Description
Pizza Nerd™ — The Dough Calculator That Teaches
Stop guessing. Start making incredible pizza at home.
Pizza Nerd is more than a calculator — it is your personal pizza coach. Every recipe comes with dynamic, science-backed instructions that adapt to your kitchen temperature, fermentation length, oven type, and yeast choice. Whether you are chasing a leoparded Neapolitan crown or a crispy Detroit corner, Pizza Nerd gets the dough right the first time.
16 AUTHENTIC PIZZA STYLES
Each style is calibrated by professional bakers — not generic templates.
- Neapolitan, Contemporary Neapolitan
- New York, New Haven, Grandma
- Detroit, Sicilian, Chicago Deep Dish, Chicago Thin
- Roman al Taglio, Pizza alla Pala
- Focaccia, California, Montreal
- Flammkuchen, Coca, Lahmacun
BAKER'S MATH, NO MATH HEADACHES
- True baker's percentages — every ingredient to the gram
- Final Dough Temperature (FDT) water-temp calculator
- Power-curve yeast model recalibrated on real PizzApp data
- Rapid preset — true 2-hour emergency pizza (1h bulk + 1h proof)
- Measurement Guide — no scale? We convert grams to teaspoons
- Total flour weight readout for fast recipe comparison
GLOBAL FLOUR DATABASE (100+ FLOURS)
- Italian Caputo, Le 5 Stagioni, Petra, Polselli, Mulino Marino
- American King Arthur, Bob's Red Mill, Central Milling
- Canadian Robin Hood, Five Roses, Anita's
- French T45/T55/T65, Spanish, German, UK, Australian
- Smart equivalents — swap flours across regions with confidence
STAGE TIMER & QUICK SETS
- Live fermentation progress with stage-by-stage guidance
- Quick Sets for one-tap dough setups (4 balls / 6 balls / party batch)
- Save and reload your favourite recipes
BAKE LOG (Plus)
Track every bake — flour, hydration, ferment time, results, photos, lessons. Build your personal pizza playbook.
COST CALCULATOR (Pro)
Running a pop-up or thinking about going pro? See the per-pie cost of flour, yeast, salt, oil, sauce, cheese, and toppings. Know your margins before you serve.
LEARN
In-app articles on hydration, autolyse, cold ferment, oven hot spots, sauce balance, dough temperature — written for nerds who want to know why, not just what.
FREE, PLUS & PRO
- Free — full calculator, all 16 styles, dynamic instructions, flour database
- Plus — Bake Log, recipe library, advanced ferment tools
- Pro — Cost Calculator and pop-up tools
Built by a pizza-obsessed home baker, refined by a community of testers around the world. No ads. No tracking. Just dough.
Nouveautés (v1.5.0)
• Fixed a water-temperature recommendation bug for long room-temp ferments (Authentic, NY direct, custom 2h+18h+ schedules). Previously suggested water that was too warm, causing some doughs to overproof.
• Bumped Room Temp and Ball Proof Temp sliders to 38°C / 100°F for tropical kitchens, summer baking, and shaping environments.
• Added a clear warning when room temperature is too high for the selected fermentation schedule (with guidance to switch to cold ferment or a cooler space).
• Ball Proof Temp now stays linked to Bulk Temp by default, with a small indicator showing whether it's linked or manually set.
• Added 2 new flours: Molino Pasini Verde Tipo 00 and Molino Pasini Ideale per Pizza Tipo 0 (both AVPN-grade Italian milling).