Log a feed when you get round to it. You feed at seven and reach for your phone at noon. The feed sheet and the peak sheet both carry a time row now, so the entry keeps the hour it really happened — and that is the hour your next reminder, the peak alert and the countdown are all measured from. It defaults to now, so nothing changes if you log as you go. A late feed mends the day it belonged to. Fed yesterday and only told Fermento today? Then yesterday gets its tick. Your streak closes the gap you were trying to fill, instead of leaving it open and crediting today twice. And your jar's own curve learns the right numbers. A peak typed in five hours late used to teach Bubbie that your jar takes five hours longer than it does — it now hangs off the feed it really belongs to. Your own ratio, typed in. Not every jar runs on 1:1:1 — a sweet stiff starter at 1:1:0.5, your main jar at 1:2:1.5. Type it once in the feed sheet and it stays with that jar, with the scale steps and the peak forecast following it. And Bubbie no longer marks a stiff starter down for being stiff. Write your own discard recipes. Twenty of ours now, nine of them needing no oven at all, because discard piles up on a weekday evening. The one you actually make sits beside them, in your own words and with its own timer. And share what Bubbie saw in your crumb. The six scores and the crumb shot as one card, straight from the loaf.

Twenty-two bakes, each as a timeline. A white loaf to learn the rhythm on, a rye-and-wheat mix that forgives, and twenty more — focaccia, baguettes, ciabatta, bagels, lye pretzels, cinnamon rolls. Each one arrives with its own timers and nudges, which you then bend to your own oven. Two are free. You can finally find the crumb read. It used to live on the bake review, which only exists on bake day. Now it is on your shelf, in the Breads tab and in the loaf gallery — wherever you are already looking at bread. And Bubbie keeps what she saw. The six marks used to be on screen once and then gone. They stay with the loaf now, so she can tell you what holds you back across every loaf she has read, instead of saying the same thing six times without noticing. Fixed: on some phones, opening Fermento from a feed reminder closed it on the spot — the one tap this whole app is built around. Sorry about that.

Your jar can be older than the app. A starter somebody gave you, or one you have kept for years, used to be born the day you installed Fermento. Now you set the real day — jar screen, "This jar", Start date — and the age and the first entry in the log move with it. Bubbie reads the crumb shot you already have. Reading a crumb used to happen on bake day or not at all. Now it sits right under the photo when you write a loaf into the book: one tap, and she fills in rise and crumb for you to correct. Bubbie speaks up after two quiet days. Not three, and not only when you log something: opening the app counts as a sign of life now. Two silent days and the jar says so itself, while one feed still puts it right. Your reminders no longer run out. iOS holds 64 reminders at a time and drops the rest without a word — with a shelf full of jars those were the later ones. Every jar keeps its next reminder now; only the follow-up nudges give way. And the monthly recap banner disappears once you have actually read the story, instead of sitting on your shelf all month.

Feed a jar without opening the app. "Hey Siri, log a feed in Fermento" — done. Ask how a jar is doing and she tells you when it is next due. Both sit in Spotlight too, and there is a Control Center button for the feed, one swipe from the lock screen. Bubbie reads more of the picture. She now knows which day of the recipe a young starter is on and judges it against that instead of against a mature jar — a quiet day three is the schedule working, not a jar dying. She also sees your last five days of peaks, so she can say whether yours is climbing, holding or slipping. And when she measures a rise, it lands in the chart instead of only on screen. Two screens got tidier. The home card is bigger, with the wardrobe and the photo reading right under the main button. The jar screen reads top to bottom: what to do today, then how it is doing, then the tools, then its settings. Made for more eyes and hands. Every text scales with your Larger Text setting. VoiceOver names the buttons, reads the rise chart and the calendar, and the star ratings behave like every other rating control in iOS. Contrast and tap targets were measured and raised where they fell short. Reduce Motion stops the jars wobbling. Fahrenheit is the default in the US now. Grams stay grams — sourdough is a gram hobby wherever you bake.

Show Bubbie your jar. One photo, and she reads it: the bubbles, how far it climbed, the consistency, the colour, the crust up the glass and the shape of the dome. Six marks out of ten, and the two weakest come with what to actually do about them — a warmer corner, a smaller feed, a wipe round the rim. A cut slice works the same way. Oven spring, crumb, crust, ear, proof — and because Fermento knows the feed that raised the loaf, the crumb tells you something about your starter, not just about your bread. The part that matters: a reading changes what happens next. If your jar peaks before its feed is due, Bubbie moves the plan and reschedules the reminders. A verdict that only grades you is a party trick. She brings her own camera too, with a frame that shows you how to hold the jar — the side of the glass says more than the top does. Also new · The widget follows the jar you pick, and counts down to the next feed. You may need to add it once more after this update. · That countdown sits on the jar screen as well, right next to "fed 5 h ago". · A calmer jar screen: same tools, half the clutter. · Start a trial and you get told, on screen, exactly when the charge comes — and that cancelling keeps Plus running to the end of it. Photo readings are part of Plus. Photos are sent for the reading and never stored — not by us, not by anyone.

Most people who give up on a starter give up on day four. That is not a guess — it is written into the recipe itself, and until now the app answered that day with a list of grams. It answers with the sentence you actually need now, and with something to do: around day four there is nothing happening in the jar but there is discard on the counter, so the shelf offers you a recipe for it. Six more of those, too. Cheese straws, scallion pancakes, cookies, soft pretzels, crumpets and an onion tart base — three of them need no oven at all. Reminders no longer give up after a day. If you drop off for a while, Bubbie checks in twice more over the following week and a half, and then leaves you alone. And a streak that used to collapse over one forgotten evening now survives it: one missed day a month is forgiven. The gap is bridged, the day gets no tick it did not earn. The bake planner stops hiding while a starter is being raised — exactly when you most want to know when the first loaf becomes possible. Every screen now explains itself the first time you open it: the Log, Milestones, Breads and a jar each say what lives there, once, and then never again. Setting up is shorter and asks better questions. One jar to start with, and you name it yourself.

Now your starters have a library of breads you baked with them. Bubbie became smarter and can guide you through 3 different starter setups. He also has more recipes for your discard. Bubbie also helps you during baking now, with reminders and instructions. He reminds you for example when it's time for stretch&folds. The general feeding loop and health checks have improved as well as the UI.

Feeding is the heart of this app, so it got the work. Your jar can hold a blend now — 70 % wheat, 30 % wholegrain rye, whatever you actually feed. Tell Fermento once what the empty jar weighs and the feed sheet stops listing amounts and starts naming the number your scale should show: put the jar on, read 362 g, then 412 g, then 462 g. Done. Bubbie also says something useful before you feed: whether that ratio carries the jar to the next feed, or was too small, or more than it needs. Feeding again is one tap. The amounts from last time are already there, and one Done button logs it. The widget can log a feed itself now — tap Fed on the home screen and it lands in the app the next time you open it. New: a bake-day planner. Say when the dough goes together, and Fermento names the feed time and the ratio so the starter peaks exactly then. One plan a month is free; Plus plans every bake. Fermento learns from the rises you log, too. With Plus, the planner and the feed advice run on your jar's own peak curve instead of a rule of thumb — and you can export a bake book: every loaf with the feed that raised it. And when you add a starter you already own, it asks when you last fed it. Before, the first reminder hung off the day you installed the app instead of your rhythm.

- bugfixes and improvements