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Bake real sourdough.
Skip the guesswork.

Levain is the all-in-one sourdough app — learn the craft, track your starter's peak, and follow recipes with smart timers. Beautiful, and 100% offline.

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Recipes

AllBeginnerRustic
75% hydration

Classic Country Loaf

⏱ 24h · ● Intermediate

Seeded Rye

Soft Sandwich

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Good morning, Vini

let's bake something warm

82%to peak
Almost ready

Your starter is peaking

Fed 6h ago · Peak in ~2h

🍚Feed
🥄Discard
🔥Bake

Continue learning

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The Starter — Building a Levain

How it works

Three steps to your
first great loaf

Set up in a minute. Pull warm bread out of the oven this weekend.

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Doughy · rye starter

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Wake up your starter

Add your levain and Levain tracks every feed — showing the exact moment it peaks and is ready to bake.

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Bake mode

Step 3 of 8 · Bulk fermentation

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✓Autolyse45m
✓Mix & salt15m
▶Stretch & foldnow
Shape20m

Follow the bake

Pick a recipe and let guided timers walk you through autolyse, folds, shaping and proof — with a nudge at every step.

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Bake logged!

Country Loaf · today
Crust★★★★★
Crumb★★★★☆
🔥 4-bake streakkeep it going

Pull out real bread

Open crumb, crackly crust. Log the bake with a photo and notes, keep your streak, and make the next one even better.

Beyond the recipe

Built to make you
a better baker

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Living starter tracker

Status, feeds and a fridge-aware peak estimate tuned to your kitchen — so you never guess if it's ready.

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A real course

27 lessons across 5 modules — ingredients, starter, method and troubleshooting — with quizzes and gentle gamification.

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Baker's toolkit

Hydration calculator, stacked bake timers, journal and shopping list — every tool a home baker reaches for, in one place.

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Streaks & badges

Keep a baking streak and unlock badges as your skills rise. Small wins that keep you coming back to the oven.

Got questions?

FAQ

What exactly is Levain?⌄
The all-in-one sourdough companion: a full course, a living starter tracker, a recipe library with guided bake mode, and a toolkit of calculators and timers — all bundled into one warm, offline app.
I'm a total beginner — is this for me?⌄
Absolutely. The course starts from your very first feed and explains the why, not just the steps. Pair it with the beginner recipes and Levain walks you all the way to your first loaf.
How does the peak estimate work?⌄
Levain factors in your feed ratio, ambient temperature and whether the starter is on the counter or in the fridge, then shows a live rise curve with the moment it peaks — the sweet spot to bake.
Does it really work offline?⌄
100%. No account, no cloud, no tracking. Every lesson, recipe and tool is bundled with the app and lives on your device — it works on a plane with zero signal.
What's the difference between Free and Premium?⌄
Free gives you the starter tracker, the first course module, a handful of core recipes and the hydration calculator. Premium unlocks the full 27-lesson course, all 15 recipes with bake mode, the peak calculator, journal and every tool — with a 7-day free trial ($14.99/month or $99.99/year).
Which devices are supported?⌄
iPhone on iOS 16 and later, in English, Português and Español. Levain follows your system light or dark theme automatically.