PotteryNotes vs Perch Pot
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.
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.
- 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
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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!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Perch Pot at 4.3 against PotteryNotes's 3.5. Perch Pot also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 68%). PotteryNotes's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (97 vs 20). 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.
Perch Pot holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 97 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of PotteryNotes's written reviews are positive against 86% of Perch Pot's.
PotteryNotes ships an update every 4 weeks, Perch Pot every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PotteryNotes | Perch Pot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (97 ratings) | 4.3 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews | 86.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 97 — better | 20 |
| 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, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pacific Bipeds LLC | Jeffrey Mohan |
Customer experience
PotteryNotes
Perch Pot
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
Perch Pot
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PotteryNotes
No in-app purchases
Perch Pot
No in-app purchases







