Comparison

PotteryJournal vs ClayMade

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

Head to head
About

PotteryJournal

Organize and track your custom-made pottery pieces. This application helps you log details about each creation, ensuring you can easily manage your artistic inventory.

Highlights
  • Log custom pottery pieces
  • Track creation details
  • Organize artistic inventory
  • Manage pottery projects
Features
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Pottery Journal will help you organize and track all your custom made pieces.

About

ClayMade

This app helps ceramic artists meticulously track their projects from raw clay to finished piece. It allows for detailed documentation of stages, materials, firings, and even time spent, with robust organizational and search features. Pro features offer deeper insights and workflow customization.

Highlights
  • Stage Tracking
  • Flexible Configuration
  • Piece Finishes Documentation
  • Firing Details
  • Time Tracker
  • Rich Notes
  • Shrinkage Calculator
Features
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Capture every detail of your ceramic work from inspiration to completed piece. Track photos, stages, finishes, firings, and rich notes in one beautifully simple app. Sign in to sync your work across devices or keep it local on your device. FEATURES Cloud Sync – Sign in with Apple or Google to back up and access your pieces across all your devices. Stage Tracking – Capture a detailed record of each piece and its progression through your workflow. Moodboards – Collect and organize ideas and inspiration for upcoming pieces. Flexible Configuration – Customize stages, clay bodies, finishes, and more to match the way you work. Piece Quantity – Track multiple copies batch projects under a single piece. Piece Finishes – Document the surface treatments, application, areas, and notes used for each finish layer of you piece. Piece Firings – Add firing details including type, cone, atmosphere, and notes. Clay & Finished Weight – Record both starting clay weight and finished weight. Tags – Organize pieces into custom collections for easy browsing and filtering. Archive – Keep focus on active work by archiving older or completed pieces. Time Tracker – Log time spent per piece to help understand your effort and efficiency. Image Cropping - Use the crop editor to focus in on specific details or pieces within an image. Rich Notes – Format piece notes with headings, checklists, lists, and links. Check off tasks right along side of your pieces. Image Gallery – Browse all your piece photos in a full grid view. Data Backups – Your data protected. Back up and restore your data instantly any time you need to. Shrinkage Calculator – Estimate fired dimensions before or after the kiln. New Piece Workflow – Customize and reorder the steps shown when adding a new piece to match your process. Flexible Sorting – Sort by recently used, most used, or name across forms, clay bodies, tags, and more. Quick Actions – Move a piece to the next stage, add a photo, or duplicate it without leaving the list. Powerful Search – Find any piece by name, tag, clay body, stage, and more. Pull down on the home screen for instant access. Trash – Deleted pieces go to Trash first, so nothing is lost by accident. PRO FEATURES Sales – Add pieces for sale, set pricing and inventory, check out with discounts and sales tax, track transactions, and view trends sales insights. Bulk Editing – Long-press to select multiple pieces and apply actions all at once. Maker Insights – A personal dashboard showing your making trends, habits, and output over time. Sales Insights – A dashboard of revenue, best sellers, inventory sold, and trends across your completed sales. Firing Services – Add your studio or community firing pricing and estimate firing fees on each piece by weight, dimensions, shelf space, or flat rate. Cost Estimation – Estimate production cost per piece from your hourly rate, time tracked, and firing fees. Product Export – Create product CSV to import into online stores (Squarespace, Shopify, Etsy, or Big Cartel) Line Sheet – Export a customized PDF of your products to share with shops, galleries, and wholesale buyers. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

PotteryJournal2 screens
ClayMade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PotteryJournal at none against ClayMade's 2. PotteryJournal also leads on iOS requirement (12.2 vs 16.4). ClayMade's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 21 months) and review sentiment (71% vs 50%). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ClayMade sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. PotteryJournal asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for PotteryJournal against 3.8 for ClayMade. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ClayMade has 62 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of PotteryJournal's written reviews are positive against 71% of ClayMade's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PotteryJournal ships an update every 21 months, ClayMade every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on July 5, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
PotteryJournal versus ClayMade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPotteryJournalClayMade
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (9 ratings)3.8 (62 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews71.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings962 — better
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.2 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB114 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLaurie EkeyBrian Cerceo

Customer experience

PotteryJournal

All ratings9 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral11.1%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

ClayMade

All ratings62 ratings
Positive69.4%
Neutral1.6%
Negative29.0%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive71.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative29.0%

In-app purchases

None

PotteryJournal

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

ClayMade

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Plan – 1 month14 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Pro Plan – 1 year14 Days trial$59.991 Year

Questions

Is PotteryJournal free?
PotteryJournal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ClayMade free?
ClayMade is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PotteryJournal or ClayMade?
ClayMade is rated higher. PotteryJournal averages 3.8 out of 5 from 9 ratings, while ClayMade averages 3.8 from 62 ratings.
Do PotteryJournal or ClayMade have ads?
Neither PotteryJournal nor ClayMade shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PotteryJournal or ClayMade?
PotteryJournal ships an update every 21 months, and ClayMade every 6 days. Most recently, PotteryJournal was updated on July 5, 2026 and ClayMade on September 20, 2026.

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