FormulaMapsLet's start where honesty demands: the Ooni app's dough calculator is excellent. It is free on iOS and Android, with no ads and no paywall, and it is one of the best-designed tools in its category. It handles Neapolitan, New York, Detroit and Roman styles, supports preferments in advanced mode, and adjusts yeast automatically according to time and temperature — the part most people get wrong. If you make pizza at home, or you run a pizza-only kitchen, there is very little reason to look further. This page is about a different situation: when pizza is one of several things your workshop has to get right.
FormulaMaps vs. the Ooni dough calculator at a glance
| Feature | FormulaMaps | Ooni app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Complete: €6.90/month or €69/year (Latin America & Brazil: €2.90/month or €29/year) · free forever: 3 formulas + 10 AI uses/month + public no-signup calculators | Free · no ads, no paywall |
| Where it runs | Any browser — including the shared workshop computer. No install | App for iOS and Android |
| Pizza dough | Yes — baker's percentage with ranges for Neapolitan pizza and pan pizza/teglia | Yes — Neapolitan, New York, Detroit and Roman |
| Preferments | Not documented here | Yes — advanced mode |
| Automatic yeast by time & temperature | Not documented here | Yes |
| Other dough types | Yes — common bread, baguette, ciabatta, sandwich loaf, brioche, rustic sourdough | Focused on the four pizza styles above |
| Beyond dough | Yes — 5 crafts: ice cream, pastry, bakery, turrón, cacao | Pizza-centred: hundreds of recipes, technique guides, video tutorials |
| Costing per formula | Yes | Not documented here |
| Commercial flour database | General flour types + your own ingredients | No — general flour types |
| Oven integration | Oven-agnostic | Yes — Bluetooth live temperature for Ooni oven owners |
| Save & share recipes | Yes | Yes — save, name and share calculations |
| AI assistant · API · MCP | Yes — AI tutor over a deterministic engine, public API and native MCP server | Not documented here |
| Languages | 5 | Not documented here |
Ooni app data from its public app store listings and a February 2026 comparative review of dough calculators (retrieved 19 July 2026). FormulaMaps is not affiliated with Ooni; Ooni is a trademark of its owner. "Not documented here" means this page makes no claim either way. FormulaMaps data verified in the app itself.
The 10-second verdict
- Choose the Ooni app for home pizza and Ooni ovens: polished, free, with recipes and live oven temperature if you own one.
- Choose FormulaMaps for a workshop: baker's percentage with professional ranges, costing, and the other four crafts in the same account.
- Either way: both calculators are free — run the same dough through both.
Why consider FormulaMaps
1. Because a workshop is not only pizza
This is the honest difference, and it is not about quality — it is about who each tool was built for. The Ooni calculator is a companion for pizza, and for Ooni's ovens. FormulaMaps is a formulation program for a whole workshop: the same account that works out a Neapolitan dough also balances an ice cream, prices a sponge cake and formulates a chocolate. Five crafts — ice cream, pastry, bakery, turrón and cacao — under one engine, so your Monday bread and your Saturday gelato live in the same place.
2. It runs in the browser, not on a phone you have to install it on
The other structural difference — again, not a flaw, just two models. Ooni's is an app you install on iOS or Android. FormulaMaps runs in any browser: your laptop, a tablet at the bench, and above all the shared computer in the workshop, the one everybody uses and nobody wants to install things on. Nothing to download, nothing tied to one device.
3. Baker's percentage with professional ranges per dough type
FormulaMaps runs a baker's percentage engine that checks your formula against professional ranges for each dough type: common bread, baguette, ciabatta, Neapolitan pizza, pan pizza / teglia, sandwich loaf, brioche and rustic sourdough. And it counts the real water content of milk, egg and butter, so a brioche's true hydration is the one you actually see on screen instead of the flattering number a naive calculator gives you.
4. Costing, because someone has to sell it
A dough calculator tells you grams. A workshop also needs to know what the batch costs. FormulaMaps prices every formula from your own ingredient costs, in every craft — dough, ice cream, pastry, turrón, cacao — so the technical decision and the commercial one sit on the same screen.
5. An AI tutor on top of a deterministic engine — and an open door for machines
The maths is deterministic; the AI tutor sits on top of it to explain what a number means and what to change, never to invent it. Beyond the screen there is a public API and a native MCP server, so your own tools — or an AI agent — can query the engine directly. It is available in 5 languages.
6. Made by people who have been at it since 1947
FormulaMaps comes from Familia Llinares, in Azuaga (Spain), working since 1947. The technical ranges the engine checks your formula against come from that background: generations of actually making the product, not just modelling it.
To be fair
If you make pizza — at home or in a pizza-only kitchen — the Ooni app is superb, and free. Four styles, preferments, yeast adjusted automatically by time and temperature, saved and named calculations you can share, plus hundreds of recipes, step-by-step technique guides and video tutorials around it. And if you own an Ooni oven, the Bluetooth live temperature monitoring is something no browser tool will match. Honestly: for that job, download it. FormulaMaps earns its place somewhere else — when your workshop has to balance ice cream and price a sponge cake and formulate a chocolate alongside the dough, when you need costing and technical ranges across several dough types, and when the tool has to open on whatever computer is free.
Test it with your own recipe
No account and no install needed. Open the free pizza dough hydration calculator in your browser, type in a dough you already trust, and see the baker's percentages against professional ranges for Neapolitan or pan pizza. Five minutes on any device, and you will know whether this is the tool your workshop was missing — or whether the Ooni app already covers everything you do.
The two-minute dare
Don't take our word for it — or theirs. Run this exact dough through both tools: 1,000 g strong flour (W300) · 620 g water · 28 g salt · 2 g fresh yeast. Both should read 62% hydration — then compare what each one tells you about salt, yeast and the professional range for your style. Do it here, no signup →
Frequently asked questions
Is the Ooni dough calculator free?
Yes. The Ooni app is free for iOS and Android, with no ads and no paywall. Its dough calculator covers Neapolitan, New York, Detroit and Roman styles, supports preferments in advanced mode and adjusts yeast automatically based on time and temperature. FormulaMaps' Complete plan costs €6.90/month or €69/year (Latin America & Brazil: €2.90/month or €29/year), with a 15-day free trial and a free start: 3 formulas forever and 10 AI uses a month, plus public calculators that need no signup at all.
Do I need an Ooni oven to use the Ooni dough calculator?
No. The app is primarily oriented toward Ooni oven owners — for them it adds Bluetooth connectivity for live temperature monitoring — but the calculator works on its own without any oven. FormulaMaps is oven-agnostic and runs in the browser.
What does FormulaMaps do that a pizza dough calculator does not?
It formulates for a whole workshop: five crafts (ice cream, pastry, bakery, turrón, cacao), a baker's percentage engine with professional ranges per dough type — common bread, baguette, ciabatta, Neapolitan pizza, pan pizza/teglia, sandwich loaf, brioche, rustic sourdough — counting the real water in milk, egg and butter, plus costing, an AI tutor over a deterministic engine, a public API with a native MCP server, and 5 languages.
Do I have to install anything to use FormulaMaps?
No. Ooni's is an app you install on a phone or tablet; FormulaMaps runs in any browser, including the shared computer in the workshop. Nothing to download, and there is a public pizza dough hydration calculator you can open without signing up.
Does the Ooni app have a commercial flour database?
No — it works with general flour types rather than a database of named commercial flours.
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