Comparison

Sourdough Schedule vs Sourdough Bread Timer

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

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About

Sourdough Schedule

Features
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Plan the perfect loaf around your life โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” 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 โ€” plus a fully customizable profile for your own timing. DESIGNED FOR REAL KITCHENS โ€” Clean, warm, modern interface with light and dark themes โ€” Celsius and Fahrenheit, grams and ounces โ€” Available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese โ€” Reliable local notifications even when offline โ€” No account required, no signup, no email โ€” just open and bake WHO IT'S FOR โ€” New bakers who want a calm hand guiding their first loaves โ€” Weekend bakers who want bread ready for Saturday breakfast without an early alarm โ€” Serious bakers running long ferments and tracking starter performance โ€” Anyone tired of scribbled timelines on the back of an envelope PRIVACY FIRST Your recipes, your bakes, your starter logs โ€” 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.

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Sourdough Bread Timer

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Sourdough doesn't wait for you. Levain runs your whole bake from one timeline โ€” every stage, every fold, every proof โ€” and its alarms ring through silent mode so you never sleep through a shape again. Most timers count down once. A real loaf needs eight stages across eighteen hours, half of them overnight. Levain was built for that. ONE TIMER, EVERY STAGE Chain autolyse, mix, bulk ferment, folds, shape, cold retard and bake into a single schedule. Every step shows the clock time it will actually happen, before you start โ€” so you know tonight whether you are pulling bread out at 7am or at noon. Long bakes get Next Day markers where the timeline crosses midnight. ALARMS THAT ACTUALLY WAKE YOU Stage alerts ring through silent mode and Focus, the way a Clock alarm does. Loud alarms are per stage: quiet for the overnight retard, loud for the oven. LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN The countdown lives in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen. Glance at the stage name, the step number and the time left without opening the app. DOUGH THAT RUNS LATE When a stage ends the clock keeps counting up instead of resetting. Dough is ready when it is ready โ€” Levain waits, and tells you how far over you are. BUILD YOUR OWN BREAD Drag stages into a timeline, scrub durations on a rotary dial, and drop ingredients, temperatures and humidity targets onto any step. Baker's percentage is calculated as you go, with levain counted as half flour and half water. A JOURNAL OF EVERY LOAF Log a bake and it becomes a photo on your calendar. The background is lifted off your loaf on device, so the bread sits as a sticker on the day you baked it. Notes, a gallery, the ingredients and the timeline it really ran on are kept as a snapshot โ€” editing the recipe later never rewrites history. Starts with Classic Sourdough and Sourdough Focaccia. No account, and nothing leaves your phone. FREE AND PRO Free includes 3 recipes with the full multi-stage timer, loud alarms and Live Activity. Levain Pro unlocks unlimited recipes and the full photo bake journal, with a 7-day free trial. Available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time purchase. Monthly and yearly plans renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings. Terms of Use: https://liuys614.github.io/levain/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://liuys614.github.io/levain/privacy.html

Screenshots

Sourdough Schedule4 screens
Sourdough Bread Timer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sourdough Schedule at none against Sourdough Bread Timer's 3. Sourdough Schedule also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). Sourdough Bread Timer's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Sourdough Bread Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Sourdough Schedule asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Sourdough Schedule versus Sourdough Bread Timer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSourdough ScheduleSourdough Bread Timer
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 8 days
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size85 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFerran EspunaYI SHIH LIU

In-app purchases

None

Sourdough Schedule

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Sourdough Bread Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly: Unlimited Journal$3.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly: Unlimited Recipes7 Days trial$15.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime: Unlimited Bakes$29.99

Questions

Is Sourdough Schedule free?
Sourdough Schedule is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sourdough Bread Timer free?
Sourdough Bread Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sourdough Schedule or Sourdough Bread Timer have ads?
Sourdough Schedule shows ads; Sourdough Bread Timer does not.

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