FormulaMapsLet's start with the part that is not a sales pitch: Pandough (pandough.app) is very good, and its central idea deserves real admiration. Every dough recipe on the internet quietly assumes a flour you probably do not have. Pandough attacked that problem head-on with Farina Prima — a searchable database of 250+ commercial flours (Caputo, Le 5 Stagioni, Polselli, King Arthur, Central Milling and more), each with its W strength, protein percentage and recommended hydration range — and then made the calculator adapt hydration and fermentation to the specific flour you pick. As far as we know, nobody else is doing that at that scale. If that is the problem you have, go and use it.
This page exists for a different question: what happens when dough is only part of what leaves your workshop.
FormulaMaps vs. Pandough at a glance
| Feature | FormulaMaps | Pandough |
|---|---|---|
| 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 core calculator + PRO at approx. 20 USD/year |
| Where it runs | Any browser, any device | Web app (PWA), any browser, installable — no app store |
| Crafts covered | 5 — bakery, ice cream, pastry, turrón and cacao | Dough: pizza and bread |
| Dough styles | Professional ranges per dough type: common bread, baguette, ciabatta, Neapolitan pizza, pan pizza/teglia, sandwich loaf, brioche, rustic sourdough | Neapolitan, Classic, Focaccia, Baguette, Rustic Bread |
| Preferments | Baker's percentage engine, counting the real water in milk, egg and butter | Direct dough, poolish and biga |
| Commercial flour database | Not offered — ranges are by dough type, not by brand | Yes — Farina Prima, 250+ flours with W, protein and hydration ranges, localized per market |
| Fermentation scheduler | Not offered | Yes — set start and bake times, it reverse-calculates warm and cold proving stages |
| Costing per batch | Yes | Not documented here |
| AI over a deterministic engine | Yes — AI tutor on top of a fixed calculation engine | Knowledge base with articles on fermentation science and flour selection |
| For agents and developers | Yes — public API + native MCP server (9 tools) | Publishes "AI assistants" and "Developers" sections |
| Languages | 5 | 6 (EN · PL · DE · ES · IT · NL), with localized flour databases |
Pandough data and pricing from pandough.app (retrieved 19 July 2026); prices may change — check their site. "Not documented here" means this page makes no claim either way. FormulaMaps data verified in the app itself.
The 10-second verdict
- Choose Pandough if dough is your craft and matching your exact flour matters: their flour-aware engine is genuinely unique at that scale.
- Choose FormulaMaps if dough is one of several things you formulate — bread AND ice cream AND pastry AND chocolate, with costing.
- Either way: both have free tiers. Same dough in both, then decide.
Why consider FormulaMaps
1. Five crafts instead of one
This is the honest difference in scope. Pandough is a dough tool and is very good at being one. FormulaMaps covers bakery, ice cream, pastry, turrón and cacao in a single engine. If your week includes a sourdough, a batch of gelato, a tart and some chocolate work, that is one tool instead of four — and one place where your formulas actually live.
2. Built for the workshop, not only for the perfect bake
Pandough leans towards the enthusiast chasing the best possible result from a given flour, and it earns that focus. FormulaMaps leans towards the professional workshop: alongside the baker's percentage engine and its professional ranges per dough type — common bread, baguette, ciabatta, Neapolitan pizza, pan pizza and teglia, sandwich loaf, brioche, rustic sourdough — you get costing, because a formula that works but does not add up is only half a formula.
3. An engine that counts the water you forgot
Hydration in FormulaMaps is not just the water you weigh out. The engine counts the real water contained in milk, egg and butter, so an enriched dough gets an honest hydration figure instead of a flattering one. On top of that sits an AI tutor over a deterministic engine: the numbers come from fixed calculations, the explanation comes from the AI.
4. Ready for agents — and we are not the only ones thinking about it
FormulaMaps exposes a public API and a native MCP server with 9 tools, so an assistant can formulate, scale and cost a recipe directly. Credit where it is due: Pandough also publishes an AI assistants section and a Developers section, so they are clearly thinking about the same shift. Ours is simply further down that road today.
5. Made by a family that has been at this since 1947
FormulaMaps comes from Familia Llinares, in Azuaga (Spain), working since 1947. The professional ranges the engine checks your formula against come from that: generations of making the product, not only modelling it. It runs in the browser, in 5 languages.
To be fair
If pizza dough is your whole world and you care about matching your exact flour, Pandough is probably the better tool, and we would say so. Nothing in FormulaMaps replaces Farina Prima: 250+ commercial flours with their W, protein and hydration ranges, localized per market, with the calculation adapting to the flour you actually bought. Add the fermentation scheduler that works backwards from your bake time through warm and cold proving, a free core calculator, PRO at around 20 USD/year and 6 languages, and it is an easy recommendation for the dough-focused baker. FormulaMaps earns its place when dough is one craft among several, when you need costing next to the technical ranges, or when you want a public API and an MCP server so your tools and your assistants can talk to the same engine.
Test it with your own recipe
No account needed. Open the free pizza dough hydration calculator, enter a dough you already make, and read the hydration against professional ranges for that dough type — with the water in milk, egg and butter counted properly. Five minutes, no signup, and you will know whether FormulaMaps fits the way your workshop works. Then do the same in Pandough: the comparison is more useful than any table we could write.
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 FormulaMaps cheaper than Pandough?
No. Pandough has a free core calculator and a PRO tier at approximately 20 USD/year. 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 you can use without signing up. The two are priced differently because they cover different amounts of ground: one is a dough tool, the other a five-craft workshop tool with costing.
Does FormulaMaps have a flour database like Farina Prima?
No, and we will not pretend otherwise. Pandough's database of 250+ commercial flours — each with W strength, protein percentage and recommended hydration ranges, localized per market — is the best implementation of that idea we know of. FormulaMaps works the other way round: professional ranges per dough type rather than per brand, plus real-water accounting for milk, egg and butter.
Which one should I choose for pizza dough?
If pizza dough is what you do and you want the calculation adapted to the exact flour on your shelf, choose Pandough. Choose FormulaMaps if dough is one of several things you make and you also need ice cream, pastry, turrón and cacao in the same place, with costing, an AI tutor over a deterministic engine, a public API and a native MCP server.
Can I try FormulaMaps for dough without paying?
Yes. The pizza dough hydration calculator is public and needs no signup, and a free account gives you 3 saved formulas. Compare both tools with a dough you already trust before spending anything on either.
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