LoafOfMyLife — Bake better bread

LoafOfMyLife is a bread-baking app for home bakers: ready-to-bake recipes to start from and a library for your own, a baker's percentage calculator that scales any recipe to the size you want and gets sourdough maths right, and step-by-step baking plans with timers and alerts — on your phone, tablet or computer.

What it does

• Ready-to-bake recipes. Over fifty recipes to start from — sandwich loaves, artisan breads, sourdough, enriched doughs, flat breads, quick breads and pancakes. Pick a size and every weight is worked out. Filter by bread, flat breads or other, and by yeast, sourdough or quick.
• Your own recipe library. Save your own recipes, or your version of any of ours, and change them whenever you like — update them or save a new one. Share a recipe with a link, and discover recipes other bakers have shared, each one reviewed before it is listed.
• Baker's percentage calculator. Every ingredient as a percentage of the flour, with weights worked out for you. Change the flour weight, the hydration or any percentage, and the whole recipe follows.
• Step-by-step baking plans. A baking plan written for your exact formula, your level (beginner, intermediate or advanced) and the time you have. It follows your own notes and adds seeds, olives, butter and toppings at the right moment. (Pro)
• Bake mode with timers and alerts. Follow the steps as you bake, with step timers, a reminder to check your dough during the first rise, and an alarm that rings until you stop it while the app is open, plus an alert with the phone locked (on iPhone, once the app is on the Home Screen). The screen can stay on while you work.
• Sourdough maths done right. The flour and water inside your starter count towards the flour total and the hydration — not the starter's whole weight. Set your starter's own hydration, switch a recipe between yeast and sourdough, and use sourdough discard.
• Baking journal. Every bake you finish is saved on its own — the date, the recipe and the formula you used — and you add notes during the bake and after: how the dough felt, what the crumb was like, what to try next time. (Pro)
• Share it your way. Send a recipe to WhatsApp, X or Facebook with a proper preview, post a picture card made for Instagram and Status, email it, or print the whole recipe with every step to bake from paper.
• Water temperature and preferments. A dough-temperature (DDT) calculator for the right water temperature, and poolish, biga, sponge and pâte fermentée preferments built into the formula.
• Nutrition and allergens. Nutrition per loaf and per 100 g, and the major allergens in each recipe, worked out from the ingredients.
• Made for every kitchen. Grams and percentages, °C or °F, beginner to advanced. Works in any browser and can be added to your home screen like an app on Android, iPhone and desktop.
• Your own baking vessels. Save your tins, pots and trays with the flour weight that fills each one. Pick one and any recipe scales to fit; new recipes start from your favourite.

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