Breadcrumbs vs Dough Maker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Breadcrumbs
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Breadcrumbs is your personal bread baking companion, built for home bakers who love sourdough, yeast bread and pizza dough. Whether you're a beginner following your first recipe or an experienced baker tweaking hydration ratios, Breadcrumbs gives you the tools to plan, calculate, and track every bake with confidence. SMART INGREDIENT CALCULATOR - Enter your flour weight and get precise ingredient amounts instantly - Uses real baker's percentages - the way professional bakers do it - Supports flour blends with automatic hydration adjustment (whole wheat, rye, spelt, semolina and more) - For pita and pizza: specify the number of pieces and ball weight, and the app calculates everything in reverse WORKFLOW TEMPLATES - Predefined step-by-step templates for sourdough, yeast bread, pita, and pizza - Each template includes detailed instructions, timings, and tips - Customize steps to match your own process RECIPE MANAGEMENT - Create personal recipes from any template - Adjust hydration, salt, yeast, or starter percentages - Build custom flour blends - Save and reuse your favorite recipes - Export recipes as beautiful PDF documents to share with friends ACTIVE BAKE TRACKING - Follow your bake step by step with built-in timers - Get notified when it's time for the next step - Add notes and photos at each stage - Track multiple bakes at the same time SOURDOUGH STARTER MANAGEMENT - Create starter profiles and track their age and health score - Log feedings with health indicators: rise, smell, appearance, and float test - Build levains with a ratio calculator and target ready times - Track jar weight with discard and use workflows - Set feeding reminders so you never forget your starter DESIGNED FOR YOU - Full Hebrew and English support - Works completely offline, your recipes and bakes are stored locally on your device - Clean, intuitive interface that stays out of your way while you bake - Light and dark mode Breadcrumbs was made by a home baker, for home bakers. No accounts, no subscriptions, no ads, just a great tool for making great bread.
Dough Maker
This app helps bakers create and manage dough recipes using baker's percentages. It allows for precise ingredient calculations in grams and supports a wide range of ingredients for various dough types. Save, organize, and sync your custom recipes across devices for easy access.
- Baker's percentage recipe creation
- Automatic gram measurement calculation
- Support for all dough ingredients
- Save and organize recipes
- Cross-device recipe syncing
- Ideal for sourdough, pizza, and bagels
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Dough Maker is a precision-focused baking companion built for people who think in baker’s percentages—not just ingredient lists. Store your recipes, build new recipes using percentage-based ingredients, and instantly generate exact gram measurements for any recipe. Whether you’re testing salt levels, dialing in yest amount, or experimenting with hydration, Dough Maker gives you full control over your dough. --- Why bakers choose Dough Maker • Create recipes using true baker’s math (baker’s percentages) • Include any ingredient—salt, olive oil, sugar, preferments, add-ins, and more • Automatically calculate final ingredient weights in grams • Save and organize recipes for quick reuse • Sync recipes across your devices --- Perfect for • Sourdough bread • Pizza dough • Bagels • Hydration experiments and scaling batches • Learning baker’s percentages Download Dough Maker and take control of your dough recipes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Breadcrumbs at none against Dough Maker's 1. Breadcrumbs also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). On price, ads, 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. Dough Maker sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Breadcrumbs asks for nothing beyond the download.
Breadcrumbs ships an update every 2 days, Dough Maker monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 6, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Breadcrumbs | Dough Maker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lior Cohen | Harry Wolff |
In-app purchases
Breadcrumbs
No in-app purchases
Dough Maker
- Pro Upgrade$4.99





