PotteryNotes vs SB Connect
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.
SB Connect
Report community issues directly to City of Santa Barbara staff. Submit service requests with photos, track their progress, and receive completion notifications. Stay updated with local news, schedules, and events.
- Submit service requests
- Attach photos to requests
- Track request status
- Receive completion notifications
- View community news
- Check event schedules
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The SB Connect app connects you directly with City of Santa Barbara staff to more efficiently resolve issues in our community. Here's how it works: 1. See something that needs to be fixed. 2. Create an account 3. Submit a service request and attach a photo 4. City Staff receive your request and fix the problem! 5. You get notified when the service request is completed. You can also check out the latest community news, schedules, and events!
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Verdict
PotteryNotes and SB Connect both sit at 3.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 68% of PotteryNotes's written reviews are positive against 0% of SB Connect's. PotteryNotes also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (81 vs 4). SB Connect's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, in-app purchases and device support 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 — 3.8 for PotteryNotes against 3.8 for SB Connect. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PotteryNotes has 81 ratings behind it against 4, 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 SB Connect's.
PotteryNotes ships an update every 2 months, SB Connect every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on July 18, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PotteryNotes | SB Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (81 ratings) — better | 3.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 81 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pacific Bipeds LLC | City of Santa Barbara (CA) |
Customer experience
PotteryNotes
SB Connect
In-app purchases
PotteryNotes
No in-app purchases
SB Connect
No in-app purchases
