Comparison

Sourdough Schedule vs Crusty

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

Head to head
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Sourdough Schedule

Features
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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.

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Crusty

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Good bread takes a day or two. Crusty makes it fit around yours. Tell Crusty when you want to eat, and it works backward through the levain, the folds, the shaping, and a night in the fridge. Every hands-on moment lands when you’re awake and free. If your time can’t work, it says so, offers the soonest one that can, and suggests what would make it sooner. Or just tap Start now. PLANS THAT FIT YOUR WEEK • Pick a time, or start right now • Milder or tangier: more time in the fridge, same ready time • Folds and shaping never land while you’re asleep • Log a step early or late and the rest of the bake replans TWO BAKES, ONE OVEN • Run up to three bakes at once • Crusty keeps them from needing the oven at the same time YOUR CALENDAR COUNTS • Crusty works around meetings in the calendars you choose • Optionally add your bake to a Crusty calendar WHILE YOU BAKE • A reminder for every step and fold, with log and snooze buttons • Lock Screen countdown and Home Screen widgets • Cook mode: big type, screen stays on • Siri: “Log the next step in Crusty” ON YOUR WRIST AND YOUR IPAD • Apple Watch: the next step, a live countdown, and one tap for Folded or Done • Watch complications for every face; log a starter feed from your wrist • On iPad, the whole bake sits beside what’s next STARTERS THAT LEARN • Keep one starter or several, each with its own schedule • Predicted peaks that get closer every time you mark one • Know when to feed so it’s ripe as the levain goes in • “Is it ready?” check and a starter guide YOUR RECIPES • Country sourdough, whole wheat, pizza, focaccia, challah, brioche, and bagels • Write your own in grams or cups, import from a link or pasted text, and share with friends • Baker’s percentages: scale and tweak, and the timing follows A BAKE LOG THAT TEACHES • Real step times, dough temperatures, photos, and how it turned out • Plain-language patterns across bakes, and side-by-side comparisons • Search, tags, spreadsheet export, and full backups PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. Your data stays on your devices, synced through your own iCloud if you like.

Screenshots

Sourdough Schedule4 screens
Crusty4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Crusty at none against Sourdough Schedule's shown. Sourdough Schedule's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Sourdough Schedule versus Crusty: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSourdough ScheduleCrusty
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Daily
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size85 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFerran EspunaJon Fleschler

In-app purchases

None

Sourdough Schedule

No in-app purchases

None

Crusty

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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