The Dough Lab vs Hooch

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.

Hooch is a sourdough starter tracker that answers the one question every keeper asks: when will it peak? Log a feeding and Hooch estimates the peak from your starter's own history - the median of the peaks you've marked - instead of a book number, and reminds you when the dome should be topping out. Feeding time is a calculator, not mental math. Tell Hooch what's in the jar and how much you want to keep, and it lays out flour and water to the gram in your ratio, splits a flour blend like 80/20 wheat and rye, keeps the discard honest, and can work backwards from the total you need for a bake. Grams or ounces, your call. Between feedings, Hooch remembers what you saw. Bubbles, a domed surface, hooch on top, the level against the rubber band - one quick observation records the rise percentage and keeps your starter's story in one place. Pink or orange streaks? Hooch tells you the truth about those too. On bake day, the batch calculator counts the levain into total flour and water - so 500 g flour, 350 g water and 100 g of levain reads 72.7% true hydration, not the 70% most calculators claim - with baker's percentages and salt in grams. The feeding log is honest: edit or delete any entry and every median, estimate and ledger recomputes. A 30-day discard ledger shows what leaves the jar. No account, no photos required, everything stays on your device. Free forever: one starter, the feeding log and calculator, observations, reminders and the published-baseline estimate. Hooch Plus adds the estimate learned from YOUR starter, peak-anchored alerts, more starters and the bake-day batch calculator. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cooperative-catmint-496.notion.site/Hooch-Privacy-Policy-3aed692d254d80bfa65ae1e6c82b6199