Sourdough Suite vs BreadIQ
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sourdough Suite
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Sourdough Suite is a practical bread-baking toolkit built by a professional baker for real bake days. Whether you are maintaining a starter, planning tomorrow’s bake, troubleshooting a dense crumb, or scaling a formula for production, Sourdough Suite brings the tools you need into one clean, baker-friendly app. Use Photo Rescue to analyze dough, starter, crumb, or loaf photos and get structured troubleshooting guidance. Build bake plans with clear timing, save your own recipes, track starter feedings, and use professional bread calculators without jumping between spreadsheets, notes, and timers. Included tools: Photo Rescue Bake Planner My Recipes Starter Tracker Baker’s Percentage Calculator Hydration Calculator Preferment Calculator Flour Blend Calculator Feeding Calculator Timeline Calculator Dough Temperature Calculator Bake Day Copilot Sourdough Suite is designed for bakers who want more than a single calculator. It helps connect the whole process: starter strength, fermentation, dough handling, formula math, bake timing, and recipe organization. Built from bakery experience, the app gives practical guidance without pretending bread is one-size-fits-all. Use it as a bench companion for learning, troubleshooting, and making your next loaf better than the last.
BreadIQ
This app uses advanced fermentation science to help home bakers achieve professional-grade results. It calculates precise proofing timelines, scales recipes to your needs, and guides you through each step of the baking process. Get consistent, delicious bread without the guesswork.
- Predictive Fermentation Model™
- Active Bake turn-by-turn navigation
- Context-aware recipe scaling
- Humidity adjustment
- SpeedRun™ for faster fermentation
- Multi-stage fermentation options
- Recipe import from various sources
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Great bread without the apprenticeship. You want to make fresh bread at home. You don't want to spend years learning baker's percentages, hydration, fermentation science, dough temperature, or how to know when your dough is actually ready. You shouldn't have to. Tell BreadIQ what you want to make and when you want it ready. BreadIQ does the math, builds the formula, calculates the fermentation timeline, and guides you through the bake, from the first measurement to the moment your bread comes out of the oven. ACTIVE BAKE: GPS FOR YOUR BAKE BreadIQ builds a complete workflow around your dough, flour, loaf format and fermentation method, then takes you through it one step at a time: mix, rest, fold, shape, proof, bake. Timers run for you, and notifications tell you when it's time to come back. Every step is timed around the ones before and after it, so you don't have to keep track. With Siri on iPhone, it's hands-free. Say "BreadIQ" and ask what's next, how much time is left, or when your bread will be ready, without stopping what you're doing or touching your phone. PREDICTIVE FERMENTATION MODEL™ Fermentation isn't a fixed timer. Temperature, yeast, hydration, flour, sweeteners and preferments all change how dough behaves. BreadIQ calculates those variables and builds a timeline around your actual dough in your actual kitchen. No fermentation charts. No more guessing if your bread is ready. BUILD WHAT YOU NEED, WHEN YOU WANT IT One baguette, a dozen dinner rolls or three pizza balls: BreadIQ scales the formula, yeast and timing to match. Tell it when you want your bread ready and it works backward, telling you when to mix, fold, shape, proof and bake. BreadIQ tells you exactly what time to get started so you don't have to guess. YOUR KITCHEN, NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S BreadIQ accounts for kitchen temperature, relative humidity, flour type, hydration, yeast, sweetener, preferment and dough temperature, so your timeline is calculated for your bake in your kitchen. SPEEDRUN™: WHEN YOU DON'T WANT TO WAIT SpeedRun™ shortens the fermentation window with controlled changes to temperature and yeast rate. Not a shortcut. A different formulation designed for urgency. FLOURS AND AUTOLYSE From bread flour to whole wheat, rye, spelt and einkorn, BreadIQ adjusts the formula and fermentation to the flour you're using. When an autolyse makes sense, it handles the timing for you. LIVE PROBE TRACKING Pair a Combustion Inc. Predictive Thermometer and BreadIQ tracks your dough's temperature as it ferments and refines its forecast. During the bake, it watches the internal temperature and tells you when your bread is done. BRING YOUR OWN RECIPES Import recipes from websites, photos of recipe cards, or your browser, and BreadIQ turns them into a formula it can scale and time. COST, NUTRITION AND YOUR LIBRARY See an estimated ingredient cost and USDA-based nutrition for every bake. Save your formulas to your library and export them as formatted spreadsheets. Your recipes stay yours. BUILT BY A PROFESSIONAL. DESIGNED FOR EVERYONE. BreadIQ was created by a Certified Executive Chef and CIA ProChef Level II with more than 20 years in professional kitchens. That experience is behind the system, but you don't need any of it to use the app. You bring the curiosity. BreadIQ handles the complexity. SUBSCRIPTIONS BreadIQ is free to start, with a 30-day trial of Premium features. Basic ($4.99/month or $49.99/year) and Premium ($9.99/month or $99.99/year) subscriptions unlock more features. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use: https://breadiq.io/terms Privacy Policy: https://breadiq.io/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sourdough Suite at none against BreadIQ's 4. Sourdough Suite also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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. BreadIQ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Sourdough Suite asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Sourdough Suite | BreadIQ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 10 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scott Olmer | BreadIQ LLC |
In-app purchases
Sourdough Suite
No in-app purchases
BreadIQ
- BreadIQ Basic$4.991 Month
- BreadIQ Premium$9.991 Month
- BreadIQ Basic$49.991 Year
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- BreadIQ Premium$99.991 Year








