Pizza Nerd: Pizza Calculator

Andrew Savoie

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About this app

🍕 Pizza Nerd – The Pizza Calculator That Teaches You How

Stop guessing. Start making incredible pizza at home. For less than a slice, master the art and science of pizza dough.

Pizza Nerd isn't just a calculator — it's a coach. Every recipe comes with dynamic, science-backed instructions that adapt to your kitchen temperature, fermentation length, oven type, and yeast choice. Whether you're chasing a leoparded Neapolitan crown or a crispy Detroit corner, Pizza Nerd gets the dough right the first time.


🍕 16 AUTHENTIC PIZZA STYLES
Each style is calibrated by professional bakers — not generic templates.
• Neapolitan — soft, charred, leopard-spotted classic
• New York — foldable, structured, irresistible
• New Haven — thin, crisp, charred apizza
• Detroit — crispy frico edges, airy crumb
• Chicago Deep Dish & Chicago Thin
• Sicilian & Grandma — focaccia-cousin pan styles
• Roman al Taglio & Pizza alla Pala — long-fermented Roman classics
• Focaccia — pillowy and dimpled
• California — wood-fired, ingredient-driven
• Montreal — Quebec's underrated regional gem
• Flammkuchen, Coca, Lahmacun — European cousins worth knowing


🧪 BAKER'S MATH, NO MATH HEADACHES
True baker's percentages under the hood — every ingredient calculated to the gram.
• Adjusts for hydration, salt, oil, sugar, preferments
• Final Dough Temperature (FDT) water-temp calculator
• Power-curve yeast model recalibrated on real PizzApp data
• NEW Rapid preset — true 2-hour emergency pizza (1h bulk + 1h proof)
• NEW Measurement Guide — no scale? We'll convert grams to teaspoons
• Total flour weight readout for fast recipe comparison


🌍 GLOBAL FLOUR DATABASE (100+ FLOURS)
Find your real flour — not a generic "00".
• Italian Caputo, Le 5 Stagioni, Petra, Polselli, Mulino Marino
• American King Arthur, Bob's Red Mill, Central Milling, Bay State Milling
• Canadian Robin Hood, Five Roses, Anita's
• French T45/T55/T65, Spanish, German, UK strong bread, Australian, and more
• Smart equivalents — swap flours across regions with confidence


⏱️ STAGE TIMER & QUICK SETS
• Live fermentation progress with stage-by-stage guidance
• Quick Sets for one-tap dough setups (4 balls / 6 balls / party batch)
• Save and reload your favourite recipes


📓 BAKE LOG (Plus)
Track every bake — flour, hydration, ferment time, results, photos, lessons. Build your personal pizza playbook.


💰 COST CALCULATOR (Pro)
Run a pizza pop-up or thinking about going pro? See the per-pie cost of flour, yeast, salt, oil, sauce, cheese, and toppings. Know your margins before you serve.


🎓 LEARN
In-app articles on hydration, autolyse, cold ferment, oven hot spots, sauce balance, dough temperature — written for nerds who want to know why, not just what.


💎 FREE, PLUS & PRO
• Free — full calculator, all 16 styles, dynamic instructions, flour database
• Plus — Bake Log, recipe library, advanced ferment tools
• Pro — Cost Calculator and pop-up tools (built for serious home bakers and side-hustle pizzaiolos)


Built by a pizza-obsessed home baker, refined by a community of testers around the world. No ads. No tracking. Just dough.

Bake nerdy. 🍕

What’s new

Pizza Nerd 1.6.0 introduces a redesigned fermentation experience with improved Direct Dough and Master Preferments workflows for Poolish, Biga, and Tiga. This release also adds native timer notifications, so dough timers can alert you while the app is in the background. It also includes clearer fermentation guidance, improved recipe instructions, automatic practical measurements, flour display improvements, and numerous fixes and refinements throughout the calculator.