CharcuterieLog
Track every batch
A dedicated log for home charcuterie. Weight-loss %, photos, temperature, humidity — all in one place, offline, yours.
How It Works
Start a batch
Name it, weigh the green meat, set your target weight-loss percentage and your target temperature and humidity range.
Log as you go
Weigh every few days. Add a photo. Enter your hygrometer readings. The chart plots your weight-loss curve against your target line.
Play it back
Watch your batch progress as a stop-motion photo timeline. Export a multi-page PDF or a shareable GIF.
CharcuterieLog in Action
Your batches at a glance
Weight-loss % chart with your target line
Live loss-% preview as you type
Temp + humidity log over time
Stop-motion photo timeline
Multi-page PDF batch report
Built for the home-curing hobby
Weight-Loss Chart
Every weigh-in plots on a smooth line chart with your target percentage as a dashed horizontal overlay. Watch your batch tick down toward your goal across weeks of drying.
Environment Log
Temperature and humidity readings from your hygrometer plotted over time as a dual-line chart. Set your target ranges; the app flags out-of-range entries with a neutral warning.
Stop-Motion Photo Timeline
Add a photo each weigh-in. Tap play and scrub through your batch's slow transformation. Each photo is tagged with date and weight-loss percentage at capture.
PDF Batch Report
Multi-page PDF with cover page, weight log table, weight-loss chart, environment log, temp and humidity chart, photo gallery, and your notes. Cover and every page carry a clear disclaimer.
Batch Comparison
Overlay up to five weight-loss curves on a single chart. Compare a soppressata that dried evenly with one that case-hardened — refine your chamber technique batch by batch.
Per-Batch Reminders
Pick a weigh-in cadence per batch — every few days, weekly, every two weeks, or off. Notifications fire on schedule and reset whenever you log a weigh-in.
Cloud Backup
Opt-in encrypted backup to Firebase Storage. Anonymous user ID, no account creation. Your manifest plus photos restore on a new device after you sign in to the same Google account.
Eleven Languages
English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese. Native review for the non-English baselines lands shortly after launch.
Pick the plan that fits your batches
Subscription, yearly, or one-time. Same Pro features either way.
Pro Monthly
per month — cancel anytime
- Unlimited batches
- Unlimited photos & logs
- PDF batch report
- GIF timeline export
- Batch comparison
- Cloud backup
- Ad-free
Pro Yearly
per year
- Everything in Monthly
- Two months saved vs monthly
- Unlimited batches
- PDF + GIF export
- Cloud backup
- Ad-free
Pro Lifetime
One-time purchase
- Everything in Monthly, forever
- Unlimited batches
- PDF + GIF export
- Batch comparison
- Cloud backup
- Ad-free
- No renewals
14 days of full Pro on first install. No card required. Try unlimited batches, PDF export, GIF timeline, batch comparison, and cloud backup before deciding which plan fits.
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Does CharcuterieLog give food-safety advice?
No. CharcuterieLog records what you log. It does not give food-safety advice. We deliberately do not calculate cure-salt ratios, recommend nitrate percentages, or tell you when your batch is 'safe to eat'. Always follow USDA, FDA, your local food-safety authority, or trusted practitioners like Stanley Marianski's books, Michael Ruhlman's Charcuterie, and the Two Guys & A Cooler channel.
How does the weight-loss chart work?
You enter the green weight when you start the batch. Every time you weigh the meat, the app calculates the loss percentage from the green weight and plots it on the chart. Set your own target percentage (35%, 38%, whatever your recipe calls for) and the chart shows your line so you can see your progress at a glance.
Can I track temperature and humidity?
Yes. Each batch has an environment log where you enter temperature and humidity readings from your hygrometer. The app plots both as a dual-line chart over time. Set your target temp and humidity ranges per batch; the app flags entries that fall outside your range, with a neutral warning that explicitly says 'you set this, not a safety threshold.'
How does the photo timeline work?
Add a photo every few days when you weigh. Each photo is tagged with the date and the weight-loss percentage at that moment. Tap play in the timeline view and the app scrubs through your photos as a stop-motion progression — the visual record of a salami slowly losing 35% of its weight over six weeks.
What's the difference between Free and Pro?
Free covers one active batch, 10 photos, and 30 weight entries — enough to track your first salami start-to-finish. Pro (any tier) unlocks unlimited batches, unlimited photos and logs, multi-page PDF batch reports, batch comparison overlay charts, cloud backup, GIF timeline export, and no ads.
Why a monthly subscription on a logging app?
Because a charcuterie batch takes four to twelve weeks. Serious home curers have two to six batches running at any time and accumulate years of weight curves and photo timelines that they don't want to lose. Cloud backup keeps that data safe across phones. If you'd rather not subscribe, the $19.99 lifetime tier unlocks everything once and never charges again.
Does it work offline?
Yes. The app is offline-first. Every batch, weight log, environment log, photo, and note is stored on your device in an encrypted local database. Cloud backup is opt-in and runs only when you tap Backup in Settings.
What languages does it support?
English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and Simplified Chinese. v1 ships with native English and machine-translated baselines for the other ten; native review is queued for v1.1 within fourteen days of launch.
Stop juggling spreadsheets
Download CharcuterieLog and log your next batch.
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A dedicated log for home charcuterie
If you cure salami, coppa, pancetta, bresaola, lonzino, or any other dry-cured meat at home, you already know the rhythm: green weight on day one, weigh every few days, watch the chamber temperature, photograph the bloom, and hope that six to twelve weeks later you land in the 30-to-40 percent weight-loss window your recipe calls for. Most home curers track all of this in a notebook, a phone camera roll, and a Google Sheet that nobody quite remembers to open. CharcuterieLog is the dedicated batch log that holds all of it together.
Weight-loss percentage, the central number
The weight-loss chart is the heart of the app. Enter the green weight when you start the batch and every weigh-in after that — the app calculates the percentage automatically, plots a smooth curve against days curing, and overlays your target percentage as a dashed horizontal line. When the curve crosses the line, you see it at a glance. The chart never tells you the batch is finished; that judgment stays with you and your recipe.
Environment that you control, not a recipe we shipped
Every batch has its own target temperature and humidity range that you set. Log readings from your hygrometer as often as you want; the app plots a dual-line chart of both over time and flags any reading that falls outside your range. The flag is neutral — never a danger warning — because the app does not assess food safety. We do not bundle approved temperature ranges or curing-salt percentages. Your recipe is your decision; the app just tracks what you tell it.
Photo timeline that becomes a stop-motion progression
The photo timeline is the share moment. Add a photo each weigh-in and tap play — the app scrubs through every photo as a stop-motion sequence, each frame tagged with the date and weight-loss percentage at that moment. A six-week dry cure compressed into ten seconds of visible transformation. Pro users can export the timeline as an animated GIF to share on Instagram, Reddit, or charcuterie forums.
Multi-page PDF batch report
When the batch is done — by your judgment, not ours — export a multi-page PDF that includes the cover page with batch metadata, the full weight log with percentages, the weight-loss chart, the environment log with temperatures and humidity, the temp + humidity chart, the photo gallery, and your recipe notes. The cover page and every page footer carry a clear disclaimer: this is a personal log of user-entered data, not a food-safety certification. Useful as a personal record, a club entry, or to email a mentor.
Cloud backup that respects anonymity
The Pro tier includes opt-in cloud backup to Firebase Storage under an anonymous Firebase Auth user ID. No account creation. No email collection. Your batch manifest is uploaded as JSON; your photos go up as separate JPGs in a folder keyed to your anonymous UID. Restore on a new device by signing back in to the same Google account. Documented limitation: clearing app data resets your anonymous UID and orphans your previous backup. We say it plainly in onboarding so you can decide.
Why CharcuterieLog does not give food-safety advice
Home charcuterie sits in a regulated, risk-aware space. Calculate the cure-salt ratio wrong and the batch is dangerous. Recommend a temperature range without context and a beginner trusts the app instead of their senses. We deliberately built the app to record, never to advise. You enter your own salt percentage, your own cure number, your own target weight loss, your own temperature ranges. The app tracks the data and gives it back to you as charts and a PDF. The judgment stays with you, your recipe, your trusted sources — USDA, FDA, Stanley Marianski's books, Michael Ruhlman's Charcuterie, and practitioners like Eric at Two Guys & A Cooler.
For who, exactly
CharcuterieLog is built for home charcuterie hobbyists with a dedicated curing chamber, a repurposed mini-fridge, or a basement cave. For sausage makers tracking dry-cured salami across weeks of drying. For whole-muscle curers logging coppa, bresaola, lonzino, and pancetta. For anyone who reads r/Charcuterie, watches Two Guys & A Cooler, follows wedlinydomowe.pl, and finally wants a phone-shaped place to keep all of it.