LoafNote vs Picky
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LoafNote
This app helps sourdough bakers manage their starter, adjust bulk fermentation based on kitchen temperature, and plan bakes. It offers timed reminders, recipe import, and a built-in learning course for beginners.
- Starter care and health tracking
- Temperature-adjusted bulk fermentation timing
- Bake planning and backward scheduling
- Recipe import from links, text, or photos
- Timed step reminders
- Bake logging and learning
- Beginner sourdough course and glossary
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Sourdough runs on your kitchen's temperature, not the recipe writer's clock. Tell LoafNote when you want warm bread and it plans the whole bake backward from that moment, tuned to your kitchen and scheduled around your sleep. PLAN THE BAKE BACKWARD Pick a finish time. LoafNote works back through every step: when to feed, when to mix, when to shape, including cold proofs. If a schedule would have you folding dough at 3am, it bends the plan so the work lands while you're awake. When that isn't possible, it says so. BULK THAT WATCHES THE TEMPERATURE Tell LoafNote your kitchen temperature and it adjusts the bulk window with guidance for every rise along the way. YOUR STARTER, LOOKED AFTER Keep one starter or several. LoafNote tracks each feed and shows you at a glance whether a starter is hungry, rising, or at peak, so it's ready when you are. NO STARTER YET? MAKE ONE Mix flour and water and LoafNote takes it from there: what to feed each day, what the jar should look like, and why the quiet day 4 is normal. In about a week, a readiness check walks you through the signs that it can raise bread. A NUDGE WHEN IT'S TIME Start a bake and put the phone down. Step timers and reminders tell you when the dough needs you, and the current step sits on your lock screen with its countdown running. RUN MORE THAN ONE BAKE A boule for Saturday and a focaccia for tonight can run side by side. Each bake keeps its own timers and its own lock screen countdown, and Home lists every active bake in one place. When the day gets away from you, pause a step and resume when you're back at the counter. RECIPES WITHOUT THE SCROLLING Paste a link, paste text, or import from a photo. You get the ingredients and timed steps, with hydration and baker's percentages worked out with everything measured in grams. Your recipes stay on your phone forever and you can share them with friends with one tap! EVERY LOAF TEACHES THE NEXT Rate the crumb and note what you'd change. That note greets you the next time you start the same recipe. LEARN BEFORE BAKING New to sourdough? A built-in course walks you through the basics, and a glossary covers the terms bakers actually use. No question is too small. FREE FOR A MONTH Try everything free for a month. Long enough to wake a starter up and put a few real bakes behind you. After that, LoafNote is $3.99 a month or $29.99 a year, and the subscription includes the whole app. What you're paying for is the planning: a schedule built backward from when you want bread, bent around your sleep, with bulk timing tuned to your kitchen. A timer alone doesn't do that. No ads, no account needed, and your baking data stays on your device. Terms: https://loafnote.com/terms.html Privacy: https://loafnote.com/privacy.html
Picky
Easily navigate restaurant menus by scanning them with your camera. Get personalized dish recommendations based on your dietary needs, allergies, and preferences, simplifying dining out.
- Scan menus with camera
- Personalized dish recommendations
- Supports allergies and intolerances
- Handles ARFID and sensory sensitivities
- Translates foreign language menus
- Group dining sessions
- Learns from user feedback
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Ordering should not be the hardest part of eating out. Point your camera at any menu and Picky reads every dish, then tells you which ones are for you, which are worth asking about, and which to skip. It helps if you eat carefully - allergies, intolerances, ARFID, autism, sensory sensitivities. It helps just as much if you are abroad staring at a menu you cannot read, or you are simply tired of deciding. HOW IT WORKS - Point your camera at a menu, or paste the text - Picky reads every dish and checks it against how you eat - Dishes that suit you come first. "Worth asking" gives you the exact question to ask your server, so you don't have to improvise MENUS IN OTHER LANGUAGES Picky reads menus written in languages you don't speak and tells you what's actually in each dish, so an unfamiliar menu abroad stops being a gamble. FEWER THINGS TO DECIDE A long menu becomes a short list. Picky puts the dishes that suit you at the top and collapses the rest, so you are choosing between three good options instead of forty unknowns. TELL IT HOW YOU EAT Go past ingredients. Rule out fried food, anything too heavy, or more than mild spice. Set a diet like vegetarian, vegan, halal or kosher and Picky rules out everything that breaks it - including things you'd never think to list, like gelatin or stock. Flag textures that put you off, from mushy to visible green specks. IT LEARNS FROM YOUR MEALS Tell Picky how a meal went and it gets more confident over time: which cuisines suit you, which textures don't, which restaurants have worked before. PLAN AHEAD Save the places that worked. Add upcoming trips and pin restaurants to check before you go. EATING WITH OTHER PEOPLE Start a group session and share a menu. Everyone sees the same dishes judged against their own restrictions, so nobody has to explain themselves at the table. PICKY UNLIMITED Free includes 5 scans to start, then 2 a month, with dish verdicts and names. Unlimited adds: - Unlimited scans - The reason behind every flag - Full ingredient breakdowns - Ballpark calories on dishes that suit you - Saved restaurants and history - Group dining - Shareable scan cards £5.99/month or £59.99/year. Cancel any time. Picky is a food preference assistant, not medical advice. It reads what's printed on a menu and can be wrong. Always confirm with restaurant staff before ordering if a reaction would be serious. Picky Unlimited is an auto-renewable subscription: £5.99/month or £59.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Picky Terms and Conditions: https://get-picky.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://get-picky.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Picky at freemium against LoafNote's subscription. Picky also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 days). LoafNote's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 79%) and chart position (#149 vs unranked). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. LoafNote sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Picky sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LoafNote against 5.0 for Picky. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of LoafNote's written reviews are positive against 79% of Picky's.
LoafNote ships an update every 6 days, Picky every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | LoafNote | Picky |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 78.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Freemium — better |
| Best chart rank | #149 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Bruin Labs LLC | NIKITA KYRUSHKO |
Customer experience
LoafNote
Picky
In-app purchases
LoafNote
- LoafNote Monthly1 Month trial$3.991 Month
- LoafNote Annual1 Month trial$29.991 Year
Picky
- Picky Pro Monthly$6.991 Month
- Picky Pro Yearly$69.991 Year









