Sourdough Tracker vs Brööö
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/
Brööö
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Brööö is your guided companion through the entire sourdough bake — from feeding the starter to slicing the finished loaf. One recipe, the whole way through Build your own workflows with baker's percentages, ingredients, and step-by-step instructions. Edit a recipe afterward without losing the history of past bakes. Smart timers that actually understand baking Every step gets its own countdown and notification when it's time — with a button to check it off or give the dough more time. Bulk fermentation, the long cold retard in the fridge, baking — all tracked separately, with time-sensitive notifications that reach you even in silent mode. History you actually learn from Rate temperature, dough strength, oven spring, and crumb after every bake, write a note, take a photo — and get good tips from AI, based on your own rating. Scroll back and see what set a great bake apart from a so-so one. Share with other bakers Upload your best recipes to Shared Recipes, or download others' and make them your own. Brödholken Connected to the legendary neighborhood bread pickup box in Lerum, Sweden — get a push notification the moment it's filled, so you beat the neighbors to it. Brööö is completely free, no ads, no account, and no tracking. Built by a brain-tired sourdough baker to spread experience and love.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Brööö at none against Sourdough Tracker's 4. Sourdough Tracker's advantage is chart position (#199 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Brööö asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sourdough Tracker ships an update every 2 weeks, Brööö every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Sourdough Tracker | Brööö |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Best chart rank | #199 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | CREATIVE ADVENTURES LAB | Jesper Follin |
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
Brööö
No in-app purchases
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