Pandough vs PizzApp
PizzApp is the veteran pizza dough calculator. It is free, it runs offline, and the arithmetic is precise. Type a dough, get a number. People who already know what CY, a biga share, and a 1% preferment dose mean can go from an idea to grams in seconds. The screen is dense, the labels are code-names, and the iOS build will warm the phone and drain the battery while it does it. Warnings are almost absent. That is the deal, and for a baker who already holds those variables, it is a good one.
Pandough asks a narrower question. If the job is a pizza that lands on time, on the flour actually in the bag, how much of that workbench do you need to operate yourself? Pandough is a service. A flour catalog that is kept current. An engine fed by confirmed bakes. A picture of where the dough will land. Guardrails and tips that stop a plan that will not work.
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Recipe: neapolitan pizza • Flour: caputo pizzeria • 60% hydration
| Pandough | PizzApp | |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Flour-first dough planning service | Offline calculator for bakers who already know the knobs |
| Learning curve | Asks for the kitchen you have | Fast if you know the code-names, slow if you do not |
| Where it runs | Browser, or a PWA, which is the way to use it | Native iOS and Android, works offline |
| Flour | Live catalog of commercial bags | No flour field. You hold that. |
| Engine | Crowd-sourced from confirmed bakes, kept current | Fixed model you operate yourself |
| Feedback | Graph of where the dough will land, warnings, tips | Almost no warnings |
| Phone | Install as a PWA | iOS build warms the phone and drains the battery |
| Price to start | Core calculator free | Free with ads |
PizzApp vs Pandough, same dough
PizzApp 1.9 (iOS), yeast read off the screen. Seven schedules, 4 x 250 g, 60% hydration, 2.5% salt, fresh yeast. PizzApp has no flour field, so one line. Pandough on Caputo Classica (W 230) and on Petra 5037 (W 320).
When PizzApp is the right call
Choose PizzApp when you bake one dough, on one flour, in a kitchen you already know. You want a number in ten seconds, no account, no connection. You can read a ball by looking at it, and you do not need the app to tell you a plan is a bad idea.
If you already speak its code-names and you have years of saved formulas, the switching cost is real. Keep it. Swapping it for something heavier would make that workflow worse.
When Pandough is the right call
Choose Pandough when you switch flours, or when pizza has to be ready at a set time. It doses for the bag on the counter, shows the ferment, and says so if the plan will not work.
It is also the difference between a tool one specialist operates on a hot phone and a tool anyone in the kitchen can add as a PWA.
Frequently asked questions
Is Pandough a replacement for PizzApp?
For planning a pizza around the flour in your bag and a time someone is expecting, it can be. For a fast offline number on a phone you already know, no. That job is what PizzApp is for.
Can experienced bakers use Pandough seriously?
Yes. The catalog, the ferment graph, and the refusals are there because a baker who changes flour, retards cold, or bakes for other people is holding more variables than a phone calculator asks about.
Do I need to install anything?
No App Store. Pandough runs in the browser. On a phone, add it as a PWA. That is the way to use it. PizzApp is a native iOS and Android app, which is why it works offline and why the iOS version can warm the phone and drain the battery.
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What is Pandough?
Pandough is a flour-aware dough manager that builds a precise plan around your flour, your kitchen, your oven and your schedule. At its core is Farina Prima, the flour-first method: start with the bag you actually own, then adapt hydration, yeast and fermentation to how that flour behaves in your real baking conditions.
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