BreadLog vs CrumbKeep

BreadLog turns sourdough baking from a stressful guessing game into a guided, joyful ritual. Whether you're feeding your first starter or scoring your hundredth loaf, the app keeps a calm, warm presence beside you in the kitchen. WHAT'S INSIDE Live cooking sessions with a visual progress line, encouraging ambient text, and haptic milestones at every key moment. Hands-free mode — say "Next" with floured hands or tap giant buttons designed for messy kitchens. Scoring preview with camera overlay — pick a pattern, rotate it over your dough, score with confidence. Smart waiting prompts during long ferments — what to do while you wait, plus dough-expansion visualizer. Live Activity + Dynamic Island — your current step and countdown live on the lock screen. Mini educational moments — tap a term, learn what autolyse, bulk ferment, or scoring really mean. STARTER & JOURNEY Starter Journey — a 6-step guided path: from mixing flour and water to fridge sleep mode and dried backup. Baking Journey — a 5-day onboarding for absolute beginners with confidence-building milestones. Flour mix on feedings — log wheat + rye + whole grain together with separate gram amounts. Activity chart, peak prediction, fridge / room mode, spoilage detection. RECIPES 12 built-in artisan recipes — classic sourdough, focaccia, no-knead bread, rye, pita, banana bread, oatmeal loaf, plus three new summer picks: sourdough bagels, spinach & feta flatbread, strawberry jam buns. Seasonal "Summer pick" badge highlights fresh-weather recipes. Add your own with photos, step-by-step instructions and built-in timers. SHARE & CELEBRATE Send recipes as a .breadlog file via Messages, Mail or AirDrop — tap, import, bake. Beautiful shareable bake cards with hydration, fermentation time, rating — perfect for Instagram. Before & After gallery — see how your loaves have grown across bakes. No accounts. No ads. Your bread, your data, your kitchen.

Keep your sourdough starter alive and bake better bread every time. CrumbKeep tells you exactly what to do and when: feeding reminders, rise timers, a bake journal, and an AI that reads your starter and your crumb like a pro baker. Made for home bakers who want great bread without living in Reddit threads. No account, no ads. Everything you log stays on your phone. WHAT'S FREE, FOREVER • Starter tracker - log every feeding and get a smart reminder before your starter gets hungry. • Feeding schedule - set your ratio and rhythm; CrumbKeep does the timing. • Hydration calculator - dial in dough and starter hydration in grams, instantly. • Bake journal - photos, ratings and notes so every loaf beats the last. • Rise and proof timers - with notifications, right inside each recipe. • 4 starter recipes, including a 7-day guide to grow a starter from scratch. • 3 free AI scans to try the magic. CRUMBKEEP PRO • Unlimited AI photo analysis - snap your starter or a cut loaf and get a real, photo-specific read: what it sees, a score, and exactly what to fix next bake. • Rise forecast - predict when your starter peaks from room temperature, flour and feed ratio, so you bake at the perfect moment. • All 12 recipes with step timers - country loaf, focaccia, bagels, pizza, cinnamon rolls and more. • Track unlimited starters. WHY BAKERS SWITCH TO CRUMBKEEP Most sourdough apps lock the basics behind a paywall and give you one vague scan. CrumbKeep keeps the tracker, reminders, calculator and journal free, and its AI gives advice tied to what's actually in your photo, not the same generic tip every time. Cancel anytime. The free tools stay free. CrumbKeep offers general baking guidance for home bakers. Privacy Policy: https://merczoestore.github.io/crumbkeep/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/