Baking · for home sourdough bakers
Doughmi is a sourdough starter care app for home bakers who keep forgetting to feed the jar. You give your starter a name and a little dough face, pick a rhythm of every 12 hours on the counter, every 7 days in the fridge, or your own number of hours, and Doughmi reminds you when a feeding is due. The face changes with the time since the last feeding, from lively to a little droopy, and smiles again the moment you tap that you fed it. A neglected starter only ever gets droopy in the app, never dead, and one calm page helps you start again.
Feed the real jar, then tap "I fed Bubbles" on the home screen. The dough character gives a springy bounce, its face goes back to a smile, the line under it switches to lively, and the next feeding moves to 12 hours from now. An optional ratio note such as 1:1:1 with rye is saved with the feeding and filled in for you next time.
Doughmi counts from the moment you last tapped, not from a fixed alarm time. When the rhythm runs out, a notification says Bubbles is getting hungry, and it repeats on the same rhythm until you feed. Open the app and the face tells the rest: lively, then peckish, then hungry, then a little droopy.
No starter dies in Doughmi. After three full rhythms without food the face only turns a little droopy, and a "Help Bubbles bounce back" button appears. It opens one calm page that says starters are hard to kill and a few days of regular feeding can help, and Start again logs the feeding with a Fresh start badge.
Most home bakers keep a starter going with a phone alarm, a sticky note on the jar, or plain memory. A fixed alarm rings at 8 a.m. whether you fed at 7 or at 10, and a fridge starter is even easier to lose track of, because a week is long enough to forget which day the last feeding was. The alarm also says nothing about the jar itself. It rings, you swipe it away, and the starter waits.
Doughmi keeps one number for each starter: the moment you last tapped that you fed it. The reminder, the next-feeding line under the character, and the face itself are all worked out from that moment and the rhythm you chose. Feed early, feed late, skip a day; the next reminder lands one full rhythm after the feeding you actually did.
The first screen asks for three things. A name, up to 24 characters. A face, picked from three dough characters with different eyes, mouths and cheeks. And a feeding rhythm: Counter, every 12 hours; Fridge, every 7 days; or Custom hours, where you type any whole number of hours. A Remind me switch sits under the rhythm, and Meet my starter takes you straight to its home screen.
There is no sign-in, no tutorial deck and no permission wall up front. Doughmi asks to send notifications only when it schedules a reminder, and it asks for the camera or photo library only when you add a loaf.
The condition is the time since the last feeding divided by the rhythm. Under one full rhythm the starter is lively and smiling. Between one and one and a half rhythms it is peckish, from one and a half to three it is hungry, and past three rhythms it is a little droopy, with closed eyes and a small frown.
On the 12-hour counter rhythm that means peckish at 12 hours, hungry at 18 and droopy at 36. On the 7-day fridge rhythm it means peckish after 7 days, hungry after ten and a half, and droopy after 21. Because the face is computed from timestamps rather than a running timer, it is right even if the phone was off or the app stayed closed for a week.
Droopy is the floor. There is no sick state, no countdown to loss, and no tally of the days you missed.
The Records tab keeps two lists for each starter. Bread made together is a two-column grid of loaves: take a photo or choose one from your library, crop it square, add a short note if you like, and it hangs there with the others. Feedings is the running history, each entry with its date and time, the ratio note if you wrote one, and a Fresh start badge on the feedings that brought a droopy starter back.
Photos are copied into Doughmi's own storage on your phone, so a loaf stays in the log even if you later clear your camera roll. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
Doughmi is a care reminder and a log, not a baking course. It has no recipes, no feeding calculators, no proofing timers and no tips feed. It does not measure how high your starter rises; you watch the jar, and the app keeps time. There is no account, no server and no analytics SDK, and the app makes no network requests. Settings has a Delete all data button that removes every starter, feeding, photo and note and cancels pending reminders.
Doughmi is a care reminder and record-keeping app. It does not judge whether a starter is safe to bake with. If you see mold or pink discoloration, decide what to do using trusted food-safety guidance.
As often as the rhythm you pick: every 12 hours for a starter on the counter, every 7 days for one in the fridge, or any whole number of hours you type. The reminder counts from your last tap on the feed button and repeats on that rhythm until you feed again.
Nothing permanent in the app. The face bottoms out at a little droopy and stays there; it never dies or gets sick. A bounce-back button opens a short page with a Start again button that logs a fresh feeding and makes it lively again.
No. Doughmi only knows when you last fed it. It does not judge smell, color or safety. The bounce-back page carries a short note to use trusted food-safety guidance if you see mold or pink discoloration.
There is no account to create. Doughmi makes no network requests at all, so everything, reminders included, works without a connection. Starters, feedings, photos and notes stay on your phone.
Yes. The home screen has an optional ratio note above the feed button, for something like 1:1:1 or the flour you used. It is saved with that feeding, shown in the feeding history, and filled in again next time, so a routine feeding is still a single tap.
Open Settings and tap Delete all data. After a confirmation it removes every starter, feeding, bake photo and note from the phone, cancels scheduled reminders and returns you to the first setup screen.
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