The kraut is on day nine and the kefir wants straining every morning. The starter runs on its own clock. barm keeps all of it straight and tells you the moment a step needs you.
barm is a timer and a teacher, and it can't see inside your jar. It tells you what to look for, and you decide.
Closed alpha on Android. Free for up to three ferments at once, with no time limit.
A fermenting kitchen runs several clocks at once and none of them agree. The kraut has a fortnight to go, the kefir wants straining every morning, and the starter needs feeding whether or not you're up. Written on paper it's a mess, and a phone timer only ever holds one of them.
barm holds all of them. Every batch gets a schedule built from its own recipe, and it tells you the moment a step actually needs you. What it won't do is decide for you. Each step says what to do and what you should be seeing by the end of it, with a photograph of that, and the judgement stays yours.
A cold kitchen genuinely takes longer, and most recipes pretend otherwise. barm takes the temperature you give it and redraws every room-temperature step around it.
Dairy, bread, vegetables and tea, each written out step by step with a photograph of what you should be seeing at the end of every one.
Every kitchen ends up with its own version of a recipe. barm lets you move a duration or a temperature and save the whole thing as yours, so the next batch starts from what worked.
There's no sign-up and no server holding your batches. Every jar, note and photograph is on the phone, and free covers three ferments at a time for as long as you want.
barm ships a dark theme and eight languages. The recipe writing is authored in each of them rather than machine-translated into them, so the Greek copy for anthotyro reads like it was written by someone who makes it.
The same kitchen, after dark.
Every step, in the light you're actually cooking in.
The shelf, after dark.
Eight languages, and the Greek is written rather than translated.
Numbers follow the language too, down to the decimal comma.
The whole app, not just the buttons.
Scroll to browse.
What needs you right now, and what can wait. The lime card is the one on the clock.
Sixteen ferments, and a photograph of what each one looks like finished.
Every step says what to do, what you should see, and shows you a picture of it.
Ingredients scale with the batch. Pick two litres and the list does the arithmetic.
See the whole plan before you commit to it.
Your kitchen, your timings. Change a step and save the whole thing as your own.
Every finished jar, with your photo and how long it has left.
Move the slider and watch a real schedule redraw for a colder room.
What actually decides how a ferment turns out.
One recipe, several routes. Yogurt from a culture, or from yesterday's spoonful.
This page doubles as barm's support page, so the camera and data questions are answered here rather than buried in a policy.
