PotteryNotes vs KilnLink
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PotteryNotes
Create detailed notes for your pottery and ceramic projects. Add photos, dimensions, clay types, glazes, and more. Organize and share your project records easily.
- Create detailed project notes
- Add photos and captions
- Record dimensions, clay body, glazes
- Customizable note fields
- Searchable project list
- Share notes via email, text, AirDrop
- Direct image posting to social media
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Quickly and easily create beautiful notes about your ceramic and pottery projects. Add photos, captions and descriptive data and information, and automatically add them to a searchable list. Share records between devices by email, text and AirDrop. Posting images to Facebook and other services directly from the app. Print your notes on AirPrint printers. After creating a note, add photos, dimensions, weight, clay body, firing information, surface decoration techniques, glazes and many more fields. Customize the layout of your notes by adding, deleting, rearranging and renaming fields, then save your preferred layout to be the new default layout.
KilnLink
Monitor and manage multiple kilns remotely. Check firing status and stay connected to your equipment from anywhere, ensuring peace of mind during operation.
- Connect to multiple kilns
- Check kiln firing status remotely
- Real-time monitoring
- Backend API infrastructure updates
- Password reset fix
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Stay connected to your kiln ON THE GO! KilnLink allows you to connect to multiple kilns so you can check their status as they are firing. Features of version 2.0.2: - Updated for backend API infrastructure updates - Fix for reset password problem Requires: - A Skutt KilnMaster-Touchscreen (KMT or GMT) controller - Wi-Fi connection for each kiln - Data connection for your mobile device
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PotteryNotes at 68% against KilnLink's 17%. PotteryNotes also leads on rating (3.5 vs 2.0). KilnLink's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
PotteryNotes holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 97 and 82 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of PotteryNotes's written reviews are positive against 17% of KilnLink's.
PotteryNotes ships an update every 2 months, KilnLink every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PotteryNotes | KilnLink |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (97 ratings) — better | 2.0 (82 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews — better | 17.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 97 — better | 82 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pacific Bipeds LLC | Skutt Ceramic Products, Inc. |
Customer experience
PotteryNotes
KilnLink
User reviews
PotteryNotes
From 97 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for tracking pottery
- 🎨 Customizable fields/templates
- 📸 Stores photos and notes
- 🔍 Powerful search feature
- 💡 Useful for glaze combinations
Room to improve
- 💥 Data loss after updates
- 🐛 Frequent app crashes/freezing
- 📷 Blurry main pictures
- 🚫 Cannot export notes meaningfully
- 📉 Outdated features (no sync)
KilnLink
From 82 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Basic monitoring is helpful
- 👍 Can track temperature remotely
- 👍 App details improved in recent update
- 👍 Connects and monitors firing status
- 👍 Free version is pretty good
Room to improve
- 🐛 App doesn't work
- 🐛 Connection issues
- 🐛 Poor UI and design
- 🐛 Limited functionality
- 🐛 App is frustrating
Bugs and requests
PotteryNotes
Reported bugs
16 issues- Lost all photos after update
- Lost all notes after update
- App crashes upon opening
- App freezes
- Main picture is blurry
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- Camera function not working
- Deleting a tag deletes it from other items
- Firing and created dates reset to update date
- Unable to export notes
- Cannot duplicate a note (previously)
- Editing glazes crashes app
- Sync issues between devices
- Recent items not responding
- Cannot open app after update (version 2.5.13)
- Main picture blurry
- Camera function not working (new iOS version)
Requested features
24 requests- Sync across devices (iPhone/iPad/iCloud)
- Cloud backup/storage
- Dark mode
- Separate list for ideas/inspiration
- Reorder pots/items
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- Batch sharing of files
- Archive completed pieces
- Sort by numerical order
- Sort by clay type/cone
- Edit photos within app
- Export to iPhoto for editing
- File directories/folders
- Select multiple glazes
- Select multiple clay bodies
- Add/delete glaze combinations
- Mark completed items
- Show most recently added photo as thumbnail
- Backup to Google Drive
- Android version
- Set main picture for an item
- Delete unused/incorrectly typed glazes/types
- Archive function
- PC version
- Share directly from app
KilnLink
Reported bugs
59 issues- App completely doesn't work
- Cannot see history or skip ahead
- Ridiculously complicated to connect
- Nothing works
- App forgets kiln when switching views
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- Cannot reconnect while kiln is running
- Doesn't work anymore
- Screens don't display correctly on iPad
- Dead links, endless loops
- Poor UI, ambiguous icons
- Lack of utility
- Cannot log in after update
- Cannot update password
- App works less than half the time
- Constantly have to close and reopen app
- Kiln often disappears from list
- Never remembers login info
- Never had success fully connecting
- App gets stuck at naming the kiln
- App won't link to kiln
- App stopped working
- Error when trying to reset password
- App is a basic readout of temperature, not formatted for vertical orientation
- Loses first and last digit of temp over 1000°
- Cannot get app to accept info and open
- App stinks, Skutt does not have IT support
- Often loses connection and unable to reconnect
- Don't trust app for accurate reading outside studio
- App doesn't work at all after moving kiln
- Getting same error as others
- Tried deleting app and starting over, no luck
- App gives message 'we could not get data for this kiln at this time'
- Hard to find customer support link
- App fails to work consistently
- Cannot rely on app
- Worked once, then wouldn't recognize barcode/serial number
- Won't even recognize kilns
- No help given on website
- Lost connection during fire, need to fully close app to reconnect
- App never shows kiln as connected
- Refresh button does nothing
- Kiln not connected when it's connected
- Kiln hasn't updated for a while, 'click here' does nothing
- App struggles to stay WiFi connected
- When rarely connected, kiln does not update
- App has never worked with iOS
- Kiln hasn't reported in a while, clicking refresh does nothing
- Relinking kiln didn't work
- Deleting and reinstalling app did nothing
- App login fails to connect after phone OS update
- Cost per firing inaccurate, showing without decimals
- Cannot log in after app update
- App no longer retains linked kiln info
- Must re-link kiln with serial number every time
- Temperature reading is extremely off after update
- Cannot get confirmation to work, confirmation code sent but no response
- App doesn't open, just flashes icon and closes
- App crashes immediately on iPhone
- Will not open after download
Requested features
20 requests- Upgrade to premium functionality
- Over-time displays
- Return to 'New View' functionality
- Functionality with Apple shortcuts
- Notifications for firing/cooling events
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- Ability to move to next segment remotely
- Ability to end program remotely
- Alerts for errors with sound notifications
- Sound notifications for alarms set in program
- Access to the graph of the program running
- Add users more easily
- Control over KTM to shut off remotely
- Show graph seen on controller screen
- Show estimated completion time
- Push notifications for status updates
- Accurate cost per firing calculation
- Show chart seen on KM screen
- Improve temperature reading accuracy
- Add dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
In-app purchases
PotteryNotes
No in-app purchases
KilnLink
No in-app purchases
