Comparison

Ceramispace vs ClayNote

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

Head to head
About

Ceramispace

This app helps ceramic artists organize their creative process. It offers tools for managing glaze recipes, calculating firing schedules, tracking projects, and logging kiln maintenance. Keep your studio organized and your creative workflow optimized.

Highlights
  • Glaze recipe storage and batch calculator
  • Automatic firing schedule calculation
  • Customizable project board
  • Digitalized firing logs
  • Live firing widgets
  • Kiln maintenance tracking
  • Inventory management
Features
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It’s time to bring your ceramics studio to your fingertips! Ceramispace is an all-in-one app designed exclusively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac to help organize the creative lives of ceramic artists like you. Bring your studio with you wherever you go, and take your practice to the next level. ⁕ GLAZE RECIPE STORAGE AND BATCH SIZE CALCULATOR Adding your recipes to Ceramispace is a breeze. It takes just seconds to add your first recipe, giving you access to UMF diagrams, batch size calculators, and more. ⁕ AUTOMATICALLY CALCULATE FIRING SCHEDULES Enter details about your kiln and your firings to find out how long your firing will take, how much it will cost, and optionally set up notifications when your firings are complete. ⁕ CUSTOMIZABLE PROJECT BOARD Manage ongoing projects with ease using our customizable project board. Organize your work to suit your unique workflow and never miss a deadline. ⁕ DIGITALIZED FIRING LOGS Keep track of when you fired your kiln, and learn how your firings contribute to your power bill. Flag firings, allowing you to track kiln errors or other important details. ⁕ LIVE FIRING WIDGETS Keep track of your kiln firings directly from your device's home and lock screens using our firing widgets. ⁕ RECORD KILN MAINTENANCE Keep your kiln in top firing condition by recording when you last did maintenance on your kiln! ⁕ INVENTORY MANAGEMENT Store your pieces, raw materials, glaze batches, and more to your inventory, and know ahead of time when you’re running low. ⁕ CUSTOMIZATION OPTIONS We understand that every ceramic artist has their own way of working. That's why we've included a range of customization options to help you tailor Ceramispace to fit your needs. ⁕ SYNCHRONIZE ACROSS DEVICES Ceramispace seamlessly saves all of your data to your private cloud, so you can access them from any supported device both online and offline. ⁕ CERAMISPACE PRO Take your ceramic studio management to the next level with Ceramispace Pro! With additional features and even more customization options, Ceramispace Pro is the ultimate tool for any ceramic artist. Upgrade to Ceramispace Pro today and elevate your ceramic studio management. Privacy Policy: https://ceramispace.appdeco.ca/privacy-policy Terms of Service: https://ceramispace.appdeco.ca/terms-of-service

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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

Screenshots

Ceramispace4 screens
ClayNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ClayNote at none against Ceramispace's 6. ClayNote also leads on ratings volume (29 vs 3) and iOS requirement (18 vs 26.0). Ceramispace's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Ceramispace sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 3 months. ClayNote asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ClayNote holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ClayNote has 29 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Ceramispace's written reviews are positive against 63% of ClayNote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Ceramispace versus ClayNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCeramispaceClayNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.7 (3 ratings)2.8 (29 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews62.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings329 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.018 — better
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperApp Deco Studio Inc.Ying-Chao Tung

Customer experience

Ceramispace

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative42.9%

ClayNote

All ratings26 ratings
Positive42.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative57.7%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative37.5%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Ceramispace

Subscriptions4
  • Ceramispace Pro (Quarterly)$6.993 Months
  • Ceramispace Pro (Quarterly)$9.993 Months
  • Ceramispace Pro (Yearly)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
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  • Ceramispace Pro (Yearly)14 Days trial$34.991 Year
One-time2
  • Ceramispace Pro (Lifetime)$69.99
  • Ceramispace Pro (Lifetime)$119.99
None

ClayNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ceramispace free?
Ceramispace is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ClayNote free?
ClayNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Ceramispace or ClayNote?
ClayNote is rated higher. Ceramispace averages 2.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while ClayNote averages 2.8 from 29 ratings.
Do Ceramispace or ClayNote have ads?
Neither Ceramispace nor ClayNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ceramispace or ClayNote?
Ceramispace ships an update monthly, and ClayNote monthly. Most recently, Ceramispace was updated on October 29, 2026 and ClayNote on October 20, 2026.

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