Comparison

PotteryNotes vs GlazeBench

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

GlazeBench

Features
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GlazeBench is the studio notebook for potters who take glaze chemistry seriously — and still want an app that gets out of the way. BUILD A RECIPE, SEE THE CHEMISTRY Add materials and set percentages. The Unity Molecular Formula — silica, alumina, the SiO₂:Al₂O₃ ratio, and your flux balance — recalculates instantly, with your recipe's position plotted on the Stull chart. No spreadsheet, no waiting. CATCH PROBLEMS BEFORE THE KILN Plain-language warnings flag the things that ruin a firing: a glaze likely to run, an immature melt, a silica ratio headed for crazing, or ingredients that simply don't total 100%. SCALE TO THE GRAM Enter any batch size and read every material weight in large, high-contrast numbers you can see from across the bench — because you're weighing with clay on your hands, not holding the phone. NEVER LOSE A FIRING Record ramp and hold segments, the cone you fired to, a result photo, and what actually happened. Tie firings to the recipe so next time you know which batch worked and why. SOURCED, VERSIONED DATA Every oxide analysis carries a source reference and a data version, visible in the app. When the database changes you can see what changed — and which version you fired with. WORKS AT THE KILN The full material library ships on-device. No signal in the studio is not a problem. FREE · Build and calculate any recipe · Save up to 3 recipes · On-device material library GLAZEBENCH PRO · Unlimited recipes and firing logs · Live UMF chemistry and the Stull map · Batch scaling and cost · Export recipe cards to PDF · Sync across your devices Pro is $39.99/year with a 7-day free trial. A NOTE ON ACCURACY GlazeBench gives you guidance, not guarantees. Raw material analyses vary between suppliers and batches — always verify against your supplier's current data sheet, and always leach-test glazes intended for food surfaces. EULA: https://glazebench-maker-suite.web.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://glazebench-maker-suite.web.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

PotteryNotes4 screens
GlazeBench4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PotteryNotes at none against GlazeBench's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. GlazeBench sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $39.99 per year. PotteryNotes asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
PotteryNotes versus GlazeBench: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPotteryNotesGlazeBench
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (97 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews67.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings97 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB26 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPacific Bipeds LLCSafak Tamses

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

GlazeBench

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

PotteryNotes

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

GlazeBench

Subscriptions1
  • GlazeBench Pro7 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is PotteryNotes free?
PotteryNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is GlazeBench free?
GlazeBench is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PotteryNotes or GlazeBench have ads?
Neither PotteryNotes nor GlazeBench shows ads.

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