Sourdough Schedule vs BakePlanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sourdough Schedule
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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.
BakePlanner
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When does the sourdough have to go on so the bread comes out of the oven at 6 pm on Saturday? BakePlanner works it out and reminds you of every step. In BakePlanner a recipe is not just a list of ingredients but steps with durations. You choose “Done by” or “Start from”, and the app calculates the start time for the scald, the sourdough, kneading, folding, shaping and baking. “Turn on the oven” it adds by itself. Every step comes with a reminder on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. The next step sits as a widget on the Home Screen and as a Live Activity on the Lock Screen. IN THE KITCHEN Bake Mode shows one step in big type, with its ingredients at the planned serving size, and reads it aloud if you like. Ask Siri for the next step, mark it done or push it back without touching the screen with doughy fingers. BAKER’S CALCULATORS • Starter TA: the recipe wants a starter at TA 150 and you keep yours at TA 200? The app converts the amount of starter and the water in the main dough. • Replace flour: spelt instead of wheat, wholegrain instead of white. The water follows the new flour, with advice on handling it. • Dough temperature: the water temperature for the dough temperature you want, with preferment and friction factor. • Serving size or dough weight, as you like. Dough yield, hydration and baker’s percentages are calculated along. CARING FOR THE SOURDOUGH Recurring recipes such as refreshing the starter are planned anew by the app after each time. In the feeding diary you note the time to peak, the float test and remarks. RECIPES Photograph a recipe from a book or share a web page from Safari: BakePlanner reads ingredients, components and steps and turns “fold every 30 minutes, 4x” into timed steps. In the shared recipe database you find recipes from other bakers. They are translated on the device, with a glossary that gets scald, bulk fermentation and starter right. Your own recipes stay on the device until you publish them. No account is needed; signing in with Apple is voluntary. SHOPPING AND KEEPING RECORDS The shopping list is sorted by shelf and takes the amounts at the chosen serving size. The baking history keeps a photo, measurements and the result of every baking day. The top list shows what turned out best. BakePlanner – say when the bread should be ready. The app works out the rest.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: BakePlanner at none against Sourdough Schedule's shown. Sourdough Schedule's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Sourdough Schedule | BakePlanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 85 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ferran Espuna | Hans-Peter Mueller |
In-app purchases
Sourdough Schedule
No in-app purchases
BakePlanner
No in-app purchases
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