to sourdough and enriched doughs: a library of tested recipes you can load straight into the calculator with Select to Bake. Every step reads in your units. RUN MULTIPLE TIMERS AT ONCE The Schedule tab tracks every timer you've started, so a bulk ferment and a rest can run side by side without losing track. PROOF PRO — ONE PURCHASE, YOURS FOR GOOD Most of Proof is free. If you want more, Pro is a single one-time purchase (no subscription, ever): • Recipe Vault — save, edit and back up your own recipes to a file you control • Protein and additives — vital wheat gluten, diastatic malt and ascorbic acid, with automatic hydration compensation • Nutrition per ball — calories, protein, carbs, fat and fiber for every batch • Share any recipe as text A NOTE FROM THE BAKER WHO MADE THIS I built Proof because I wanted a calculator I could trust and a timer I wouldn't forget about. It's a small, independent app and I'd genuinely like to hear what would make it better — a recipe you'd add, a unit you're missing, anything that got in your way. The support link below reaches me directly. Thanks for baking with it.