PotteryJournal vs ClayNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Log custom pottery pieces
- Track creation details
- Organize artistic inventory
- Manage pottery projects
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Pottery Journal will help you organize and track all your custom made pieces.
ClayNote
This app assists potters and ceramicists in documenting their creative process. It allows users to record stage notes, annotate images, save inspirations from the web, and organize their work with custom tags and collections. It serves as a digital journal to refine artistic skills.
- Stage notes for each step
- Save web inspirations (Sparks)
- Annotate images for surface treatments
- Customizable studio options
- Organize pieces with collections and tags
- Quick-add notes and reminders
- Reflect on process to refine craft
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Track every pot from wet clay to the finished shelf. ClayNote helps potters and ceramicists document, track and reflect on every piece — from the first idea to the final glaze. Photograph a piece, tick off each stage as it dries, gets trimmed, bisqued and glazed, and write down what you did while you still remember it. FOLLOW EVERY PIECE Ideas, Formed, Trimmed, Bisqued, Glazed, Finished. Tick each stage as your piece gets there, and see at a glance what's drying on the shelf and what's waiting for the kiln. NOTES THAT COME BACK TO YOU Write a note at any stage — the clay body, how thin you pulled it, which shelf it sat on. Next time you make something similar, ClayNote shows you what you wrote the last time round. MAP YOUR SURFACE DECISIONS Record glazes, underglazes, slips, oxides and stamps, and mark on the photo itself exactly where each one went. YOUR WORK IS YOURS One tap saves everything — every piece, note and photo — as a spreadsheet and a folder of pictures you can keep on your computer or a cloud drive. No account, nothing locked in. SPARKS Save the shapes, glaze recipes and reels you love from Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest and YouTube, and keep them right next to your own work. ALSO • Your materials and methods, customisable to your studio • Collections and tags to organise your work your way • Search your collection by name, grouped by month • A home screen widget • Reminders to keep your journal going between sessions
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PotteryJournal at 3.8 against ClayNote's 2.7. PotteryJournal also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.2 vs 18). ClayNote's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 21 months) and review sentiment (63% vs 50%). 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PotteryJournal holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 26 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of PotteryJournal's written reviews are positive against 63% of ClayNote's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
PotteryJournal ships an update every 21 months, ClayNote monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PotteryJournal | ClayNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (9 ratings) — better | 2.7 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 — better | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Laurie Ekey | Ying-Chao Tung |
Customer experience
PotteryJournal
ClayNote
In-app purchases
PotteryJournal
No in-app purchases
ClayNote
No in-app purchases









