Pottery Tracker vs ClayNote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pottery Tracker
Manage your pottery projects with this app designed for artists of all levels. Streamline your creative process and enhance your pottery-making journey. Take your practice to new heights and unleash your creativity with confidence.
- Manage pottery projects
- Streamline creative process
- Enhance pottery-making
- For all skill levels
- Track ceramic art creation
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Welcome to Pottery Tracker, your ultimate companion for managing your pottery projects with ease and precision. Whether you're a seasoned ceramic artist or just starting out, Pottery Tracker is designed to streamline your pottery-making process and enhance your creative journey. Pottery Tracker is the ultimate tool for pottery enthusiasts, hobbyists, and professionals alike. Whether you're creating functional ceramics, decorative pieces, or experimental art, Pottery Tracker empowers you to take your pottery practice to new heights. Download now and unleash your creativity with confidence! https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ClayNote at 2.7 against Pottery Tracker's 2.2. ClayNote also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Pottery Tracker's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and iOS requirement (12.4 vs 18). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Pottery Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. ClayNote asks for nothing beyond the download.
ClayNote holds the better App Store score, 2.7 against 2.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 26 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Pottery Tracker's written reviews are positive against 63% of ClayNote's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pottery Tracker | ClayNote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.2 (12 ratings) | 2.7 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 62.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 18 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Danny Hernandez | Ying-Chao Tung |
Customer experience
Pottery Tracker
ClayNote
In-app purchases
Pottery Tracker
- Monthly Subscription$2.991 Month
- Pottery Tracker$5.993 Months
ClayNote
No in-app purchases







