UNDERSTAND YOUR DOUGH. MAKE BETTER PIZZA.
Pizza Nerd is more than a dough calculator. It combines pizza-style logic, flour selection, fermentation planning, recipe guidance, timers, and education so you can understand your dough and make more consistent pizza at home.
THE PIZZA DOUGH CALCULATOR THAT TEACHES
Pizza Nerd does more than give you ingredient numbers. It helps explain what your dough needs, how your choices affect the recipe, and how to plan the process around your flour, schedule, temperature, and oven.
20 PIZZA STYLES
Choose from 20 pizza styles with guidance built around the style you actually want to make.
From Neapolitan and New York to Detroit, pan pizza, Roman styles, and more, Pizza Nerd adjusts the recipe around the selected style instead of using one generic dough template.
GLOBAL FLOUR DATABASE — 200+ FLOURS
Find the flour you actually use.
Pizza Nerd includes more than 200 flours from major brands and regions, with flour-specific information that helps connect flour choice to hydration, fermentation, and dough handling.
DYNAMIC RECIPE GUIDANCE
Pizza Nerd adapts instructions to the choices and conditions that matter:
• Pizza style
• Flour
• Yeast type
• Hydration
• Fermentation schedule
• Room and fridge temperatures
• Oven type and bake temperature
• Dough ball size and quantity
The goal is not just to give you numbers, but to help explain what to do and why.
FERMENTATION PLANNING
Build recipes around your available time instead of forcing your day around a fixed recipe.
Pizza Nerd helps organize room-temperature and cold fermentation, bulk fermentation, ball proofing, and bake timing into a clear workflow.
TIMERS + NATIVE NOTIFICATIONS
Use stage timers to stay on track throughout the dough process.
Native notifications can alert you when a timed stage is complete, even when the app is in the background or your phone is locked.
FREE TO USE
The free Pizza Nerd experience includes:
• Full dough calculator
• All pizza styles
• Direct-dough recipes
• Step-by-step recipe guidance
• Timers and notifications
• Up to 5 saved recipes
• Practical measurement guidance
• Estimated recipe cost
• Learn library
• Light and dark themes
PIZZA NERD PRO
Unlock advanced tools for deeper control over fermentation, flour, planning, and repeatability.
Pro includes:
• Master Preferments — Poolish, Biga & Tiga
• Custom Flour Blending — combine up to 3 flours
• Unlimited Saved Recipes
• Bake History & Analysis
• Plan Ahead scheduling
• Detailed Cost Analysis
Pizza Nerd Pro is available as a one-time purchase, not a subscription.
BUILT FOR PIZZA MAKERS WHO WANT TO UNDERSTAND THEIR DOUGH
Whether you are making your first serious Neapolitan dough or experimenting with preferments and flour blends, Pizza Nerd brings the calculation, planning, and learning together in one place.
NO ADS
Just pizza, dough, and better tools for making both.
Built by a pizza-obsessed baker, refined with pizza makers worldwide.