Loafy: Sourdough Bread Baking

Bake better sourdough, from your first starter to the perfect crumb. Loafy is the sourdough app from The Bread Code, by the author of The Sourdough Framework: guided bread recipes with timers, bread and pizza dough calculators, a baking journal that shows you what works, and answers from Hendrik’s book. Free, no ads.

MAKE A SOURDOUGH STARTER
Start from scratch: grow a thriving sourdough starter from flour and water, day by day. Get your starter ready for baking day, make a stiff starter (a stiff levain) for panettone and brioche, or bring The Bread Code’s dried Explorer Starter back to life. Give your starters names and birthdays, keep notes on how they behave, and share a starter’s passport with whoever you gave some to.

GUIDED SOURDOUGH BREAD RECIPES
Bake a crusty sourdough loaf, the easiest sandwich bread in a lidded pan, or master scoring for better oven spring, one step at a time: mixing, bulk fermentation, shaping, proofing and baking. Timers ring when they end, even on a locked phone, and keep running when you put the phone down.

WATCH THE PART YOU NEED
The Bread Code’s videos play inside the guides and start at the moment the step needs, like the shaping part when you shape. Tell Loafy what went wrong with a bake and it shows the part that fixes it.

BREAD AND PIZZA DOUGH CALCULATORS
Baker’s math, done for you. Set hydration, salt and starter in baker’s percentages, scale a recipe to the flour you have or to the number of loaves you want, and add your own flours and add-ins. Keep the bakes you want to make again as named presets. The dough optimizer tares your own bowls and bannetons, so you weigh dough without arithmetic.

A BAKING JOURNAL THAT REMEMBERS
Log a bake in three taps, then add the details: hydration, salt, starter, bulk time and temperature, proofing, baking, pH and photos. Every loaf stays in your journal, so the one that worked in March is still there in November. Loafy reads your bakes back to you: the hydration your best loaves share, your top-rated bakes, your streaks and milestones.

ASK THE BOOK, NOT THE INTERNET
Ask Loafy answers from The Sourdough Framework rather than from whatever a search engine turns up. Ask about a specific bake and it reads that bake’s numbers before it answers. Every answer points at the chapter it came from.

CHECK YOUR CRUMB
Photograph the cut loaf and Ask Loafy reads the crumb on The Bread Code’s crumb map: underfermented, overfermented, underbaked, or just right. Tell it which bake it was and the answer knows that bake’s numbers.

ALWAYS AT HAND
A kitchen timer widget on your home screen shows the timers that end next, and a Quick Settings tile opens Loafy listening for your question.

Everything syncs to your free Loafy account, on Android, iPhone and loafy.ai. Loafy speaks English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch.