Your sourdough baking companion
Tell Dough it yourself when your bread should be ready. The app plans every step backwards, adapts fermentation times to your kitchen and reminds you in time. From starter to cooled loaf.
How it works
You decide when the bread should be on the table. The app works out the rest.
Start with the built-in Carrot Buttermilk Bread or create your own recipe in the recipe editor.
Choose “Start now” or “Finish at…”. The app works back from there and shows you when to begin.
Timers and reminders guide you through every step. If something takes longer, the app moves the rest of your plan along.
Features
From planning to your starter to your baking journal: Dough it yourself is with you through the whole bake.
Plan
Set when the bread should be ready. The app subtracts every step’s duration from that time and adapts the starter, bulk fermentation and warm proof to your room temperature.
Starter
Add your starters with a name and an icon, log every feeding and see at a glance when the next one is due.
Journal & achievements
After each bake, record how your bread turned out: with up to five photos, stars for crust, crumb, flavor and oven spring, and notes for next time.
Choose the weekdays your bread should be ready. The app reminds you in time to start.
Complete a step, add 10 minutes or skip it. Even with several loaves at once.
Your own recipes with steps, ingredients and live baker’s percentages.
Plan anything from half to twenty times the amount, with all raw ingredients on one shopping list.
Ten flour types with protein content are built in. Adding your own flours is easy.
Share recipes as PDF. Anyone with the app can import them, with a preview and duplicate check.
Every step checks in on time, right with “+10 min” or “Skip”. No server involved.
Save recipes, starters, your journal with photos and settings in one file, also for your next device.
The app speaks German and English and works in °C or °F and in grams or ounces.
Privacy
Dough it yourself needs no account and no server. Everything you create is stored only locally on your iPhone or iPad.
The app does not connect to the internet.
No sign-up, no email address, no login.
No analytics, no ads, no in-app purchases.
Support
Do you have a question, did you find a bug or do you have an idea for the app? Drop us a line, we are happy to help.
Dough it yourself is a one-time purchase on the App Store, where you can see the current price.
After that there are no subscriptions, no in-app purchases and no ads.
No. The app works without an account and completely offline.
Only locally on your device. The app does not upload anything.
Yes. Under Settings → Backup & Restore you can export recipes, starters, bakes, your journal with photos and your settings as one file (up to 70 MB).
When restoring, the app adds the data from the backup without overwriting anything you already have.
When you start a bake, the app asks whether it may send notifications. If you declined, allow them in the iOS Settings under Notifications → Dough it yourself.
You can send a test notification from the app’s settings.
German and English. Temperatures are shown in °C or °F, weights in grams or ounces.
Not yet. Dough it yourself is currently available for iPhone and iPad.
Get Dough it yourself on the App Store and plan your next bake day.
Privacy
Last updated: October 9, 2026
This is a translation for your convenience. The German version of this privacy policy is authoritative.
This privacy policy applies to the Dough it yourself app and to this website. In short: the app works completely offline. It does not transfer any personal data to us or to third parties, needs no account and contains no ads, analytics or tracking services.
You can find further details in our legal notice.
Everything you create in the app is stored only locally on your device:
We have no access to this data. The app does not connect to our own servers or to third-party services, and there is no cloud sync.
Notifications: So that the app can remind you of baking steps, scheduled bakes and feedings, it asks for permission to send notifications. Reminders are scheduled on your device and are not sent via a server.
Camera and photos: You can take photos for your baking journal or pick them from your photo library. The app keeps them in its local storage and does not upload them. If you want, it also saves photos you take to your photo library.
You can revoke these permissions at any time in the iOS Settings.
Data only leaves your device when you explicitly trigger it: when you share a recipe as a PDF or export a backup. You choose where the file goes, for example into a message or the Files app. The privacy terms of the service you choose apply. A backup contains all data from the app, including photos and private notes, so please keep it safe.
You download and buy Dough it yourself via Apple’s App Store. Apple processes data such as your Apple Account and purchase and payment information under its own responsibility; Apple’s privacy policy applies. From Apple we only receive aggregated statistics, for example on downloads and sales, and crash reports if you have agreed on your device to share them with app developers. These do not allow us to identify you personally.
This website is hosted by Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Ave #4133, Covina, CA 91723, USA (“Vercel”). When you visit it, Vercel automatically processes information your browser sends: IP address, date and time of access, page requested, referrer URL and browser type and operating system. This data is technically necessary to deliver the website and keep it secure. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in providing the website securely and reliably.
Vercel processes the data as a processor on our behalf (Art. 28 GDPR). Data may be transferred to the USA. The transfer is based on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Art. 45 GDPR) and additionally on the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses (Art. 46 GDPR). Log data is only kept as long as necessary for these purposes.
The website sets no cookies, uses no analytics or tracking services and loads no third-party content. An Apple page only opens when you click a link to the App Store.
If you email us, we process your email address, your name (if provided) and the content of your message to answer your request. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your request concerns the use of the app, and otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in answering requests). We delete the data once it is no longer needed and no statutory retention obligations apply.
The app is not specifically aimed at children. As it does not transfer any personal data to us, we do not collect data from children either.
When you delete the app, iOS removes all of the app’s data from your device. Exported backups and shared PDF files must be deleted wherever you stored them.
You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and data portability (Art. 20 GDPR). You may also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). As the app stores your data only on your device, we usually do not hold any data about you from the app.
Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR): Where we process data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, you can object to this processing at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation.
If the app or this website changes, we will update this privacy policy. You can always find the current version on this page.
If you have any questions about privacy, contact us at [email protected].
