Dough Mate
An app for perfecting pizza dough. Enter your flour, hydration level, and proofing time; Dough Mate calculates ideal ratios and reminds you when to stretch and fold.
- Year
- 2025
- Role
- Solo build · weekends
- Tech
- SwiftUI
- iOS
- Local notifications
What it is
An iOS app for people who make pizza at home and have ever burned a stretch-and-fold by forgetting the timer. It calculates dough ratios from your flour weight, hydration target, and proofing schedule, then schedules notifications for each step.
Why I built it
I'd been keeping a notebook of my dough experiments for a year and realised the limiting factor wasn't the recipe — it was remembering when to do the next thing. The app is essentially a notebook with a timer attached.
What it doesn't do
- It doesn't have a recipe library. You bring your own.
- It doesn't have an Apple Watch app. (Maybe one day.)
- It doesn't sync to iCloud. The dough is local; so is the data.
The technique it taught me
Building the calculator forced me to actually understand baker's percentages. Now I can riff on dough ratios in my head, which has affected my real-world cooking more than any individual recipe ever did.