Best apps for sourdough, brewing and fermentation

Facts checked on 11 November 2026.

How we compared them

We read each one's own site and App Store page on 11 November 2026 and compared who it is built for, where it runs and how you pay. We make Fermento, so it is listed first.

5 apps for sourdough, brewing and fermentation

1. Fermento our pick

   Fermento is a fermentation journal for iPhone and iPad. It keeps pickles, sourdough, cheese, kombucha and charcuterie on schedule with timelines and reminders, and logs pH, salt, weight, photos and notes in one place.

   Built for: people who ferment more than one thing: sourdough, kombucha, pickles, cheese, charcuterie. How you pay: free to download, with a paid plan for some features, such as HACCP plans.

2. Loaflo

   Loaflo is a sourdough app with AI at its centre. You photograph a loaf or starter for feedback on crust and crumb, follow recipes, log starter feedings and hydration, use calculators, and chat with a baking assistant called Mr. Crumb.

   Built for: sourdough bakers who want AI feedback on their loaves. How you pay: a weekly, monthly or yearly subscription.

   Fermento vs Loaflo

3. Kneady

   Kneady is a bread recipe app. Its listing describes a library of recipes from professional bakers with step-by-step guidance, timers for rising, kneading and baking, a Baking Mode, saved favourites and a community for sharing bakes.

   Built for: home bakers who want bread recipes to follow. How you pay: a free plan, with the rest on a Kneady Pro subscription: monthly, quarterly or annual.

   Fermento vs Kneady

4. Brewfather

   Brewfather is a brewing app for recipe design, batch tracking and fermentation monitoring. It has a recipe designer with style guidelines, a brew timer, water and yeast calculators, an ingredient inventory, and remote logging from hydrometers such as Tilt and iSpindel.

   Built for: homebrewers who design beer recipes and run brew days. How you pay: a free plan capped at 25 recipes and 25 batches; device integrations, import and export need a Premium subscription, and the AI assistant needs Premium Plus.

   Fermento vs Brewfather

5. Brew Meister

   Brew Meister is the companion app for Anton Paar's Tony measuring devices. It records gravity, temperature and pH from an EasyDens, SmartRef or pH2Go, or from a wireless hydrometer such as Tilt, draws fermentation curves, works out ABV and compares batches. Readings can also be typed in by hand.

   Built for: brewers who measure gravity with a connected meter or hydrometer. How you pay: free to download, with the advanced features on a Full Access subscription, monthly or yearly.

   Fermento vs Brew Meister

At a glance

How to choose

Start from what is in your kitchen. Most people who ferment end up with more than one thing going: a starter, a crock, a few bottles. One journal that keeps all of them on schedule, with the readings beside each batch, saves keeping an app for each. That is Fermento.

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We make Fermento. What we say about the other apps comes from their own pages, read on 11 November 2026: Loaflo on the App Store, Kneady on the App Store, Brewfather on the App Store, Brew Meister on the App Store. Spotted a mistake? Write to support@fermento.guide. We are not affiliated with any of them.