Comparison

ClayLab vs Emm AI

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

ClayLab

A digital diary for ceramists to meticulously document their pottery projects. Track every stage, from forming to firing, and record detailed information about glazes, clay bodies, and application techniques. Organize and retrieve your work with advanced search and backup features.

Highlights
  • Comprehensive progress tracking
  • Detailed documentation of glazes and materials
  • Advanced search and filtering
  • Data backup and import/export
  • Layering and application details logging
  • Unlimited photos per piece
Features
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Never lose track of a pottery piece again. ClayLab is a pottery journal and studio tracker designed by potters for potters. Track pieces, glazes, firings, experiments, and inventory in one place. Whether you work in a home studio or a shared community studio, ClayLab helps you stay organized, find your work, and learn from every experiment. Track every stage of your pottery journey, from wet clay to finished work. Record glazes, underglazes, slips, oxides, stains, clay bodies, forming methods, dimensions, weight, firing results, and more. Keep detailed notes and photos so you always know what worked and what didn't. ▶ Stay Organized Track pieces through every stage Record sold, gifted, traded, available, and archived pieces Organize work with custom locations Quickly find pieces in shared studios Unlimited pieces Unlimited photos ▶ Track Your Process Glazes and underglazes Clay bodies Forming methods Slips, oxides, and stains Stage tracking Status tracking Detailed notes Dimensions and weight tracking ▶ Learn From Every Experiment Compare results across pieces Search and filter by glaze, clay body, form, stage, and more Record glaze layering and application details Track dipping times Calculate shrinkage and monitor changes through firing ▶ Backup & Restore Protect your pottery records with export and import tools. Easily back up your data and move it between devices. Perfect for potters, ceramic artists, students, hobbyists, and studio members who want to keep better records, stay organized, and improve their craft. ▶ What's Included No ads Unlimited pieces Search and filtering Custom glazes Custom underglazes Custom clay bodies Custom stains Custom oxides Custom forms Custom forming methods Custom locations Dimensions tracking Weight tracking Stage tracking Status tracking Unlimited photos General note-taking ▶ ClayLab Pro Backup export Backup import Unlimited glaze layers Coat tracking Application method logging Glaze annotations Dipping time tracking Duplicate pieces (up to 20 copies) Custom stage definitions ▶ How do ClayLab Pro subscriptions work? ClayLab Pro Monthly: billed monthly ClayLab Pro Yearly: billed annually at a discounted rate Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account upon confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage subscriptions and turn off auto-renewal in your App Store account settings. www.claylabapp.com/terms www.claylabapp.com/privacy-policy

About

Emm AI

Features
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Emm AI is the collaboration center you and your AI agents use to work together. It pulls your scattered AI work — research, drafts, decisions, follow-ups — into one shared space you both build in, instead of losing it across chat sessions and tools. Your AI is powerful in the moment but forgets between sessions, can't follow standing orders, and its output vanishes when the window closes. Emm fixes the whole problem, not one symptom at a time. FOUR CAPABILITIES, ONE WORKSPACE • A wiki you co-author — not a drop-box where agents dump results, but a living document space. Your agents create documents from research, email triage, and tasks; you read, edit, and comment; your comments become instructions the agent picks up on its next run. • Standing instructions — the brief your agents read at the start of every run: what to do, how to behave, your rules. After each run the AI suggests improvements, so the brief gets sharper over time. • Durable memory — facts, decisions, and learnings that persist across every session and every AI tool. Insights from one task inform the next. You decide what's worth keeping; nothing is dumped in automatically. • Scheduled tasks — your AI checks in on its own, picks up the brief, does the work, and posts results to the wiki for you to review and redirect. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT The wiki is where the work actually happens. Comment on a document and your agent acts on it. Forward an email and it becomes a research task. This is genuine collaboration across days and weeks — not chatbot Q&A. You stay in control: agents propose, you approve, and nothing leaves Emm without your say-so. WORKS WITH EVERY AI Emm connects over MCP (Model Context Protocol). Set it up with Claude, pick it up with ChatGPT — your wiki, instructions, and memory carry across Gemini, Grok, and any MCP-compatible agent, untouched. The workspace belongs to you, not any vendor. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Encrypted in transit and at rest, stored in a European AWS data center under GDPR. View, edit, export, or delete anything — including full account deletion — from the dashboard at any time. Emm AI is built on the open ActingWeb framework. Services offered under: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://ai.actingweb.io/terms Privacy Policy: https://ai.actingweb.io/privacy

Screenshots

ClayLab4 screens
Emm AI4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Emm AI at every 5 days against ClayLab's every 2 months. Emm AI also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ClayLab sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Emm AI sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ClayLab ships an update every 2 months, Emm AI every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ClayLab versus Emm AI: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClayLabEmm AI
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (366 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews91.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings366 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLorenzo CalvaniGreger Teigre Wedel

Bugs and requests

ClayLab

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional crashes or performance issues
  • Data loss when changing devices or reinstalling

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add hand-building option alongside thrown pieces
  • Ability to track firing details (cone, atmosphere, etc.)
  • Option to create custom categories (e.g., sold, gifted)
  • Search and filter by glaze, clay, form, etc.
  • Sync data across devices (iCloud, etc.)
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  • Export data to CSV or PDF format

Emm AI

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ClayLab

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Yearly$49.991 Year
2 purchases

Emm AI

Subscriptions2
  • Emm AI Premium (monthly)$9.991 Month
  • Emm AI Premium$99.991 Year

Questions

Is ClayLab free?
ClayLab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Emm AI free?
Emm AI is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ClayLab or Emm AI have ads?
Neither ClayLab nor Emm AI shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ClayLab or Emm AI?
ClayLab ships an update every 2 months, and Emm AI every 5 days. Most recently, ClayLab was updated on October 20, 2026 and Emm AI on October 12, 2026.

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