IceForm Pro

Science of Gelato & Ice Cream

We have been making ice cream since 2015, and we still are. IceForm Pro is the app we built for our own recipes and our own batches, and we use it every day.

Before it we worked in spreadsheets, then in a run of calculators that were always missing something. Once, what was missing cost us a whole batch. What was missing then is in this app now, and it is not the only thing that got in that way: every mistake we made on the way here left a limit or a warning somewhere in here.

BALANCING A recipe is a balance of fat, sugars, solids, water, sweetness and freezing behaviour. Change an amount and every indicator moves with it. When a batch will not come into range, one button works out the amounts that will, respecting the ingredients you lock and the limits you set on each one.

• The adaptive IceForm profile: MSNF, Sugars and Total Solids ranges follow the fat level you set, while POD and PAC are balanced independently. Every limit is yours to change.
• 32 built-in profiles for specific product categories, grounded in established formulation science. Duplicate one or build your own.

GANACHE A recipe type of its own, with Aw, Brix, SFC at 20 and 28, pH, caramelisation and melting points, plastic range, shelf life, consistency, fatty-acid profile, cocoa components and formulation ratios.

WHAT YOU SEE Balance Radar, PAC and POD, MSNF, Hardening Factor, frozen water, overrun, lactose concentration, glycemic index, Coldness Perception, a scoopability gauge and a freezing curve in Celsius or Fahrenheit. Evaporation and overrun simulation shows what pasteurisation loss and aeration do to every number.

INGREDIENTS 340+ curated ingredients, import from USDA FoodData Central by name or barcode, or your own through a guided composition editor. Cost and nutrition per 100 g and per serving. A finished recipe can be used as an ingredient in another one.

FROM THE RECIPE TO THE FLOOR

• Production plans and tech cards for the batch size you actually run, kept as history.
• A label editor: composition, allergens, QUID, EU and US (FDA) nutrition panels, ready to print.
• Stock, suppliers, purchase orders, planning, traceability and analytics.
• Calculators for MSNF, PAC, overrun, Pearson square, Brix, water activity, containers and yield.

THE ASSISTANT Ask in plain words, in any language. It works your recipe through the same tools you use, and the app does every calculation. It can draft a recipe from a description, rebalance one you already have, or fill an ingredient's composition from a name or a photo of the label. Bring your own provider: Apple Intelligence on device, Google Gemini, Claude or ChatGPT. Every change is yours to keep or undo.

iPhone, iPad and Mac, with iCloud sync.

SUBSCRIPTION Balancing is free. Without a subscription you get the sample recipe, fully editable, the full read-out on anything you build, and one recipe and three ingredients of your own. Pro adds the working tool: the ingredient library, USDA and barcode import, file import and export, tech cards, the calculators and the assistant. Pro+ adds the production side: stock, orders, planning, traceability. If a subscription lapses, everything you wrote stays visible and readable. Your work is never taken away from you.

PRIVACY Your recipes are yours. They stay on your device and, if you choose, in your own iCloud. We never see them and we train nothing on them. If you connect a cloud assistant, your request goes to the provider you chose, under their terms. Apple Intelligence runs on the device.

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