Comparison

PotteryNotes vs Perch Pot

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Perch Pot

Organize and track all your pottery projects with this pocket-sized app. Document glazes, stages, and techniques with photos and notes, all searchable. Customize your workflow and easily recover deleted items.

Highlights
  • Search, sort, and filter projects
  • Photo documentation for work
  • Automatic iCloud sync and backup
  • Customizable project stages and forms
  • Track glazes, clays, and techniques
  • Capture project ideas
  • Undo delete functionality
Features
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Organize your pottery work with an app that's always in your pocket. Track glazes with a tap, document what works (or doesn't) with a photo, and have it all searchable. Perch Pot helps you track everything about your pottery projects: • Search, sort, filter — Full text search for your notes, sort by what stage your project is at, or filter to a particular clay or custom tag • Photos — Pictures help you remember your work like nothing else, so they're front and center right alongside your notes • Automatic sync — Out of the box backup and syncing for all your projects privately on your iCloud account • Optimized workflows — Everything you track should be quick and painless so you can get back to making • Customize everything — What stages do you want to track your projects through? What glazes does your studio have? Customize stages, forms, clays, decorative techniques, glazes, and custom tags • Ideas — Capture project ideas like a neat decorative technique or a good glaze combo in a separate section • Undo delete — Anything you delete can be found and recovered from the recently deleted section of settings • Export your data — You shouldn't be locked into an app, so you can always export all your photos and data (and import data from elsewhere) I built the app I wanted to use for my pottery, and it's really improved how I work. Perch Pot will always be free so anyone can bring a bit more beauty into this world. Happy potting!

Screenshots

PotteryNotes4 screens
Perch Pot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Perch Pot at 4.3 against PotteryNotes's 3.8. Perch Pot also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 68%). PotteryNotes's advantage is ratings volume (81 vs 20) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Perch Pot holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 81 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of PotteryNotes's written reviews are positive against 86% of Perch Pot's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 18, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PotteryNotes versus Perch Pot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPotteryNotesPerch Pot
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (81 ratings)4.3 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews67.8% of reviews86.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings81 — better20
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPacific Bipeds LLCJeffrey Mohan

Customer experience

PotteryNotes

All ratings77 ratings
Positive76.6%
Neutral5.2%
Negative18.2%
Written reviews87 reviews
Positive67.8%
Neutral9.2%
Negative23.0%

Perch Pot

All ratings20 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.0%
Negative15.0%
Written reviews36 reviews
Positive86.1%
Neutral2.8%
Negative11.1%

In-app purchases

None

PotteryNotes

No in-app purchases

None

Perch Pot

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PotteryNotes free?
PotteryNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Perch Pot free?
Perch Pot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PotteryNotes or Perch Pot?
Perch Pot is rated higher. PotteryNotes averages 3.8 out of 5 from 81 ratings, while Perch Pot averages 4.3 from 20 ratings.
Do PotteryNotes or Perch Pot have ads?
Neither PotteryNotes nor Perch Pot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PotteryNotes or Perch Pot?
PotteryNotes ships an update every 2 months, and Perch Pot every 2 months. Most recently, PotteryNotes was updated on July 18, 2026 and Perch Pot on September 21, 2026.

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