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 sourdough starter is alive. Fermento treats it that way. Klaus — or whatever you name yours — has a face. Leave him too long and he looks hungry. Feed him and he beams. It sounds silly right up until you realise you haven't killed a starter in months. A PHOTO INSTEAD OF A GUESS Hold the jar up to the camera. Bubbie reads the bubbles, how far it climbed, the crust drying on the glass — six things a camera can genuinely judge, not ten invented ones. Then she says what it means for your…