Comparison

Sourdough Bread Timer vs Pizza Wizard

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β€” with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Sourdough Bread Timer

Features
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Sourdough doesn't wait for you. Levain runs your whole bake from one timeline β€” every stage, every fold, every proof β€” and its alarms ring through silent mode so you never sleep through a shape again. Most timers count down once. A real loaf needs eight stages across eighteen hours, half of them overnight. Levain was built for that. ONE TIMER, EVERY STAGE Chain autolyse, mix, bulk ferment, folds, shape, cold retard and bake into a single schedule. Every step shows the clock time it will actually happen, before you start β€” so you know tonight whether you are pulling bread out at 7am or at noon. Long bakes get Next Day markers where the timeline crosses midnight. ALARMS THAT ACTUALLY WAKE YOU Stage alerts ring through silent mode and Focus, the way a Clock alarm does. Loud alarms are per stage: quiet for the overnight retard, loud for the oven. LIVE ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN The countdown lives in the Dynamic Island and on your Lock Screen. Glance at the stage name, the step number and the time left without opening the app. DOUGH THAT RUNS LATE When a stage ends the clock keeps counting up instead of resetting. Dough is ready when it is ready β€” Levain waits, and tells you how far over you are. BUILD YOUR OWN BREAD Drag stages into a timeline, scrub durations on a rotary dial, and drop ingredients, temperatures and humidity targets onto any step. Baker's percentage is calculated as you go, with levain counted as half flour and half water. A JOURNAL OF EVERY LOAF Log a bake and it becomes a photo on your calendar. The background is lifted off your loaf on device, so the bread sits as a sticker on the day you baked it. Notes, a gallery, the ingredients and the timeline it really ran on are kept as a snapshot β€” editing the recipe later never rewrites history. Starts with Classic Sourdough and Sourdough Focaccia. No account, and nothing leaves your phone. FREE AND PRO Free includes 3 recipes with the full multi-stage timer, loud alarms and Live Activity. Levain Pro unlocks unlimited recipes and the full photo bake journal, with a 7-day free trial. Available monthly, yearly, or as a one-time purchase. Monthly and yearly plans renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel in Settings. Terms of Use: https://liuys614.github.io/levain/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://liuys614.github.io/levain/privacy.html

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Pizza Wizard

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Pizza Wizard plans your pizza dough backwards from the moment the first pizza goes into the oven. It works out the yeast for your room and fridge temperatures and puts every hands-on step into the hours you are actually at home. Try every feature free for 7 days, then unlock Pizza Wizard with a one-time purchase. No subscription, no recurring costs. Saved plans stay fully usable after the trial. AROUND YOUR DAY Tell it when you want to eat and when you have time: afternoons and evenings, mornings and evenings, weekdays and weekends, or your own hours for each day. Mixing, balling and preheating land in those windows, and the long rests happen while you are out. If nothing fits, Pizza Wizard shows the smallest change that does, such as one pizza fewer, a slightly longer window or another style. FIVE STYLES Neapolitan (AVPN), modern Neapolitan, New York, Detroit and Chicago deep dish, each with its own fermentation profiles, from same-day doughs to cold ferments over several days. YEAST THAT FITS THE TIME Instant, active dry or fresh yeast, or sourdough, mixed directly or with a poolish or levain. The amount follows from the fermentation time and your temperatures, to a hundredth of a gram. Flours from Caputo, King Arthur and Le 5 Stagioni are built in, along with common flour types. A TIMELINE TO FOLLOW Every step with its time, what to do and how the dough should look. Tick steps off as you go, and a reminder arrives when the next one is due. Running late? The plan tells you whether the dough is ahead or behind and when it will be ready. OVEN AND BAKING Home oven or pizza oven, steel or stone and its thickness: Pizza Wizard works out how long the oven needs to preheat and how long baking all your pizzas takes. ON YOUR DEVICE Your plans stay on your iPhone or iPad. The app has no network access and no tracking, and it works in airplane mode. On iPad the timeline stays in view next to the ingredients. Available in 24 languages. Provider: BYTEPOTATO UG (haftungsbeschrΓ€nkt)

Screenshots

Sourdough Bread Timer4 screens
Pizza Wizard4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Pizza Wizard at every 3 days against Sourdough Bread Timer's every 8 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Sourdough Bread Timer sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Pizza Wizard sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sourdough Bread Timer ships an update every 8 days, Pizza Wizard every 3 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
Sourdough Bread Timer versus Pizza Wizard: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSourdough Bread TimerPizza Wizard
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 3 days β€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size8 MB9 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYI SHIH LIUBYTEPOTATO UG (haftungsbeschraenkt)

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Sourdough Bread Timer

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly: Unlimited Journal$3.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly: Unlimited Recipes7 Days trial$15.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pro Lifetime: Unlimited Bakes$29.99
2 purchases

Pizza Wizard

One-time2
  • 7-day TrialFree
  • Full version$1.99

Questions

Is Sourdough Bread Timer free?
Sourdough Bread Timer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pizza Wizard free?
Pizza Wizard is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sourdough Bread Timer or Pizza Wizard have ads?
Neither Sourdough Bread Timer nor Pizza Wizard shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sourdough Bread Timer or Pizza Wizard?
Sourdough Bread Timer ships an update every 8 days, and Pizza Wizard every 3 days. Most recently, Sourdough Bread Timer was updated on November 6, 2026 and Pizza Wizard on November 6, 2026.

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