FormulaMapsLet's start where honesty demands: PizzApp+ is excellent, and it is free. It is the veteran of pizza dough calculators — a native app for iOS and Android with a large, loyal community behind it — and if pizza is the only thing you make, it may well be the only tool you need. This page is not an attempt to talk you out of it. It exists because the question people actually ask is a different one: what do I use when the same workshop also has to balance an ice cream, price a cake and formulate a chocolate?
FormulaMaps vs. PizzApp+ at a glance
| Feature | FormulaMaps | PizzApp+ |
|---|---|---|
| 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 with ads · in-app purchases |
| Where it runs | Any browser: phone, tablet, Mac, Windows, the workshop PC — no install, no app store | Native app for iOS and Android |
| Pizza dough | Yes — baker's percentage with professional ranges for Neapolitan pizza and pan pizza/teglia | Yes — Neapolitan and Roman styles |
| Preferments | Yes — preferment as a percentage inside the baker's percentage engine | Yes — biga and poolish |
| Yeast from temperature and fermentation time | Yeast handled as a baker's percentage of flour | Yes — a mature engine that computes yeast quantity from room temperature and desired fermentation time |
| Save, compare and share recipes | Yes | Yes — save recipes, compare experiments, share dough formulas |
| Other crafts (ice cream, pastry, turrón, chocolate) | Yes — 5 crafts in one tool | Focused on pizza dough |
| Bread beyond pizza (baguette, ciabatta, sandwich loaf, brioche, sourdough) | Yes — professional ranges per dough type | Focused on pizza dough |
| Costing / escandallo | Yes | Not documented here |
| AI tutor over a deterministic engine | Yes | Not documented here |
| Public API + native MCP server | Yes | Not documented here |
| Commercial flour database | Works with your own ingredients | No commercial flour database — works with generic flour types |
| Languages | 5 (EN · ES · IT · FR · DE) | Many languages (10+) |
PizzApp+ data from its public app store listings and a February 2026 comparative review of dough calculators (retrieved 19 July 2026). Cells marked as not documented mean we could not verify them, not that the feature is absent. FormulaMaps data verified in the app itself.
The 10-second verdict
- Choose PizzApp+ if pizza is your whole world: its yeast engine by temperature and time is mature, free and battle-tested.
- Choose FormulaMaps if the same hands also make bread, ice cream, pastry or chocolate — one account, professional ranges, costing.
- Either way: run the dare below through both. Hydration is hydration.
Why consider FormulaMaps
1. The honest difference is scope, not quality
PizzApp+ is a dough calculator for pizza, built for home bakers and professionals alike, and it does that job well. FormulaMaps is a formulation program for a whole workshop: pizza and bread dough in baker's percentage, but also ice cream, pastry, turrón and chocolate. Neither is a worse version of the other — they are answering different questions. If your question is "how much yeast for 24 hours at 19 °C?", PizzApp+ answers it beautifully. If your question is "what does this week's production cost me across five crafts?", that is where FormulaMaps lives.
2. A baker's percentage engine that counts the water you forget
FormulaMaps computes hydration counting the real water contained in milk, egg and butter — not just the water you poured from the jug — along with salt, yeast, fat, sugar and preferment, all as percentages of flour. Each result is checked against professional ranges per dough type: common bread, baguette, ciabatta, Neapolitan pizza, pan pizza/teglia, sandwich loaf, brioche and rustic sourdough. So a brioche is not judged by bread's numbers, and a teglia is not judged by a Neapolitan's.
3. Costing sits next to the formula
A dough calculator tells you what to weigh. A workshop also needs to know what it costs. FormulaMaps includes costing (escandallo) alongside the formula, so the price of a dough, a cake or a tub of ice cream comes out of the same place the recipe does — no second spreadsheet, no re-typing.
4. Browser, not app store — plus an AI tutor and an API
FormulaMaps runs in any browser: phone, tablet, Mac, the lab PC. Nothing to install, no app store, no operating system to worry about. On top of the numbers there is an AI tutor sitting over a deterministic engine — the maths is calculated, not guessed, and the AI explains it — plus a public API and a native MCP server if you want your own systems or agents to talk to it. All in 5 languages.
5. Built by a family that has been making this since 1947
FormulaMaps is made by the Familia Llinares in Azuaga (Spain), working since 1947. The professional ranges the engine checks your formula against come from that background: generations of actually producing the stuff, not only modelling it.
To be fair
If all you make is pizza, PizzApp+ is a great free tool and you may not need anything else. It is long-established and widely used, it handles Neapolitan and Roman styles, it supports biga and poolish, it lets you save recipes, compare experiments and share your dough formulas, it speaks 10+ languages, and its yeast engine — quantity from room temperature and desired fermentation time — is a genuinely mature piece of work that FormulaMaps does not try to imitate. It costs nothing to install and try, and for a pizzaiolo who only ever needs dough, that is a hard combination to beat. FormulaMaps earns its place when the same workshop also has to balance an ice cream, price a cake or formulate a chocolate: one account instead of five tools.
Test it with your own recipe
You do not need an account — or an app store — to see how the engine reasons. Open the free FormulaMaps pizza dough hydration calculator in your browser, type in a dough you already trust, and read its hydration, salt and preferment as baker's percentages against professional ranges for that dough type. Five minutes, no signup, and you will know whether a whole-workshop tool is worth having alongside the app you already like.
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 free like PizzApp+?
Not in the same way. PizzApp+ is free with ads and offers in-app purchases. 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 saved formulas forever and 10 AI uses a month, plus public calculators that need no signup at all — including a pizza dough hydration calculator you can open in any browser and use straight away.
Should I switch from PizzApp+ to FormulaMaps?
If all you make is pizza, probably not. PizzApp+ is free, long-established and widely used, it covers Neapolitan and Roman styles with biga and poolish, and its yeast engine computes yeast from room temperature and desired fermentation time. FormulaMaps earns its place when the same workshop also has to balance an ice cream, price a cake or formulate a chocolate — five crafts under one account instead of five separate tools.
Does FormulaMaps work on my phone like an app?
It runs in the browser, so it opens on a phone, a tablet, a Mac or the workshop PC with nothing to install and no app store involved. PizzApp+ takes the opposite route — a native app for iOS and Android — which is the right choice if you want a dedicated icon on your phone.
Does FormulaMaps calculate yeast from temperature and fermentation time?
FormulaMaps works in baker's percentage: hydration (counting the real water in milk, egg and butter), salt, yeast, fat, sugar and preferment as percentages of flour, checked against professional ranges per dough type. A time-and-temperature yeast engine of the kind PizzApp+ is known for is that app's own strong suit, and we say so plainly.
Does either tool include a commercial flour database?
PizzApp+ does not — it works with generic flour types. FormulaMaps works with the ingredients you enter, so you describe the flour you actually buy rather than picking from a brand list.
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