Sourdough Schedule vs Sourdough Starter

Plan the perfect loaf around your life — not the other way around. Sourdough Schedule is the calm, organized companion for home bakers who want every bake to come out right. Tell the app when you want to pull the bread from the oven, and it works backward to build your entire timeline: when to feed your starter, when to mix, when to fold, when to shape, when to retard in the fridge, and when to score and bake. Built for beginners learning their first country loaf and refined enough for experienced bakers running long cold ferments and high-hydration doughs. WHAT YOU CAN DO Reverse-Time Scheduler Pick your finish time. The app calculates every step before it — starter feed, levain, autolyse, bulk fermentation, stretch and folds, pre-shape, bench rest, final shape, cold retard, preheat, bake, cool. Every step lands on a real time on your calendar. Step-by-Step Reminders Local reminders for every stage so you never miss a fold or forget the dough in the fridge. Set lead times that match your routine. Starter Tracker Log every feeding with flour, water, ratio, temperature, and notes. Track your starter's rise activity over the last two weeks on a clean chart. Daily feeding reminders keep your culture alive and healthy. Recipe Library Eight handcrafted recipes ready to go — Classic Country, Whole Wheat, Multigrain, Light Rye, Olive Rosemary Focaccia, Baguettes, Whole Wheat Tin Loaf, and Ciabatta. Each one shows full ingredient lists with baker's percentages and a built-in hydration calculator that scales every weight when you change the total flour. Bake Journal Save every bake with a photo, rating, crumb structure, crust color, and tasting notes. Track your progress over weeks and months. Mark favorites and learn what works in your kitchen. Hydration Math Done Right Adjust the total flour weight and watch every other ingredient recalculate live. No spreadsheet, no mental gymnastics. Five Dough Profiles Classic Country, Quick Same-Day, Long Cold Ferment, High Hydration, Whole Wheat — plus a fully customizable profile for your own timing. DESIGNED FOR REAL KITCHENS — Clean, warm, modern interface with light and dark themes — Celsius and Fahrenheit, grams and ounces — Available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese — Reliable local notifications even when offline — No account required, no signup, no email — just open and bake WHO IT'S FOR — New bakers who want a calm hand guiding their first loaves — Weekend bakers who want bread ready for Saturday breakfast without an early alarm — Serious bakers running long ferments and tracking starter performance — Anyone tired of scribbled timelines on the back of an envelope PRIVACY FIRST Your recipes, your bakes, your starter logs — all stored on your device. No account, no cloud sync, no data sales. Read our full privacy policy at https://silvervalleyprintco.com/privacy_policies.html Bread takes time. The planning shouldn't. Download Sourdough Schedule and bring rhythm to your baking.

Your sourdough starter is alive. Fermento treats it that way. Klaus — or whatever you name yours — has a face. Leave him too long and he looks hungry. Feed him and he beams. It sounds silly right up until you realise you haven't killed a starter in months. A PHOTO INSTEAD OF A GUESS Hold the jar up to the camera. Bubbie reads the bubbles, how far it climbed, the crust drying on the glass — six things a camera can genuinely judge, not ten invented ones. Then she says what it means for your next feed, and moves it. Photograph a cut loaf and she reads the crumb the same way. SIX JARS, ONE SHELF Sourdough starter, brine pickles, kombucha, kraut and kimchi, yogurt and kefir, ginger bug. Each gets its own character, rhythm and checklist. FROM FLOUR AND WATER Three day-by-day recipes raise a starter from scratch: the grams for each day, and what you should be seeing. Around day four it looks dead in every one of them — Fermento tells you that before you throw it out. REMINDERS THAT READ THE ROOM Free jars run on a fixed rhythm you choose. With Plus, tell Fermento how warm your kitchen is and it pulls the next feed forward on hot days, pushes it back when it's cold. Quiet hours are respected — nothing pings you at 3 a.m. Burp reminders for pickles, fizz checks for kombucha, a wake-up when a jar leaves the fridge. FEED BY THE SCALE Tell Fermento once what the empty jar weighs and every feed names the number to watch for instead of an amount to guess at. Your jar can hold a blend — 70 % wheat, 30 % wholegrain rye — and Bubbie says whether that ratio carries it to the next feed. WHEN SOMETHING LOOKS WRONG Grey liquid on top? White film? No rise? Photograph it, or pick what you see from a list. Bubbie explains what it actually is, and with Plus installs a real fix: a changed ratio, a shorter schedule, a set number of feeds. The jar stays in rescue mode until it's back on track. IT LEARNS YOUR STARTER Log a rise and Fermento remembers how long it took. The countdown to the peak is free and runs on your Lock Screen. With Plus it drops the rule of thumb and uses your jar's own measured curve instead. PLAN A BAKE BACKWARDS Say when the dough goes together and Fermento names the feed time and the ratio so the starter peaks exactly then. One plan a month is free. WHEN YOUR HANDS ARE FULL "Hey Siri, feed my starter in Fermento." A widget and a Control Centre button do the same in one tap. On bake day the step you're in counts down on the Lock Screen. EVERYTHING YOU DID, KEPT A calendar that fills itself and, with Plus, a photo timeline per jar and a monthly recap to share. Dough and brine calculators. Discard recipes so nothing goes in the bin. Your whole log exports as CSV — free, because it is your data. BADGES YOU EARN Twenty milestones and twenty-one outfits for your jars. None of them can be bought — they only come from actually looking after your ferments. WHAT LEAVES YOUR IPHONE No account, no sign-up, no ads, nothing sold on. Your jars, photos and history live on the device and sync through your own iCloud if you want them to. A photo sent for a reading is resized, stripped of its location, and stored nowhere — not on the server, not in a log. The weather heads-up is optional and sends a rounded-off region, never an address. Anonymous counts show where people get stuck; a switch in Settings turns them off. FERMENTO PLUS Unlimited jars, full history, the photo readings, the bake planner, rescue plans, temperature-aware reminders, photo timelines and the bake book. Free keeps two jars and 30 days of history. Fermento is a logbook, not a lab. It won't tell you whether something is safe to eat - when in doubt, throw it out. Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Use: https://jonaspolenz368.github.io/Fermento/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://jonaspolenz368.github.io/Fermento/privacy.html