Comparison

PotteryNotes vs ClayNote

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

ClayNote

This app assists potters and ceramicists in documenting their creative process. It allows users to record stage notes, annotate images, save inspirations from the web, and organize their work with custom tags and collections. It serves as a digital journal to refine artistic skills.

Highlights
  • Stage notes for each step
  • Save web inspirations (Sparks)
  • Annotate images for surface treatments
  • Customizable studio options
  • Organize pieces with collections and tags
  • Quick-add notes and reminders
  • Reflect on process to refine craft
Features
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Track every pot from wet clay to the finished shelf. ClayNote helps potters and ceramicists document, track and reflect on every piece — from the first idea to the final glaze. Photograph a piece, tick off each stage as it dries, gets trimmed, bisqued and glazed, and write down what you did while you still remember it. FOLLOW EVERY PIECE Ideas, Formed, Trimmed, Bisqued, Glazed, Finished. Tick each stage as your piece gets there, and see at a glance what's drying on the shelf and what's waiting for the kiln. NOTES THAT COME BACK TO YOU Write a note at any stage — the clay body, how thin you pulled it, which shelf it sat on. Next time you make something similar, ClayNote shows you what you wrote the last time round. MAP YOUR SURFACE DECISIONS Record glazes, underglazes, slips, oxides and stamps, and mark on the photo itself exactly where each one went. YOUR WORK IS YOURS One tap saves everything — every piece, note and photo — as a spreadsheet and a folder of pictures you can keep on your computer or a cloud drive. No account, nothing locked in. SPARKS Save the shapes, glaze recipes and reels you love from Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest and YouTube, and keep them right next to your own work. ALSO • Your materials and methods, customisable to your studio • Collections and tags to organise your work your way • Search your collection by name, grouped by month • A home screen widget • Reminders to keep your journal going between sessions

Screenshots

PotteryNotes4 screens
ClayNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: PotteryNotes at 3.5 against ClayNote's 2.7. PotteryNotes also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (97 vs 26). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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

PotteryNotes holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 97 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of PotteryNotes's written reviews are positive against 63% of ClayNote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PotteryNotes ships an update every 4 weeks, ClayNote monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
PotteryNotes versus ClayNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPotteryNotesClayNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (97 ratings) — better2.7 (26 ratings)
Positive reviews67.8% of reviews — better62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings97 — better26
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPacific Bipeds LLCYing-Chao Tung

Customer experience

PotteryNotes

All ratings97 ratings
Positive63.9%
Neutral7.2%
Negative28.9%
Written reviews87 reviews
Positive67.8%
Neutral9.2%
Negative23.0%

ClayNote

All ratings26 ratings
Positive42.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative57.7%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative37.5%

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

ClayNote

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PotteryNotes

No in-app purchases

None

ClayNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is PotteryNotes free?
PotteryNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ClayNote free?
ClayNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, PotteryNotes or ClayNote?
PotteryNotes is rated higher. PotteryNotes averages 3.5 out of 5 from 97 ratings, while ClayNote averages 2.7 from 26 ratings.
Do PotteryNotes or ClayNote have ads?
Neither PotteryNotes nor ClayNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PotteryNotes or ClayNote?
PotteryNotes ships an update every 4 weeks, and ClayNote monthly. Most recently, PotteryNotes was updated on October 7, 2026 and ClayNote on October 8, 2026.

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