Sourdough Tracker vs Sauerdo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
Sauerdo
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Sauerdo is the fermentation journal for bakers who want to improve. Whether you're chasing your first open crumb, dialing in a 72-hour cold-fermented sourdough, perfecting Neapolitan pizza dough, or experimenting with focaccia and brioche — Sauerdo turns every bake into a real entry in a real journal. Not a notes app. Not a spreadsheet. A tool built for flour-on-hands hands. — Track the bake as it happens — Tap an action: Mix dough, Stretch & fold, Cold ferment started, Launch & bake. Sauerdo timestamps it for you. Snap a photo without leaving the session. Add a note when something happens you'll want to remember. The whole bake gets logged hands-free, then becomes a clean timeline you can scroll back through tomorrow, next week, or next year. — Score every bake against the same rubric — Crust, crumb, scoring, oven spring, salt balance — every bake earns a number from 0 to 11. After ten or twenty bakes, you stop guessing and start seeing. Which flour gave you the most open crumb? Which ambient temperature lined up with your best ears? The patterns are sitting in your history; Sauerdo just makes them visible. — Tools bakers actually need — • Bulk fermentation predictor: dough temp + ambient + flour character + target rise → a real time range, not a generic "4–6 hours." • Reverse schedule planner: pick when bread comes out of the oven, work backwards through every stage. • Hydration calculator: dial in your water exactly, every time. • Baker's percentages: type weights, see ratios; type ratios, see weights. • Yeast converter: IDY ↔ ADY ↔ fresh yeast, with activation guidance baked in. • Stretch & fold timer: set the interval and the rounds, get a wrist nudge for each one. • Starter feeding scheduler: feed on time, every time, with predictable peak windows. — Built for every kind of bake — Sauerdo ships with workflows for sourdough, pizza, focaccia, brioche, ciabatta, baguette, and rye. Each bake type has its own scoring rubric and its own timeline. A Neapolitan pizza dough is not a country sourdough — Sauerdo treats them differently. — Local-first. No account required. — Sauerdo lives on your phone. Your bake photos, notes, scores, and recipes stay in your journal unless you choose to export or share them. — Sauerdo Pro — Free includes everything you need to track and score your bakes. Pro is for bakers ready to scale up: • Unlimited saved recipes and unlimited journal history • Multiple simultaneous live sessions — proof a sourdough while a pizza dough cold-ferments • Up to 10 photo slots per bake — finished loaf, crumb shot, score pattern, and a full bake trail • Branded share cards built for the feed • PDF export of your full bake journal Sauerdo Pro is sold as an auto-renewing subscription through your Apple ID. Cancel anytime in Settings. — Made in Copenhagen, by a baker, for bakers — Got a workflow we should add, a bake type we missed, or a question? Email kc@mondaybrew.dk. We read everything. Terms of Use (EULA): https://sauerdo.vercel.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://sauerdo.vercel.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Sauerdo at daily against Sourdough Tracker's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 Tracker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Sauerdo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sourdough Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, Sauerdo daily. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sourdough Tracker | Sauerdo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CREATIVE ADVENTURES LAB | mondaybrew |
In-app purchases
Sourdough Tracker
- 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
- Crumb Lifetime Unlock$39.99
Sauerdo
- Sauerdo Pro Monthly$9.991 Month
- Sauerdo Pro Yearly$82.991 Year
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