PotteryNotes vs Pottery Log
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.
Pottery Log
This app helps potters document their ceramic creations from start to finish. Users can add photos and notes for each stage of the pottery process, including throwing, trimming, bisquing, and glazing.
- Track pottery creation lifecycle
- Add photos for each stage
- Record notes for each stage
- Document throwing, trimming, bisquing, glazing
- Organize ceramic projects
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Pottery Log keeps track of your ceramics throughout their creation lifecycle. Add photos and notes for each stage: throwing, trimming, bisquing, and glazing.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PotteryNotes at 3.5 against Pottery Log's 3.2. PotteryNotes also leads on review sentiment (68% vs 47%) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). Pottery Log's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 3.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PotteryNotes has 97 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of PotteryNotes's written reviews are positive against 47% of Pottery Log's.
PotteryNotes ships an update every 4 weeks, Pottery Log every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PotteryNotes | Pottery Log |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (97 ratings) — better | 3.2 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews — better | 46.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 97 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pacific Bipeds LLC | Jessica Kenney |
Customer experience
PotteryNotes
Pottery Log
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
Pottery Log
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PotteryNotes
No in-app purchases
Pottery Log
No in-app purchases
