Comparison

Fermentation Lab vs Lievitati Lab

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

Head to head
About

Fermentation Lab

Features
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Fermentation Lab is the cellar notebook for people who ferment at home. Pick a ferment and a recipe: the app weighs the ingredients, tells you what to do each day and keeps track of temperature, pH and salt, jar by jar. Start from a recipe 95 recipes for 39 ferments – sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, kefir, yogurt, miso, shoyu, koji, tempeh, cured meats, cheese, vinegar, beer, wine, mead and more – plus bread recipes and pizza styles. Ingredients arrive already weighed and stay in proportion: change how much you make, or one line, and the rest follows. Next to each ingredient you see whether it is in your pantry; what is missing goes to the shopping list. Or write your own recipe and keep it for next time. The right step, every day Each type has its own care sheet: the phases, the task of each phase and the checkpoints – minimum salt, pH by the expected day, temperature limits, humidity, weight loss. Home follows what is fermenting and reminds you of today's task, with a notification when it is due. Short ferments such as bread, koji or yogurt are counted in hours. Log it, understand it Temperature, pH, gravity, notes and photos in one tap. Every reading is read for your ferment: whether it is within the limits of its care sheet, whether it is too early to tell, what counts besides that number. Measuring guides explain how to read pH and °Brix properly. You can connect an Inkbird Bluetooth sensor for temperature and humidity. Bread and pizza Baker's percentages on total flour, hydration, sourdough starter, biga and poolish. The method is part of the recipe: autolyse, folds, a night in the fridge, the pan. Doughs made in pieces are asked in pieces – four 250 g dough balls – and the step-by-step recipe has timers. The water temperature that brings the dough to the right temperature is one tap away from Home. The Laboratory Pantry and supplies, a shopping list with a barcode scanner, your cultures, the archive of finished ferments, statistics across batches, a calendar and timers. The Library Problems and doubts ("is it mold?"), techniques and microbes, with a search that reads inside the cards. Share An Instagram story or post with the jar's photo, log or recipe, plus a link to its web page. The Community Your profile is your lab: a jar for every ferment in progress. A weekly leaderboard, daily quests, culture swaps and a swap map. Others see only the types and progress of your lab – never names, notes or photos – and you can hide it. The Brigade, for kitchens A shared lab for kitchen teams: tickets on the rail, shift handovers, the week's HACCP checks, roles. And more Eight languages, a paper or cellar theme, and a predicted flavor profile and umami score (they are estimates). Fermentation Lab helps you keep count and not skip a check. Its values are the common ones of home fermentation: a number within limits says that number is within limits, not that a food is safe or ready. When in doubt, don't taste it.

About

Lievitati Lab

This app guides you through making various types of bread, pizza, and other leavened doughs with precise, step-by-step instructions. It features a smart timeline for fermentation stages and a diary to track and improve your baking results.

Highlights
  • Dozens of pizza and bread styles
  • Guided wizard for dough creation
  • Smart Timeline for fermentation
  • Diary to track baking results
  • Custom flour and oven profiles
  • Multilingual support
Features
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Lievitati Lab is your ultimate baking companion: an app that guides you step by step through pizza, bread, focaccia and many other leavened doughs, with the precision of a real bakery lab. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Choose from dozens of pizza styles (Roman, Neapolitan, New York, Detroit, Calzone and more), breads (Baguette, Ciabatta, Rustic loaf, Sandwich bread...) and other leavened treats like Bagels, Pinsa, Naan, Breadsticks and gluten-free options. • A guided wizard walks you through 4 simple steps: quantity and yeast type, flour selection (with a real database of Italian and international flours, W strength, protein and absorption), oven type (from home ovens to professional pizza ovens) and fermentation method. • The Smart Timeline automatically calculates every stage of your dough — mixing, bulk fermentation, fridge, proofing — with precise times based on room, flour and fridge temperature. • Track your results in the Diary: rate crumb structure, crust, extensibility, flavor and baking to improve with every batch. • Create and save custom flours and ovens, with photos, to match the tools you actually use. • Available in 6 languages: Italian, English, German, Spanish, French and Portuguese. Whether you're a curious beginner or an experienced home baker, Lievitati Lab turns the science of fermentation into a simple, precise journey anyone can follow. Download now and start your first perfect dough.

Screenshots

Fermentation Lab4 screens
Lievitati Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fermentation Lab at none against Lievitati Lab's 1. Lievitati Lab's advantage is update cadence (daily vs fortnightly). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Lievitati Lab sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Fermentation Lab asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fermentation Lab ships an update fortnightly, Lievitati Lab daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Fermentation Lab versus Lievitati Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFermentation LabLievitati Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.1 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB125 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAntonio LiceMarco Bargellini

In-app purchases

None

Fermentation Lab

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Lievitati Lab

One-time1
  • Full Access$2.99

Questions

Is Fermentation Lab free?
Fermentation Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lievitati Lab free?
Lievitati Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fermentation Lab or Lievitati Lab have ads?
Neither Fermentation Lab nor Lievitati Lab shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fermentation Lab or Lievitati Lab?
Fermentation Lab ships an update fortnightly, and Lievitati Lab daily. Most recently, Fermentation Lab was updated on October 24, 2026 and Lievitati Lab on October 24, 2026.

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