Verkada Pass vs Pottery Pal
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Verkada Pass
This app functions as a digital keycard for accessing doors and a mobile intercom receiver. It allows users to unlock doors via Bluetooth and receive intercom calls remotely, providing enhanced security and flexibility.
- Digital keycard for door access
- Bluetooth credential unlocking
- Remote door unlocking
- Mobile intercom call receiver
- View context cameras during calls
- Seamless security
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Meet Verkada Pass—your digital keycard and mobile intercom receiver. With Verkada Pass, you can easily access doors across your organizations and take calls from anywhere. Using the Verkada Pass Bluetooth credential, users can seamlessly unlock doors and access buildings. Users with remote unlock access can also instantly unlock doors remotely and view the doors they have access to. Organizations with Verkada Intercom can route intercom calls to Verkada Pass users. Receivers can take full frame, crystal clear calls on the go and view additional context cameras to see a complete picture of incoming calls. Together with Bluetooth unlock capabilities, the Verkada Pass app provides modern credentials, enhanced call receiving flexibility and seamless security in a simple mobile application.
Pottery Pal
This app helps ceramic artists meticulously document their pottery projects, from clay and firing details to glaze recipes and progress photos. It offers features for managing multiple studios, tracking batch work, and connecting with a community of fellow potters.
- Project tracking with detailed attributes
- Glaze recipe management and layering
- Studio and material organization
- Batch work collections
- Community feed for sharing and discovery
- Data export and import
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Pottery Tracker Your all-in-one studio companion for documenting and managing your ceramic work. Whether you're a beginner learning the basics or an experienced potter running production batches, Pottery Tracker helps you stay organized from the first pull to the final firing. Track Every Piece, Every Step Create projects and capture every detail of your work: Clay body, forming method, studio, and cone temperature Weight and dimensions (with flexible units) Photos throughout the process Notes, dates, and locations at every stage Move each piece seamlessly through its lifecycle: Project → Bisque Kiln → Glazing → Firing Kiln → Complete Glaze Tracking & Recipes Build a complete glaze system tailored to your workflow: Store glaze details: brand, cone range, surface, opacity, food safety Log full recipes with materials like silica, kaolin, feldspar, and whiting Support for grams, kg, lbs, oz, and weight % (auto-converted) Apply and track multiple glaze layers per piece Automatically detect and group glaze combinations See every project that used the same layering sequence Community & Studio Feed Share your work and discover what other potters are making: Share finished pieces with glaze details, clay body, and firing info Browse a global feed of projects from potters everywhere Like, comment, and reply to posts Save posts for inspiration and reference Follow other potters and see their work in your feed Connect to your studio and see a dedicated studio feed Set your display name or post anonymously Collections for Batch Work Perfect for production runs and repeated forms: Group similar pieces into Collections Track items individually with their own photos and notes Apply glazes and move stages together or separately Instantly convert any item into its own standalone project Studio & Material Management Stay consistent across your workspace: Set up multiple studios with kiln type and firing conditions Support for oxidation, reduction, soda, raku, pit, and wood firing Get warnings if clay bodies don't match firing temperatures Manage clay bodies and glaze materials in one place Track clay costs by weight Data, Search & Backup Your data stays organized and portable: Search across all projects by name, glaze, clay, or studio Export everything (including photos) as a ZIP + CSV Import to restore your full workspace on a new device Free vs Pro Free includes: Up to 20 projects 1 studio Up to 2 glaze layers per piece 3 photos per project Full glaze library access Community feed access Pottery Pro unlocks: Unlimited projects Multiple studios Unlimited glaze layers Unlimited photos Batch collections Data export/import https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ https://potterypal.my.canva.site/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pottery Pal at 100% against Verkada Pass's 36%. Pottery Pal also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.6). Verkada Pass's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (83 vs 6). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Pottery Pal sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Verkada Pass asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pottery Pal holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Verkada Pass has 83 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Verkada Pass's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pottery Pal's.
Verkada Pass ships an update every 10 days, Pottery Pal every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 9, 2026.
| Parameter | Verkada Pass | Pottery Pal |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (83 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 36.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 83 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 148 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Verkada Inc. | JOSEPH SAMUEL GRZYB |
Customer experience
Verkada Pass
Pottery Pal
In-app purchases
Verkada Pass
No in-app purchases
Pottery Pal
- Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Lifetime Membership$24.99








