✨ Quick Start Presets
Select a bread type to auto-fill all settings. Adjust anything after.
🥖 Dough Amount
1 Using a baking pan?
No — I'll enter flour weight directly
Enter total flour weight for your recipe.
g of flour
🍞 How many pans will this fill?
Select pan shape and enter dimensions to calculate pans needed from your total dough.
L × W × Depth (inches). Depth optional — omit for flat sheet pans.
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inches
🌾 Flour Blend
2 What flour(s) are you using?
Select one or more. Percentages must total 100%.
No matching flours.
Flour total
0%
💧 Hydration
3 Target hydration (%)
52–100%. Lower = denser crust, higher = open crumb.
3a Liquid type
Water content varies by liquid. The app adjusts your water automatically to maintain your target hydration.
🧬 Fermentation
4 Leavening method
Preferments (biga, poolish, sponge, mother) use a portion of your total flour and water — not extra.
Yeast (% of flour)
Instant yeast: 0.5–1%. Active dry: 1–1.5%.
🧂 Salt
5 Salt (% of flour)
Typical range: 1–3%. Standard bread salt is 2%.
🧈 Enrichments
6 Enrichments (optional)
Percentages of total flour weight. Eggs and milk powder automatically adjust your water to maintain target hydration.
🥜 Dry Inclusions
7 Dry add-ins (optional)
Select and set percentage of total flour weight for each.
No matching dry add-ins.
🫒 Wet Inclusions
8 Wet add-ins (optional)
Wet inclusions contribute moisture. Their effective water is automatically deducted from your dough water to maintain target hydration.
No matching wet add-ins.
⏱ Fermentation Schedule
9 When do you want to bake?
Enter your target bake time and room temperature to get a step-by-step backwards schedule.
Bake at
Room temp (°F)
🌡 Dough Temperature
10 What water temperature do I need?
Work out the water temperature that lands your dough at its target after mixing.
Mixing method
Fill in the questions on the left
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🎨 Appearance
Theme
🌐 Language
Language
⚖️ Units
Weight
Temperature
💾 Backup & RestorePRO
Backup
Download a backup file containing all your saved recipes and app settings.
Restore
Restore from a previously downloaded backup file. This will overwrite your current recipes and settings.
🔑 Bread Maker Pro
Pro is unlocked on this device. Thank you for supporting Bread Maker.
Find your license key in your Niagara Indie Apps order confirmation email.
⚖️ About & Legal
Bread Maker
Baker's Percentage Calculator
⏱ Start a Timer
Tap a common baking step, or set your own. Timers keep counting while the app is open and show as finished when you return.
Active Timers