Baking journal
Sourdough Journal
A real logbook for your starters, formulas, and bakes.
Sourdough Journal is a sourdough baking app for iPhone and iPad — a real logbook for your starters, formulas, and bakes, with hydration, scaling, levain, and baker's-percentage calculators that stay in sync. Track multiple starters, log every bake, and keep notes worth coming back to.
iPhone · iPad
Starters, formulas, bakes, and the math behind them — all in one place, finally.
- Track feedings, rise, peak time, flour, and notes per starter
- Log the whole bake — timeline, outcome, crumb photos, next-time notes
- Hydration, scaling, levain, and feeding calculators that stay in sync
- Save templates and compare past bakes side by side
- Serious bread math, not fudged
- Multi-starter support, treated as a first-class feature
- Full backup and restore
- Search and side-by-side compare
- Quiet, journal-style workflow — no social feed
Everything you actually need. Nothing you don't.
Every starter gets its own record
Manage multiple starters at once — feed history, reminders, archives, and care modes for both room-temp and fridge routines.
Log the whole bake, not just the recipe
Timeline, oven details, crumb and crust notes, formula variants, photos, and the tweaks you want to try next time — all in one entry.
Real bread math, not hand-waved
Hydration, scaling, baker's percentage, starter feeding, and levain — all tied to the formulas you're actually baking.
Keep a record worth coming back to
Search, compare past bakes, save templates, and back up the whole journal — no more scattered notes or half-finished spreadsheets.
A closer look.
Built for the way you actually use it.
- Built for real sourdough workflows — not a generic recipe box
- Multi-starter management is a core feature, not an add-on
- Backup and restore are part of the product, not a paid tier
- Explains baking terms without dumbing them down
Get Sourdough Journal
Free on the App Store. No subscriptions, no paywalls on core features.
Quick answers.
- Do I need to be an advanced baker?
- No. It works for experienced bakers, and it helps newer ones get comfortable with terms like hydration, levain, and proofing along the way.
- Can it handle multiple starters?
- Yes — managing multiple starters is a core feature, not an edge case.
- Which calculators are included?
- Hydration, scaling, baker's percentage, starter feeding, and levain — all tied to the formulas you're actually baking.
- Can I back up my journal?
- Yes — full backup and restore is part of the product, not a paid tier.
- Is there a social feed?
- No. It's a quiet, journal-style workflow — your log, your notes, no feed.
Sourdough guides.
Plain-English explainers for the math behind better bread — the same calculations Sourdough Journal keeps in sync for you.
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