Pandough

Pandough vs PizzApp

Two phones on a mint background: PizzApp's orange dough calculator beside Pandough's recipe home screen
Mike Piechota
August 19, 2026

PizzApp is a free, precise calculator for people who already understand dough parameters well. It quickly calculates a recipe, but you still need the knowledge to judge whether the plan makes sense. The interface is technical, with almost no warnings.

Pandough takes a different approach: it considers the specific flour and schedule, shows how the dough is expected to behave, and warns you when a plan may fail.

PandoughPizzApp
ScopeFlour-first dough planning serviceOffline calculator for bakers who already know the knobs
Learning curveAsks for the kitchen you haveFast if you know the code-names, slow if you do not
Where it runsBrowser, or a PWA, which is the way to use itNative iOS and Android, works offline
FlourLive catalog of commercial bagsNo flour field. You hold that.
EngineCrowd-sourced from confirmed bakes, kept currentFixed model you operate yourself
FeedbackGraph of where the dough will land, warnings, tipsAlmost no warnings
PhoneInstall as a PWAiOS build warms the phone and drains the battery
Price to startCore calculator freeFree 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.

FAQ

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.
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.
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.
Spiral mixer beside a tablet running Pandough

What is Pandough?

Pandough is a dough manager that builds a precise plan around your flour, kitchen, oven and schedule.

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