How Crust works

Tell Crust what you want to make, when you want it ready and when you're available. Crust works out the rest.

The flow

1. 1

   Pick what you're making

   Choose a style from the library or a saved recipe. Adjust the batch size in the calculator if you need more or fewer.

2. 2

   Choose a workflow

   Pick a fermentation rhythm that suits your day. 'Plan with this' carries it straight into the plan page.

3. 3

   Anchor it to real time

   Tell Crust when you want to bake — or when you're starting — and it lays every stage out on the clock.

4. 4

   Let Crust fit your day

   With working windows on, passive stages stretch or shrink so hands-on steps land when you're free. Crust shows what it changed and any yeast tweak to match.

5. 5

   Start the dough

   It becomes your live plan: one clear next step, a countdown and reminders. Finish a step early or late and everything after it recalculates.

6. 6

   Bake and log it

   When the countdown ends, bake — then log the result with a rating and notes.

How the pages link together

  Recipes ─┐
           ├─► Plan ─► Live dough ─► History
Workflows ─┘     ▲          ▲
                 │          │
          Working windows  Timers &
            (Settings)    reminders

A recipe says what. A workflow says how long. The plan page turns those two into real times, and your working windows decide where the hands-on steps can sit.

What each part does

• Home

  Your dough at a glance — the next step and countdown when something is fermenting, quick starts when it isn't.

  Open here. Tap a category to jump straight into planning.

• Dough calculator

  Baker's percentages for any batch: flour blends, hydration, salt, oil, yeast or starter, preferments and pan loading.

  When you want the numbers, or to tweak a recipe before saving it.

• Recipes & library

  Saved recipes plus a browsable library of styles by category, each with a baker's guide.

  To pick what you're making, or save your own formula.

• Workflows

  The fermentation stages — mix, bulk, shape, cold proof, warm up, bake — with durations and which steps need you present.

  To choose a rhythm (same-day, overnight, 72 hour) or build your own.

• Plan

  Puts a recipe and a workflow on a real clock. Anchor forwards from mixing or backwards from the bake, and see the whole schedule day by day.

  Every time you start a dough.

• Working windows

  The hours you're actually free. Crust reshapes passive stages so hands-on steps land inside them, and explains every change.

  Set once in Settings, then forget about it.

• Bake history

  Log the bake with a rating, temperatures and notes so the next one is better.

  After it comes out of the oven.

Good to know

• Everything lives on your device — no account, no server.
• Starter is counted inside your hydration, never added on top.
• Fermentation times are estimates. Judge the dough, not the clock.
• Add Crust to your home screen for a full-screen app with offline access.