The Dough Lab - Bread Baking3.2.2 - App Store

The Dough Lab is a complete baking workspace for sourdough, pizza, artisan bread, and production baking. Plan your bake day, manage precise formulas, follow every step, and learn from each result.

BAKE DAY

Coordinate multiple batches without losing track of timers or next actions.

. Plan several recipes and batches on one timeline
. Work backward from your target baking time
. Monitor active bakes and upcoming steps together
. Keep independent timers, folds, notes, and progress for every batch
. Continue interrupted or paused bakes
. Generate a combined shopping list for planned batches

RECIPES & BAKER’S MATH

Create accurate formulas for everything from a single loaf to a full production run.

. Use multiple named flours and flour blends
. View precise baker’s percentages for every ingredient
. Set starter or preferment hydration
. Track total dough weight and per-piece yield
. Scale by percentage, flour weight, or target portion weight
. Create custom recipe types and workflows
. Mark ingredients and recipe steps as optional

HANDS-FREE BAKING

Follow recipes comfortably while your hands are busy.

. Large, kitchen-friendly controls
. Step timers with quick adjustments
. Configurable stretch-and-fold schedules
. Read instructions aloud
. Use Siri to control an active bake
. Add step-specific notes, observations, and photos

PREFERMENT TRACKER

Track sourdough starter, levain, poolish, and biga from feeding to readiness.

. Log feeds and builds
. See rising, peak, ready, and past-prime states
. Use temperature-aware timing windows
. Plan backward from the time you need your preferment
. Track counter and refrigerated maintenance routines

PANTRY & SHOPPING

Prepare for every batch in one place.

. Combine ingredients from planned bakes
. Keep named flours separate
. Mark ingredients you already have
. Track purchased items for each Bake Day
. Add manual shopping-list items
. Share your list

BAKE LOG & PROGRESS

Keep a useful record of what happened and improve over time.

. Log ratings, photos, notes, conditions, and observations
. Record room and dough temperatures
. Compare timing, hydration, fermentation, and results
. Review recipe-specific learning across repeated bakes
. See trends across your baking history

BUILT FOR REAL BAKING

. Works offline
. Syncs supported data through iCloud
. Backup and restore your recipes and bake history
. Supports Celsius and Fahrenheit
. Available in English, Spanish, German, and Turkish
. Designed for iPhone, iPad, and Apple silicon Mac

Whether you are preparing tomorrow’s first loaf or coordinating a full production day, The Dough Lab helps you bake with better organization, clearer timing, and less guesswork.

Version History This update makes editing and planning more dependable.
• Recipe edits refresh immediately after saving, with protection against accidentally discarding unsaved changes.
• Planning identifies missing step durations and baking-step types, with tools to correct them.
• Delete unwanted planned batches from the batch menu or by swiping. Batches with active or recoverable runs are protected.
• Find “Edit Bake” more easily to update a finished bake’s notes, rating and photos.
• During a bake, “Next” shows the upcoming step’s duration, with planning and timer durations shown separately when they differ 3.2.2 Sep 23 Plan your baking with greater confidence.
• Plan by quantity, with batch preparation times and oven rounds.
• Keep scaled quantities when planning, or save a scaled recipe as a new recipe.
• Continue active bakes across devices with handoff.
• Keep timers running while moving between steps.
• View ingredients, preview the next step and add photos during a bake.
• Find and resolve missing step durations and scheduling conflicts.
• Improved bake recovery and reliability when editing recipes.
• Fixed recipe sharing UI 3.2.1 Sep 18 Plan your baking with greater confidence.
• Plan by quantity, with batch preparation times and oven rounds.
• Keep scaled quantities when planning, or save a scaled recipe as a new recipe.
• Continue active bakes across devices with handoff.
• Keep timers running while moving between steps.
• View ingredients, preview the next step and add photos during a bake.
• Find and resolve missing step durations and scheduling conflicts.
• Improved bake recovery and reliability when editing recipes. 3.2 Sep 17 DoughLab 3.1 makes planning clearer and more connected.

• Plan everything from Bake Day, now with a weekly view
• Assign recipes and pizza plans directly to a Bake Day
• See actionable schedule warnings, including delays, overlaps, and missing durations
• Track completed actions and overall Bake Day progress
• Review completed Bake Days from History
• Get the next Bake Day action from the updated widget
• Enjoy interface refinements, improved translations, and reliability fixes 3.1 Sep 1 Introducing Bake Day

Plan and run several bakes at once with one clear timeline for every batch.

• Coordinate overlapping batches, timers, folds, and next actions
• Start, pause, and resume each bake independently
• Keep formulas and yields consistent from planning through completion
• Combine upcoming batches into one shopping and pantry list
• Review timing, conditions, and results after every bake

Also new in 3.0:

• More precise baker’s percentages and ingredient weights
• Custom recipe types and optional ingredients
• Improved scaling, yields, and total dough weight
• Context-aware bake notes
• Siri can read your current step aloud
• Recipe and bake-log backup and restore
• Improved iCloud synchronization and status visibility

This update also includes extensive reliability, migration, recipe-editing, and multi-bake timer improvements. 3.0.1 Aug 30 Introducing Bake Day

Plan and run several bakes at once with one clear timeline for every batch.

• Coordinate overlapping batches, timers, folds, and next actions
• Start, pause, and resume each bake independently
• Keep formulas and yields consistent from planning through completion
• Combine upcoming batches into one shopping and pantry list
• Review timing, conditions, and results after every bake

Also new in 3.0:

• More precise baker’s percentages and ingredient weights
• Custom recipe types and optional ingredients
• Improved scaling, yields, and total dough weight
• Context-aware bake notes
• Siri can read your current step aloud
• Recipe and bake-log backup and restore
• Improved iCloud synchronization and status visibility

This update also includes extensive reliability, migration, recipe-editing, and multi-bake timer improvements. 3.0 Aug 29 Improved recipe creation and workflow editing:

• More reliable custom-step reordering
• Blank recipes now start truly blank
• Smarter photo prompts and recipe yield defaults
• More accurate autolyse and sourdough instructions
• Clearer pantry controls and bake editing labels
• Additional fixes and interface polish 2.9.3 Aug 19 • Improved custom recipe steps with clearer controls, reliable reordering, duplication, and configurable stretch-and-fold schedules.
• Refined active-bake navigation for easier use near the Home indicator.
• Fixed issues involving canceled timer alerts, step settings, and duplicate bake logs. 2.9.2 Aug 13 • Improved custom recipe steps with clearer controls, reliable reordering, duplication, and configurable stretch-and-fold schedules.
• Refined active-bake navigation for easier use near the Home indicator.
• Fixed issues involving canceled timer alerts, step settings, and duplicate bake logs. 2.9.1 Aug 9 - Build recipes with multiple named flours and more accurate baker’s percentages and hydration calculations.
- Set recipe yield and see the calculated weight per loaf, ball, roll, or portion.
- Scale recipes toward a target flour amount or portion weight.
- Customize stretch-and-fold schedules and mark workflow steps as optional.
- Improved timer alarms, Live Activities, pause and resume behavior, and bake logging reliability.
- Numerous localization, layout, and recipe-editor refinements. 2.9 Aug 4 DoughLab 2.8 makes recipe scaling and batch planning more practical.

• Record recipe yield in loaves, rolls, dough balls, baguettes, bagels, pizzas, or portions
• See calculated dough weight per piece
• Scale recipes toward a target piece weight with an explicit preview
• Keep yield consistent across plans, active bakes, paused sessions, and bake history
• Improved custom-step editing, ordering, deletion, and timer entry
• Additional formula, localization, and interface refinements 2.8 Jul 21 Create accurate recipes with multiple named flours, flour blends, and correct baker’s percentages.
Set starter or preferment hydration for more accurate total flour and true hydration calculations.
Formula details now carry through scaling, shopping lists, sharing, imports, planned bakes, and bake history.
Improved recipe editing and Live Activity timer reliability. 2.7 Jul 13 Fixed starter feed log actions so duplicate entries are easier to delete, and improved Lab history date labels. 2.6.1 Jun 28 Learn from every bake with automatic step timing, optional temperature tracking, and comparisons with previous bakes of the same recipe. We also refined bake assessments, improved guidance for each experience level, and polished the interface throughout. 2.6 Jun 23 DoughLab 2.5 adds Spanish, German, and Turkish support, Celsius temperature preferences, and improved preferment guidance for starter, levain, poolish, and biga.

This update also refines refrigerated starter maintenance, wake-for-bake flows, active bake resume cards, and localized recipe step text. 2.5 Jun 17 The Lab keeps growing in v2.4.

- New Pizza Planner for Neapolitan, New York, pan pizza, and Roman-style dough.
- Plan direct dough, poolish, or biga with ingredient math and pizza-night timelines.
- New Home Screen widgets for Starter Status, Pizza Night, and Next Bake.
- Progress has a warmer journey view, next milestone guidance, and grouped achievements.
- New pizza achievements for saving pizza plans and prefermented pizza.
- Improved Lab navigation, empty states, icons, and deep-link handling.
- Stability and refresh improvements across planner, widget, and Lab flows. 2.4 Apr 28 The Lab is here, now with a stronger stability pass.

- Improved reliability when resuming or discarding in-progress bake sessions.
- Fixed edge cases that could cause crashes after paused sessions were deleted or cleaned up.
- Made active bake and in-progress bake cards clearer and more stable.
- Improved recipe sharing links with better universal link support.
- Added safer storage startup handling so app data is never reset automatically.
- Small polish updates across bake logging, progress insights, and Lab flows.

See more: https://changelog.doughlab.net/ 2.3 Apr 27 Major stability improvements for active bake sessions and resume flow.
Improved stretch-and-fold tracking and in-progress bake behavior.
Better recipe sharing and import links with universal link support and web fallback.
Added website, support, privacy policy, and changelog links throughout the app.
New bake tips and beginner-friendly guides after saving a bake.
Added starter timing trend insights and a more useful Progress tab with your baking story, recent improvement, and top recipes. 2.2 Mar 7 - Major stability improvements for active bake sessions and resume flow.
- Fixed crashes around pause/resume, leaving active bakes, and stretch-and-fold tracking.
- Simplified stretch-and-fold flow for more reliable in-bake progress tracking.
- Improved in-progress bake card behavior and removed glitchy animation.
- Better recipe sharing/import links with universal link support and web fallback page.
- Updated in-app links for website, support, privacy policy, and changelog.
- Added smarter in-app review prompts after successful bake/import milestones.

See more: https://changelog.doughlab.net/ 2.1 Mar 1 - New Lab tab for preferment tracking and weekly bake planning.
- Track sourdough starter, levain, poolish, and biga with readiness states.
- Peak/ready-window reminders based on your logged kitchen temperature.
- Plan Timing tool works backward from bake time to suggest feed/mix time.
- Bake Planner with Week View chips, day dots, and contextual empty states.
- Shopping list now aggregates all pending bakes into one shareable list.
- Recipes improved with style filters and cleaner rows.
- Replaced stale Bake Analysis with rotating offline baking tips.
- Stability fixes: resolved a CloudKit planner relationship crash and improved recipe sharing link reliability. 2.0 Feb 26 - critical bakes stability fixes
- duplicate built-in recipe cleanup
- empty-state animation polish 1.3 Feb 18 This update makes DoughLab smarter, faster to manage, and safer to use as your recipe library grows.

Added live iCloud sync status in Settings with clear account/state indicators.
Added Bake Detail editing so you can update rating and notes after a bake.
Improved recipe import with duplicate-name handling:
Import as Copy
Replace Existing
Upgraded search and sort:
Bakes: search + sort by newest/oldest, rating, hydration
Recipes: sort by name, newest, most baked, highest rated
Sort preferences now persist.
Added stronger regression tests for import, duplication naming, hydration edge cases, deep link parsing, and bake deletion safety. 1.2 Feb 17 DoughLab v1.1 is here: better recipe filters, improved sharing (including importable .doughlab files), paused-bake reminders, recipe duplication, and a polished Settings experience. Plus key bug fixes for bake timeline navigation and overall stability.

What’s new in 1.1:

• New recipe filtering experience with workflow presets and cleaner empty states.
• Recipe duplication from recipe detail and list actions.
• Improved sharing: deep link share, plain-text share, and importable .doughlab file sharing.
• Paused bake reminders with notification controls in Settings.
• Active bake recovery tips to help troubleshoot dough in-session.
• Better photo handling and storage optimization for bake logs.
• Updated Settings with improved notification permission handling and a polished developer section.
• Fixed timeline card navigation so the correct bake opens reliably.
• General UI/accessibility polish and stability improvements. 1.1 Feb 13 1.0 Feb 11