Lelya Vlasenko, Middle QA Engineer, released BreadLog — an iOS application for bakers. A feature of the project: the author has no technical education in development and wrote the application independently using AI tools.
Lelya Vlasenko, Middle QA Engineer, released BreadLog — an iOS application for bakers. A feature of the project: the author has no technical education in development and wrote the application independently using AI tools.
BreadLog is aimed at home baking enthusiasts, especially sourdough. In the app, you can save recipes with ingredients and step-by-step instructions, use a built-in dough hydration calculator, run multiple timers simultaneously for different stages of baking, and keep a sourdough diary to track feeding and know when your starter is ready to go. All data is stored locally on your device, without accounts or ads.
The app is written in SwiftUI and SwiftData. A week after the release, the team has already released three updates — they fixed the timers, improved the accuracy, and added the ability to start the timer directly from a recipe.
Vlasenko notes that QA thinking turned out to be an unexpected advantage in development: she immediately thought about edge cases, user flows, and error scenarios. The AI tools did not write code for her, but helped her figure out architectural solutions.
BreadLog is available for free in the App Store for iPhones with iOS 17 .
