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Saved blends work with a preferment again
Adding a sourdough or another preferment to a dough made with one of your saved flour blends could show an error page. The calculator now keeps working.
Changelog
What changed in Pandough for bakers, newest first.
November 2026
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Community: one Question channel and team Updates
Questions and advice now share the Question channel. A new Updates channel brings news about Pandough from the team, and anyone can filter the feed to it.
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Back button in the installed app
When Pandough is added to your home screen, every page now has a back button in the top bar, so you no longer get stuck on pages without one.
October 2026
Flours
Sourced fermentation windows for 62 flours
Each now carries a fermentation window and hydration range based on published data.
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Schedules that survive the clock change
Day labels, night avoidance and quiet hours follow the wall clock across midnight and daylight saving.
Ovens
More honest oven timings
A bare rack bakes slowest, home ovens need 45 minutes of preheat, and calibration notes say what they are based on.
Mixers
The mixer's heat by speed
Mixer heat depends on tool speed, hydration and fill, with the speed split in the water sheet.
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Water temperature with ice
The mix water is worked out as a heat balance, and ice is given in grams for any dough.
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Plans land on whole hours
A plan started now is rounded to the nearest hour, while times you type stay exact.
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Levain forecast
Your starter's age and ripeness now shape the dough's rise and its forecast.
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Pin the start, the mix or the bake
Fix any of the three times and the plan fills the gap, with a summary bar for start, total, bake and yeast.
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A water sheet built around a gauge
Water temperature has its own gauge, and autolyse and a mid-mix pause are part of the plan.
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The assistant reads your bake's steps
Ask about your bake and it knows the instructions you are following.
Formulas
Full instructions free for two formulas
Neapolitan and Classica instructions are free with an account, PRO elsewhere.
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Warm-up before the fridge dough goes in
A planned fridge dough gets a warm-up leg, and custom fermentation legs work up to six.
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Customize and save
Make a formula your own, save it, and share it with a link that others can open in the calculator.
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A finished bake is a record
A completed bake becomes read-only with its steps as a log, and Bake again is the way forward.
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Three ways to set yeast
Take the calculated dose, correct it by a percentage, or fix an exact dose.
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Edit while you bake
Change the plan from inside the step-by-step instructions.
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Formula pages
Every formula has a page with its history, how to make it, common mistakes and recommended flours, plus a hub to browse them all.
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My formulas
Save your own formulas, reuse them and pin the ones you bake most.
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Czech
Pandough is now available in Czech.
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Step-by-step instructions for every formula
A new Start window walks you through the bake, adapting each step to your schedule, with photos for mise, preferments, mixing and bulk.
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Bassinage
Hold back a small late reserve of water. It is automatic by default.
Academy
A simpler Academy landing
Editorial course covers and a clearer path to the first lesson.
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Community
Post your bakes, follow tags, build a profile and browse a community catalog.
Mixers
Mixer Lab
Compare mixers on charts, and see formulas listed on mixer and oven pages.
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A Simple calculator
Pick a formula and go, with Classic still there when you want every control.
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Flat dough, diagnosed
A troubleshooting guide with a short questionnaire that finds the likely cause.
September 2026
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Tell us how the bake went
A short sheet after the bake asks how it turned out and feeds back into oven and flour guidance.
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Tips that find you
Short feature tips appear across the app and can be dismissed.
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Reviews with photos
Post photos with your review, edit it later, and see a gallery on the page. One review per baker.
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Dark mode
Choose Light, Dark or System.
Flours
More ways to filter flours
Filter by gluten-free, mixes, grain and added ingredients.
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The fermentation graph predicts your dough
The graph now uses your flour's own behaviour, not a generic curve.
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Gluten-free dough, modelled properly
Hydration, fermentation and heat warnings for gluten-free mixes, including starches and binders.
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Flour pages describe behaviour, not stars
Star ratings are replaced by a profile of how the flour behaves in dough.
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A bigger search palette
Jump to pages, flours, ovens and mixers from one search box, with fuzzy matching for typos.
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Try PRO features as you go
Guided trials let you use a PRO feature before you decide, and pricing is in the main navigation.
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Hungarian
Pandough is now available in Hungarian.
Ovens
Lidl pizza ovens
The Lidl pizza-wave ovens are in the catalog.
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Preferment help card
A short explanation of poolish, biga and levain appears where you choose one, with a reverse-gear check for biga in mixers.
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The mixer catalog
Browse stand mixers, spiral mixers and food processors, set which you own, and the calculator uses their effect on dough temperature.
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Account settings in a sheet
Settings open over the page you are on instead of replacing it.
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The assistant sees your sensor readings
Ask a question and it knows the live temperature of your dough or fridge.
Ovens
Baking surface and tips per oven
Each oven page names its baking surface and gives tips for it, with a recommended maximum temperature.
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Invite friends, earn PRO
Invite a baker and both of you get PRO time.
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Short links for sharing a bake
Share a bake with a pandough.app/b link.
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Freshly milled flour
The calculator knows fresh flour ferments faster and gives a softer dough.
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Cold proofs up to 7 days
A cold leg can now last up to 168 hours.
Flours
Suggested hydration starts from the flour's strength
Hydration ranges follow the flour's W, with a reworked Quick Add sheet.
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Browning help for home ovens
A bake-balance graph and a browning-agent card help when a home oven cannot brown the crust on its own.
Ovens
Compare ovens as you select them
A floating bar appears after you pick an oven so you can compare in one tap.
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Ask ChatGPT or Claude about your bakes
Connect your account with one link and your assistant can see your active bakes.
August 2026
Flours
Flour strength and browning, reworked
Strength and browning readouts use better data, so the numbers on flour pages agree with the calculator.
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One mixing method picker everywhere
The same picker appears in the calculator, the water sheet and your account.
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Levain seed and a ready-at-mix card
Tell the calculator how much starter you keep, and it shows when it should be ripe for mixing.
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Buy on Amazon for ovens, books, gear and sensors
Catalog pages link to the product when we found a real listing, in your country's store.
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Pick a formula from cards inside the calculator
The formula chooser now sits in the page, as large cards, and respects the Back button.
Ovens
Two Ninja outdoor ovens
The Ninja EU outdoor pizza ovens are in the catalog.
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One continuous support chat
Your conversations with Pandough support stay in a single thread.
Academy
Academy course pages and lesson progress
Courses have their own landing pages, and lessons track where you are.
Flours
30 Mulino Marino flours
The Italian stone-ground range is now in the catalog.
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Swap one flour in a blend
Replace a single flour in a blend without taking the whole blend apart.
Flours
Caputo and Mlinotest flours corrected
The full Caputo lineup is rebuilt from what the maker publishes, and Mlinotest flours are rebuilt too.
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Portioning for shapes that are not balls
Pans, slabs and logs get their own portioning controls, with thickness and weight-sized pans. Portions can be as small as 1 g.
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Dough ageing, not just yeast activity
Long ferments now account for the dough itself maturing, which makes late-stage advice more realistic.
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Fahrenheit no longer forces ounces
Choose temperature and weight units separately. Grams are now the default everywhere, including the US.
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Your kitchen, flour and fridge temperatures
Set your room and flour temperature once, and a confirmed bake remembers the kitchen it was baked in. The water card shows every number it was computed from.
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All warnings in one place
Alerts used to be spread over five spots. They now live together, and each step's badge counts the same warnings you see in its drawer.
July 2026
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Hydration slider shows flour and oven at a glance
The colour of the slider follows your flour, and its height follows what your oven can bake.
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Shelly sensors set themselves up
Pairing a Shelly sensor now happens over your local network, with no manual configuration.
Formulas
Canotto pizza
The puffy, contemporary Neapolitan style has its own formula.
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One picker for flours, formulas, ovens and toppings
Browsing and selecting works the same way everywhere, with the same filters and search.
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The oven shapes your hydration advice
The hydration slider shows how your oven's heat shifts the sensible range, and a notice tells you when a dough is too wet for your oven to bake well.
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An oven shelf instead of one favourite oven
Keep all your ovens on a shelf, switch between them per bake, and manage them right from the calculator.
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Sugar is an ingredient you can edit
Add or change sugar like you already could with oil.
Formulas
14 more formulas, grouped by bake family
The formula switcher grows by fourteen styles and groups them by what you are baking, such as pizza, bread and focaccia.
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A richer home dashboard
Your home page now shows an active bake card with its temperature graph, bake stats, and paging through your past bakes.
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Set the preferment yeast yourself
Type your own yeast dose for a preferment instead of taking the calculated one.
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Both fermentation graphs at once on desktop
On a large screen you no longer tab between the two fermentation graphs. Both are shown side by side.
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Warning for cold dough going straight into the fridge
If a dough is still cold when it goes into the fridge, the calculator now says so and explains why it ferments slower than planned.
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PRO by the month
PRO is now available monthly as well as yearly, so you can try it without committing to a full year.
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A clearer view of fermentation
Two new views show where your dough is in fermentation, when it reaches its best window and when more time starts to weaken it. Set the yeast by hand and your schedule stays put while the view shows the effect. After one online visit, the calculator keeps working offline with your draft and your flours.
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Live temperature sensors
PRO bakers can connect a temperature sensor such as the Shelly H&T Gen3 and plan with real counter and fridge readings. Pandough tells you when the temperature drifts from the plan, for example a fridge running warm.
March 2026
Flours
Blend your own flour
Blend two to four flours and use the mix like any single flour, with its own protein, strength, hydration range and fermentation window. Save a blend to reuse it. Poolish and biga also get their own duration slider and their own flour.
Ovens
Pizza oven database
Browse 49 pizza ovens from 22 brands with their top temperature, heat-up time and size, and compare up to four side by side. Review the ovens you own to help other bakers choose.
February 2026
Formulas
Step-by-step instructions with photos
The step-by-step instructions have a new layout with real photos and separate steps for hand mixing, a stand mixer or a Thermomix. Yeast steps show a reference photo for fresh or dry yeast.
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Schedules that respect your flour
Plans start from your start time and bake time and pick the schedule with the fewest trade-offs. If warm fermentation would run longer than your flour can take, part of it moves to the fridge. You can edit proofing steps in place and see a warning before a risky window.
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Share your dough setup
Send a link that opens your full dough setup for another baker. During a bake you can tick off steps yourself, and bassinage water appears as separate amounts.
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Plan by hours
Hours mode lets you set warm and cold fermentation times directly, next to planning from a start or bake time. The yeast amount now also adapts to your flour's strength.
January 2026
Flours
71 new flours
The flour database grew by 71 flours to nearly 200, with new ones from Italy, Poland, Germany and France. Each comes with protein, W strength, a hydration range and warm and cold fermentation windows.
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See when your preferment is ready
Poolish and biga now show whether they are young, developing, at peak or over-ripe, adjusted for your room temperature. Yeast amounts were recalibrated with feedback from professional bakers and run lower for long fermentation.
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Pandough opens its beta
Plan a whole bake in one place, from mixing and proofing to shaping and baking. Hydration and yeast follow your flour, fermentation time and temperature, and the plan can work backwards from the time you want to bake.