Artisan Batch Master is a fully offline utility designed for bakers to manage bread recipes, calculate hydration, scale batches, and log daily kitchen observations. Built specifically for home bakers and micro-bakery professionals, the app helps you manage bread formulas with precision and keep a structured log of your baking processes without requiring an internet connection.
Key Features:
• Hydration & Baker's Percentage Calculator
- Enter your base flour weight in grams (100%).
- Manually enter or adjust dough hydration percentage (water %) using quick controls.
- Input salt and yeast percentages.
- View a dynamically updated formula table showing the calculated weights for flour, water, salt, yeast, and total dough.
- Estimate your production yield in loaves based on a standard banneton weight of 750g.
• Custom Recipe Book
- Create and save your own traditional baking formulas.
- Add a custom recipe title, description, and preparation steps.
- Configure base weights for flour and percentages for hydration, salt, yeast, and extra ingredients.
- Search your stored recipes instantly using the built-in search bar.
- Delete custom recipes that are no longer needed.
• Instant Batch Scaler
- Scale any saved recipe up or down using quick presets (x0.5, x1, x2, x3, x5).
- Input custom decimal scale factors to match your exact baking batch size.
- View real-time adjustments of ingredient weights alongside base weights in the formula table.
• Daily Production Checklist
- Track your daily baking steps with an interactive checklist.
- Monitor your checklist progress with a visual percentage bar.
- Reset the daily checklist with a single tap.
• Baking Timer Log
- Create custom countdown timers for different baking stages.
- Label each timer (e.g., autolyse, bulk ferment, final proof, oven bake).
- Assign a type to each timer (Proofing or Baking).
- Play, pause, reset, or delete active timers.
• Notepad Logs (Kitchen climate & observations)
- Log kitchen temperature in Celsius and humidity percentage.
- Write down observations about bulk rise speed, dough stickiness, crumb texture, or oven steam levels.
- View, edit, or delete historical notepad logs in a chronological list.
• Local Privacy & Security
- All calculations, recipes, timers, and logs are saved locally on your device.
- Zero data is collected or transmitted; The app works completely offline without network permissions.
- Restore all local database storage to factory defaults at any time.