PotteryNotes vs GIBI Good Idea Bad Idea
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.
GIBI Good Idea Bad Idea
Capture your thoughts and ideas in a simple digital notebook. Organize your concepts and bring them to life.
- Idea capture
- Digital notebook
- Thought organization
- Simple interface
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Enter your ideas into the phone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: GIBI Good Idea Bad Idea at 5.0 against PotteryNotes's 3.5. GIBI Good Idea Bad Idea also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 68%). PotteryNotes's advantage is update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 22 months) and ratings volume (97 vs 1). 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.
GIBI Good Idea Bad Idea holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PotteryNotes has 97 ratings behind it against 1, 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 100% of GIBI Good Idea Bad Idea's.
PotteryNotes ships an update every 4 weeks, GIBI Good Idea Bad Idea every 22 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PotteryNotes | GIBI Good Idea Bad Idea |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (97 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 97 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 22 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pacific Bipeds LLC | Derek Hunten |
Customer experience
PotteryNotes
GIBI Good Idea Bad Idea
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
GIBI Good Idea Bad Idea
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PotteryNotes
No in-app purchases
GIBI Good Idea Bad Idea
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is PotteryNotes free?
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