Breadkin vs StarterLog
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Breadkin
This app helps you manage your sourdough starter with feeding reminders and lineage tracking. Connect with friends to share your baking progress and see their creations.
- Feeding reminders
- Sourdough lineage tracking
- Friend activity feed
- Loaf and starter photo sharing
- Customizable feeding schedules
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Keep your sourdough starter fed. Track your sourdough lineage. Follow your friends. KEEP TRACK OF FEEDING YOUR STARTER Tell Breadkin how often you feed your sourdough — daily or weekly — and it nudges you on your own schedule. TRACK YOUR SOURDOUGH LINEAGE Every sourdough starter came from another one. Name yours and link it to the starter it came from. The family tree draws itself: every generation above you, and everyone you have passed a piece to. FOLLOW YOUR FRIENDS Post a loaf with a photo, or just what you ate. See what your friends are baking, and what their starters have made. No points. No leaderboards. Just your jar, where it came from, and the people you gave it to.
StarterLog
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StarterLog is a sourdough starter log built for bakers who are tired of paying a subscription for what should be a simple feeding log. Log a feeding in seconds — ratio, flour, water and temperature — and start the rise timer with one tap. A Live Activity tracks the rise on your Lock Screen; mark it peaked and the rise duration is saved to that feeding automatically. Tell the bake planner when you want the bread ready, and it counts back through feed, rise, mix, bulk ferment and bake to show exactly when to start — based on your own starter's recent rise times, not a guess. FEEDING LOG - Track one or more named starters, each with its own feeding history - Log ratio, flour type, water amount and temperature per feeding - Feeding reminders on a schedule you set - Attach a photo to any feeding from your Photos library RISE TIMER - A Live Activity that tracks the rise after every feeding - One tap to mark it peaked — the rise duration is logged automatically - Every estimate shows its arithmetic: "from your last 3 rises, 4h 10m – 6h 30m" BAKE PLANNER - Enter when the bread should be ready and get a full count-back schedule: feed, rise, mix, bulk ferment, bake - Built from your starter's own rise history, not a generic timetable BAKER'S TOOLS - Hydration and levain calculator, independent of the log - A home-screen widget showing the active starter's last feed and next feeding due PRICE StarterLog is free to download. Logging feedings, the rise timer Live Activity, feeding reminders, and the hydration and levain calculator are free forever, for one starter. A single one-time purchase of USD 3.99 — StarterLog Unlimited — adds unlimited starters, the bake planner, the photo log and the widget. No subscription, no ads, ever. No AI scan, either: StarterLog reads your starter's health from the log you already keep, not a photo classifier. No account. No tracking. Your data stays on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: StarterLog at daily against Breadkin's every 5 days. On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Breadkin sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and StarterLog sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Breadkin ships an update every 5 days, StarterLog daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Breadkin | StarterLog |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryan Tish | Soin |
In-app purchases
Breadkin
- Golden Crust$4.99
- Multigrain$4.99
- Brioche$4.99
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- Sesame$4.99
- Cornbread$4.99
StarterLog
- StarterLog Unlimited$3.99









