Comparison

PotteryJournal vs Perch Pot

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

Perch Pot

Organize and track all your pottery projects with this pocket-sized app. Document glazes, stages, and techniques with photos and notes, all searchable. Customize your workflow and easily recover deleted items.

Highlights
  • Search, sort, and filter projects
  • Photo documentation for work
  • Automatic iCloud sync and backup
  • Customizable project stages and forms
  • Track glazes, clays, and techniques
  • Capture project ideas
  • Undo delete functionality
Features
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Organize your pottery work with an app that's always in your pocket. Track glazes with a tap, document what works (or doesn't) with a photo, and have it all searchable. Perch Pot helps you track everything about your pottery projects: • Search, sort, filter — Full text search for your notes, sort by what stage your project is at, or filter to a particular clay or custom tag • Photos — Pictures help you remember your work like nothing else, so they're front and center right alongside your notes • Automatic sync — Out of the box backup and syncing for all your projects privately on your iCloud account • Optimized workflows — Everything you track should be quick and painless so you can get back to making • Customize everything — What stages do you want to track your projects through? What glazes does your studio have? Customize stages, forms, clays, decorative techniques, glazes, and custom tags • Ideas — Capture project ideas like a neat decorative technique or a good glaze combo in a separate section • Undo delete — Anything you delete can be found and recovered from the recently deleted section of settings • Export your data — You shouldn't be locked into an app, so you can always export all your photos and data (and import data from elsewhere) I built the app I wanted to use for my pottery, and it's really improved how I work. Perch Pot will always be free so anyone can bring a bit more beauty into this world. Happy potting!

Screenshots

PotteryJournal2 screens
Perch Pot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Perch Pot at 87% against PotteryJournal's 50%. Perch Pot also leads on rating (3.4 vs 2.9) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 21 months). PotteryJournal's advantage is iOS requirement (12.2 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Perch Pot holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 37 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of PotteryJournal's written reviews are positive against 87% of Perch Pot's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PotteryJournal ships an update every 21 months, Perch Pot every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PotteryJournal versus Perch Pot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPotteryJournalPerch Pot
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.9 (13 ratings)3.4 (37 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews86.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1337 — better
Update frequencyEvery 21 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.2 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLaurie EkeyJeffrey Mohan

Customer experience

PotteryJournal

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

Perch Pot

All ratings20 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative15.0%
Written reviews38 reviews
Positive86.8%
Neutral2.6%
Negative10.5%

In-app purchases

None

PotteryJournal

No in-app purchases

None

Perch Pot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PotteryJournal free?
PotteryJournal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Perch Pot free?
Perch Pot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PotteryJournal or Perch Pot?
Perch Pot is rated higher. PotteryJournal averages 2.9 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Perch Pot averages 3.4 from 37 ratings.
Do PotteryJournal or Perch Pot have ads?
Neither PotteryJournal nor Perch Pot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PotteryJournal or Perch Pot?
PotteryJournal ships an update every 21 months, and Perch Pot every 2 months. Most recently, PotteryJournal was updated on October 24, 2026 and Perch Pot on October 24, 2026.

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