PotteryNotes vs Blazed
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.
Blazed
This app simplifies kiln logging for potters, offering accurate tracking of firing progress and collaborative features. Visualize temperature and cone movements with graphs and compare past firings. Supports both electric and gas kilns, manual and computer-controlled.
- Kiln setup and management
- Electric and gas kiln support
- Track cone packs and sensors
- Visualize firing progress with graphs
- Collaborative firing logs
- Compare previous firings
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Welcome to Blazed. Say hello to your new firing companion. - Blazed makes kiln logs easy, accurate, and collaborative. • • • Kilns: • Your firings start with your kiln. Setup your kiln once, and you’re always ready to fire. • Don’t use a gas kiln? No problem! Blazed supports electric kilns. Both manual and computer controlled. • • • • • • • • Firings: • Select your kiln, and you’re ready to blaze. • Track your Cone Packs, Thermocouples, Gauges, Burners, Dampers, and Ports • Easy to use! We’ve setup kiln logging to reflect what you see. • Visualize your firing with graphs. We’ve plotted your temperature readings and cone movements so you can see how your firing is progressing. You can even compare previous firings. • Firing with friends? With Blazed, you can collaborate on the firing. Take a log from your device, and everyone will see the kilns progress • • • • • And more… Let’s Blazed. Privacy Policy: https://blazed.app/#privacypolicy Terms And Conditions: https://blazed.app/#termsandconditions
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Verdict
PotteryNotes and Blazed both sit at 3.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 68% of PotteryNotes's written reviews are positive against 0% of Blazed's. PotteryNotes also leads on ratings volume (97 vs 6) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26). On price, rating, 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.5 for PotteryNotes against 3.7 for Blazed. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PotteryNotes has 97 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of PotteryNotes's written reviews are positive against 0% of Blazed's.
PotteryNotes ships an update every 4 weeks, Blazed every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PotteryNotes | Blazed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (97 ratings) | 3.7 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 97 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 147 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pacific Bipeds LLC | Stoned Studio LLC |
Customer experience
PotteryNotes
Blazed
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
Blazed
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PotteryNotes
No in-app purchases
Blazed
No in-app purchases







