BreadIQ vs CrumbLog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BreadIQ
This app simplifies home bread baking by calculating precise formulas, fermentation timelines, and step-by-step guidance. It adapts to your ingredients, kitchen conditions, and desired readiness time, ensuring perfect results without extensive baking knowledge.
- Automated formula calculation
- Predictive fermentation timeline
- Step-by-step baking guidance
- Kitchen condition adaptation
- Recipe import and scaling
- Live probe temperature tracking
- Hands-free Siri integration
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Great bread without the apprenticeship. You want to make fresh bread at home. You don't want to spend years learning baker's percentages, hydration, fermentation science, dough temperature, or how to know when your dough is actually ready. You shouldn't have to. Tell BreadIQ what you want to make and when you want it ready. BreadIQ does the math, builds the formula, calculates the fermentation timeline, and guides you through the bake, from the first measurement to the moment your bread comes out of the oven. ACTIVE BAKE: GPS FOR YOUR BAKE BreadIQ builds a complete workflow around your dough, flour, loaf format and fermentation method, then takes you through it one step at a time: mix, rest, fold, shape, proof, bake. Timers run for you, and notifications tell you when it's time to come back. Every step is timed around the ones before and after it, so you don't have to keep track. With Siri on iPhone, it's hands-free. Say "BreadIQ" and ask what's next, how much time is left, or when your bread will be ready, without stopping what you're doing or touching your phone. PREDICTIVE FERMENTATION MODEL™ Fermentation isn't a fixed timer. Temperature, yeast, hydration, flour, sweeteners and preferments all change how dough behaves. BreadIQ calculates those variables and builds a timeline around your actual dough in your actual kitchen. No fermentation charts. No more guessing if your bread is ready. BUILD WHAT YOU NEED, WHEN YOU WANT IT One baguette, a dozen dinner rolls or three pizza balls: BreadIQ scales the formula, yeast and timing to match. Tell it when you want your bread ready and it works backward, telling you when to mix, fold, shape, proof and bake. BreadIQ tells you exactly what time to get started so you don't have to guess. YOUR KITCHEN, NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S BreadIQ accounts for kitchen temperature, relative humidity, flour type, hydration, yeast, sweetener, preferment and dough temperature, so your timeline is calculated for your bake in your kitchen. Have a temperature and humidity sensor in Apple Home? BreadIQ can fill in your kitchen conditions and adjust your timeline when you open the app. SPEEDRUN™: WHEN YOU DON'T WANT TO WAIT SpeedRun™ shortens the fermentation window with controlled changes to temperature and yeast rate. Not a shortcut. A different formulation designed for urgency. FLOURS AND AUTOLYSE From bread flour to whole wheat, rye, spelt and einkorn, BreadIQ adjusts the formula and fermentation to the flour you're using. When an autolyse makes sense, it handles the timing for you. LIVE PROBE TRACKING Pair a Combustion Inc. Predictive Thermometer and BreadIQ tracks your dough's temperature as it ferments and refines its forecast. During the bake, it watches the internal temperature and tells you when your bread is done. BRING YOUR OWN RECIPES Import recipes from websites, photos of recipe cards, or your browser, and BreadIQ turns them into a formula it can scale and time. COST, NUTRITION AND YOUR LIBRARY See an estimated ingredient cost and USDA-based nutrition for every bake. Save your formulas to your library and export them as formatted spreadsheets. Your recipes stay yours. BUILT BY A PROFESSIONAL. DESIGNED FOR EVERYONE. BreadIQ was created by a Certified Executive Chef and CIA ProChef Level II with more than 20 years in professional kitchens. That experience is behind the system, but you don't need any of it to use the app. You bring the curiosity. BreadIQ handles the complexity. SUBSCRIPTIONS BreadIQ is free to start, with a 30-day trial of Premium features. Basic ($4.99/month or $49.99/year) and Premium ($9.99/month or $99.99/year) subscriptions unlock more features. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID account settings. Terms of Use: https://breadiq.io/terms Privacy Policy: https://breadiq.io/privacy
CrumbLog
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CrumbLog is a baking log for sourdough. Log every loaf with its formula, folds, and proof times, rate the crumb, and compare your bakes to see the hydration that made your best. No account, no tracking. Everything lives on your device and in your private iCloud, and syncs across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. BAKER'S PERCENTAGES, DONE RIGHT Enter flour, water, starter, and salt in grams and CrumbLog folds the levain's own flour and water into the totals, so hydration and salt read true. Every bake shows its hydration, salt, and levain percentages. A BAKE LOG THAT REMEMBERS Autolyse, folds, bulk, final proof, bake time, and oven temperature on every loaf, with a crumb photo and a five star rating. The gallery becomes the visual record of your baking. BEST BAKE COMPARE CrumbLog plots hydration against the rating you gave each crumb, averages your rating by hydration band, and names the sweet spot. "What made my best crumb" gets an answer from your own loaves. RECIPE SCALING BY FLOUR WEIGHT Scale any formula to a new total flour, a target dough weight, or a number of loaves. Every ingredient moves together, so hydration and salt hold exactly. BAKE DAY TIMELINE Enter your step lengths and pick when to start or when the bread should come out of the oven. CrumbLog lays out autolyse, folds, shape, proof, preheat, and bake with a time on each step. STARTER FEEDING TRACKER Set your feed ratio and CrumbLog turns it into grams on the scale. Log every feeding with rise time and temperature, watch the age climb, and see when the next feeding is due. ON EVERY SCREEN YOU OWN CrumbLog syncs across iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud. The iPad layout sets the formula beside the process, with the compare charts side by side. FREE VS PRO Free includes 5 bakes with every tool: baker's percentages, recipe scaling, the bake day timeline, the crumb gallery, and the best bake compare. Pro unlocks unlimited bakes, starter feeding reminders, and exports: a printable recipe card PDF for any loaf and a CSV of every bake. Pro is offered as a monthly subscription, a yearly subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock. The current price is shown in the app and on this page before you buy. CrumbLog is a baking log for your own records. Feed, bake, rate, compare. Pro subscriptions renew automatically until cancelled. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Cancel anytime in Settings > Apple Account > Subscriptions; cancellation applies at the end of the current period. Terms: Apple Standard EULA https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
BreadIQ and CrumbLog are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. BreadIQ sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and CrumbLog sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
BreadIQ ships an update every 10 days, CrumbLog every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BreadIQ | CrumbLog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | BreadIQ LLC | InnovaLabWorks |
In-app purchases
BreadIQ
- BreadIQ Basic$4.991 Month
- BreadIQ Premium$9.991 Month
- BreadIQ Basic$49.991 Year
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- BreadIQ Premium$99.991 Year
CrumbLog
- CrumbLog Pro$5.991 Month
- CrumbLog Pro$34.991 Year
- CrumbLog Lifetime$59.99









