PotteryNotes vs CritMe
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.
CritMe
This platform allows artists to share their work and receive constructive feedback from a supportive community. It focuses on detailed critiques and reputation building over simple likes, fostering genuine artistic connections and growth.
- Share artwork
- Receive personalized feedback
- Customizable rating systems
- Detailed comments
- Reputation-building badges
- Supportive artist community
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CritMe is a one-of-a-kind platform where artists share their work and give and receive thoughtful, personalized feedback in a supportive community. Unlike other apps that focus on likes or view-based engagement, CritMe emphasizes meaningful critiques through customizable rating systems, detailed comments, and reputation-building badges. Designed to celebrate human creativity, CritMe empowers artists to collaborate, grow, and refine their craft in a world increasingly influenced by AI. By fostering genuine artistic connections, CritMe ensures that the human touch in art remains vibrant and essential. Download CritMe today and become part of a movement that champions creativity and collaboration.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CritMe at 5.0 against PotteryNotes's 3.5. CritMe also leads on iOS requirement (12.4 vs 15.6). PotteryNotes's advantage is ratings volume (97 vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 4 months). 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.
CritMe 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.
PotteryNotes ships an update every 4 weeks, CritMe every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.
| Parameter | PotteryNotes | CritMe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (97 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 97 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pacific Bipeds LLC | Jim Song |
Customer experience
PotteryNotes
CritMe
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
CritMe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PotteryNotes
No in-app purchases
CritMe
No in-app purchases
