Comparison

Sourdough Tracker vs Matbotten

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sourdough Tracker

Track your sourdough starter feedings, predict its peak, and time your bread baking phases. Document every loaf, recipe, and starter activity in a personal baking journal. Understand fermentation and hydration to improve your bakes.

Highlights
  • Log starter feedings and discards
  • Predict starter peak times
  • Time bake phases with live timers
  • Document homemade loaves
  • Store sourdough recipes
  • Kitchen Mode for hands-free baking
  • Live Activity and widget support
Features
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Crumb is a sourdough starter tracker and baking companion for home bakers who love the ritual of making real, artisan bread. Log your daily starter feedings, learn when your sourdough starter peaks, time every phase of your dough, and keep a record of every homemade loaf in one place. Whether you are nurturing your very first starter or baking weekly for family and friends, Crumb keeps a clear history of your bread making: feedings and discards, dough preparation steps, your go-to baking recipes, and timers from autolyse through the final bake. By tracking your own process you start to understand fermentation timing, hydration ratios, proofing windows, and how small adjustments shape the final crumb. FREE • Sourdough starter tracker: one starter with a feeding timeline. Log every feeding and discard, and watch its activity build up. • Bread baking log: record up to 2 bakes with recipe notes, observations and dough preparation details. • Recipe keeper: save one bread recipe, bread machine recipes included, to come back to whenever you bake. • Feeding calculator: the starter, water and flour ratio maths, on its own tab. • Bulk fermentation calculator: estimate bulk timing from your dough temperature. • Kitchen bake timers: autolyse, bulk fermentation, proofing and the bake itself. • Your data is yours: export starters, bakes and recipes to CSV at any time, free on every plan. CRUMB+ • Unlimited starters, bakes and recipes. • Kitchen Mode: a large-type, hands-free companion for floury fingers. It walks you through any saved recipe step by step, runs a starter feeding helper, and keeps the screen awake. • Live bake tracking: follow your loaf phase by phase while it bakes, without unlocking your phone. • Peak-time predictions: Crumb learns when your starter peaks from your own temperature and feeding history, then tells you when the window is open. • Feeding reminders: a nudge when each starter is due. • Feeding ratio and temperature logging: the exact ratio and dough temperature behind every feeding. • Sourdough hydration calculator: water, levain, flour and salt weights from any formula, with a built-in sourdough bread calculator. • Bake and starter photos: every stage of your loaf, from the bubbly rise to the final scoring, plus a photo of your jar on the starter profile and on any single feeding. • Bake rating and scoring: crust, crumb, ear, flavor and rise. • Bake statistics: hydration trends, flour usage and baking frequency. • Feeding streaks and milestones. • Recipe Box: import a curated library of tested sourdough recipes. • Share cards and bread reports: shareable cards of your proudest bakes, and a full bread report as a PDF. No account. No ads. No analytics. Your baking records stay on your device. Crumb+ is available weekly, monthly, yearly, or as a one-time Lifetime purchase. A 3-day free trial is offered on the Monthly and Yearly plans. Prices are shown in the app before you buy. Bake, learn, improve. One loaf at a time. Privacy Policy: https://creativeadventureslab.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-Crumb-Sourdough-Tracker-3239f4ad1ce9809e9fafc8016de4f06b Terms of Use: https://creativeadventureslab.notion.site/Terms-of-Use-Crumb-Sourdough-Tracker-3359f4ad1ce98042b0bee4f9c91a2d35 Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Matbotten

Features
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Stop asking "what's for dinner?" — Matbotten creates your personal weekly meal plan in under a minute. Tell us about your household — number of people, allergies, favourite cuisines, budget, and cooking time — and get a complete weekly menu with recipes, nutrition data, and a ready-made shopping list. How it works: Fill in your household profile (takes under a minute) Get a tailored weekly menu with recipes made for your family Export the shopping list to Mathem, Bring!, or download as CSV Features: Weekly menus tailored to your household's taste, allergies, and budget Pantry — mark what you have at home and we plan smarter Nutrition data from Sweden's national food database with 2,575 verified foods Cooking mode with step-by-step instructions and built-in timers Rate recipes — your menus get better every week Personal recipe book with import via text or URL (paid plans) Three plans: Husmanskost (free) — 3-day menu, pantry, and shopping list Köksmästare (19 kr/month) — 5-day menu, recipe book, unlimited swaps Gourmet (49 kr/month) — 7-day menu, unlimited menus and personalisations Terms of Use: https://matbotten.se/legal/terms | Privacy Policy: https://matbotten.se/legal/privacy

Screenshots

Sourdough Tracker4 screens
Matbotten4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sourdough Tracker and Matbotten are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sourdough Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Matbotten sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sourdough Tracker versus Matbotten: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSourdough TrackerMatbotten
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.416.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB4 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperCREATIVE ADVENTURES LABAnjobe AB

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Sourdough Tracker

Subscriptions3
  • Crumb : Sourdough Tracker Weekly$1.997 Days
  • Crumb : Sourdough Tracker Monthly3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Crumb+ : Sourdough Tracker Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Crumb Lifetime Unlock$39.99
2 purchases

Matbotten

Subscriptions2
  • Köksmästare$0.991 Month
  • Gourmet$3.991 Month

Questions

Is Sourdough Tracker free?
Sourdough Tracker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Matbotten free?
Matbotten is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sourdough Tracker or Matbotten have ads?
Neither Sourdough Tracker nor Matbotten shows ads.

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