Fresh bread, exactly when you want it.

Set the hour the loaf comes out. Crumb plans every step backwards and recalculates as your dough’s temperature changes.

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Good afternoon
Today
Bulk ferment · in progress
Next fold 24:00

Bulk ferment is underway

Crumb’s puffing up beautifully. Up next: stretch & fold #3.

Your starters

DustyReady
Fed 5 hours ago
Rye RiotPeaking
Peaked just now

Active bake

Country Sourdough
Bulk ferment · folds 2 of 4
1:24
until next step

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The problem

Recipes tell you “bulk ferment 4 hours”. Your kitchen was 19 °C, so it wasn’t ready — or 27 °C, so it over-proofed while you slept. You end up babysitting a bowl all day, or slicing into a dense loaf and not knowing which step went wrong.

What Crumb does

Crumb starts from the finish line. You say when you want the loaf out of the oven; it schedules feed → autolyse → bulk → folds → shape → proof → bake backwards from that hour, and re-times what’s left every time you tell it the dough’s temperature. A notification lands for each stage, so nothing depends on you remembering.

Timing

A schedule that reacts to your kitchen

Tell Crumb when you want bread. It plans feed, autolyse, bulk, folds, shape, proof and bake backwards from that moment. Warmer dough shortens the stages, cooler dough stretches them — the plan updates instead of going stale.

Building your schedule…
Timing each step around your dough temperature
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Starter

Know your starter, not just its schedule

Log feedings and watch the rise curve build up over days, with an estimate of when your starter hits peak. Keep several jars going, each with its own reminders, and stop doing the float test out of superstition.

Dusty
Readyfed 5 hours ago
Bread flour · 100% · 2 yrs
Time to peak ~6h
Looking good. Feed again when it falls back down.
Rise since last feed
0%54%108%peak ~6hfed12h
Feeding history
1:5:5 · bread flour
Today, 9:24
Doubled in 6h
1:5:5 · bread flour
Yesterday
Strong & bubbly
1:3:3 · bread flour
Jun 4
Quick feed
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Free

The calculators are free. All of them.

Baker’s percentage for any recipe, a full pizza dough calculator for Neapolitan, New York and pan styles, hydration and unit conversion. No paywall, no account, no “3 free uses” counter.

Try it right here — drag the sliders and the recipe recalculates.

Baker’s % calculator
Build any dough by ratio
Inputs
Total flour500 g
Hydration72%
65–75% is the classic country-loaf range
Salt2%
Levain20%
Recipe
Flour100%
500 g
Water72%
360 g
Levain20%
100 g
Salt2%
10 g
Total dough970 g
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Scan

Photograph the crumb, get a straight answer

Snap the sliced loaf and Crumb reads the crumb structure, crust and signs of under- or over-proofing, then says what to change next time. It’s the feedback loop that a book can’t give you.

High confidence · 90%

Even, open crumb

Gorgeous! Open, even holes and a glossy, gelatinised crumb.

What to do next
1
Textbook fermentation — whatever you did, repeat it.
2
Crust caramelised nicely; you could push 2 min longer for more colour.
3
Log this bake so you remember the timing.
AI guidance, not a guarantee — trust your hands and eyes too.
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Widgets

The next step, on your Lock Screen

Home and Lock Screen widgets show the stage you’re in and the time left, and a Live Activity keeps the bake on your Dynamic Island. During a bake you never have to open the app to know what’s next.

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Bulk · Fold 3 of 4 · 24:12 left
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24m
Bulk · Fold 3 of 4
24:12Next fold
Crumb
Bulk ferment
24:12
Stretch & fold #3
Next fold
The planner

See it plan a bake.

Move the dial. Watch the whole day re-time itself.

Bread out of the oven at
17:00drag to set
Dough temperature20°C
Comfortable room temperature
Happy and steady
Start at02:10
Feed starter4 h
02:10 → 06:10
Autolyse45 min
06:10 → 06:55
Bulk ferment · 3 folds4 h
06:55 → 10:55
Shape20 min
10:55 → 11:15
Cold proof5 h
11:15 → 16:15
Bake45 min
16:15 → 17:00
Out of the oven17:00

Timings are approximate — a friendly illustration, not a recipe.

This is one bake, planned in five seconds. The app does this for every loaf, and reminds you at each step.

How it works

Three steps to a better loaf.

1

Pick your finish time

Say when the loaf should come out of the oven.

2

Bake with the plan

Crumb walks you through each stage and pings you when it’s time to fold, shape or bake.

3

Log it and learn

Save the bake with photos and notes, scan the crumb, and let the next loaf start from what worked.

Crumb Pro

For the bakes you do every week.

Crumb Pro is for the bakes you do every week, not the first one you try.

  • Unlimited AI crumb scans
  • The temperature-smart schedule for every bake
  • Multiple starters with their own feeding reminders
  • An unlimited bake journal with photos and notes
  • Premium recipes

Start a free trial in the app.

FAQ

Good questions, honest answers.

On your iPhone. Crumb keeps your starters, bakes, photos and notes on the device — there’s no account and nothing to sign into. We use anonymous analytics to see which features get used, and nothing you write or photograph is part of that.

No. Open the app and start baking. Purchases are tied to your Apple ID, so a subscription restores on a new device without any login of ours.

Yes for everything that matters — schedules, timers, starter logs and all calculators run entirely on your device. Only the AI features, Scan and Ask Crumb, need a connection, because the photo or question is sent to be analysed.

All the calculators are free forever — baker’s percentage, pizza dough, hydration and conversions — along with tracking a starter and following recipes. Pro adds the temperature-smart schedule for every bake, unlimited AI crumb scans, multiple starters, the unlimited journal and premium recipes. Current pricing is shown in the App Store, since it varies by country.

Yes. The dough calculator covers Neapolitan, New York and pan styles with their own hydration and timing, and pizza bakes get the same schedule treatment as bread.

iPhone on iOS 17 or later, including Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets and Live Activities on the Dynamic Island. There’s no iPad or Apple Watch app yet.

In iOS Settings → your name → Subscriptions → Crumb. Apple handles billing and refunds; deleting the app doesn’t cancel a subscription.

Email [email protected] with your iPhone model, iOS version and what happened. A person reads every message and usually replies within two business days.

Your next loaf starts here.

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