LoafNote vs Crusty

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

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.