CrumbKeep vs Hooch

Keep your sourdough starter alive and bake better bread every time. CrumbKeep tells you exactly what to do and when: feeding reminders, rise timers, a bake journal, and an AI that reads your starter and your crumb like a pro baker. Made for home bakers who want great bread without living in Reddit threads. No account, no ads. Everything you log stays on your phone. WHAT'S FREE, FOREVER • Starter tracker - log every feeding and get a smart reminder before your starter gets hungry. • Feeding schedule - set your ratio and rhythm; CrumbKeep does the timing. • Hydration calculator - dial in dough and starter hydration in grams, instantly. • Bake journal - photos, ratings and notes so every loaf beats the last. • Rise and proof timers - with notifications, right inside each recipe. • 4 starter recipes, including a 7-day guide to grow a starter from scratch. • 3 free AI scans to try the magic. CRUMBKEEP PRO • Unlimited AI photo analysis - snap your starter or a cut loaf and get a real, photo-specific read: what it sees, a score, and exactly what to fix next bake. • Rise forecast - predict when your starter peaks from room temperature, flour and feed ratio, so you bake at the perfect moment. • All 12 recipes with step timers - country loaf, focaccia, bagels, pizza, cinnamon rolls and more. • Track unlimited starters. WHY BAKERS SWITCH TO CRUMBKEEP Most sourdough apps lock the basics behind a paywall and give you one vague scan. CrumbKeep keeps the tracker, reminders, calculator and journal free, and its AI gives advice tied to what's actually in your photo, not the same generic tip every time. Cancel anytime. The free tools stay free. CrumbKeep offers general baking guidance for home bakers. Privacy Policy: https://merczoestore.github.io/crumbkeep/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Hooch is a sourdough starter tracker that answers the one question every keeper asks: when will it peak? Log a feeding and Hooch estimates the peak from your starter's own history - the median of the peaks you've marked - instead of a book number, and reminds you when the dome should be topping out. Feeding time is a calculator, not mental math. Tell Hooch what's in the jar and how much you want to keep, and it lays out flour and water to the gram in your ratio, splits a flour blend like 80/20 wheat and rye, keeps the discard honest, and can work backwards from the total you need for a bake. Grams or ounces, your call. Between feedings, Hooch remembers what you saw. Bubbles, a domed surface, hooch on top, the level against the rubber band - one quick observation records the rise percentage and keeps your starter's story in one place. Pink or orange streaks? Hooch tells you the truth about those too. On bake day, the batch calculator counts the levain into total flour and water - so 500 g flour, 350 g water and 100 g of levain reads 72.7% true hydration, not the 70% most calculators claim - with baker's percentages and salt in grams. The feeding log is honest: edit or delete any entry and every median, estimate and ledger recomputes. A 30-day discard ledger shows what leaves the jar. No account, no photos required, everything stays on your device. Free forever: one starter, the feeding log and calculator, observations, reminders and the published-baseline estimate. Hooch Plus adds the estimate learned from YOUR starter, peak-anchored alerts, more starters and the bake-day batch calculator. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://cooperative-catmint-496.notion.site/Hooch-Privacy-Policy-3aed692d254d80bfa65ae1e6c82b6199