Pottery Master vs Contraptor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pottery Master
Experience the calming art of pottery creation on your mobile device. Shape, sculpt, and decorate unique ceramic pieces using intuitive touch controls and a variety of tools. Unleash your creativity and craft beautiful masterpieces.
- Shape and sculpt pottery
- Use tools and brushes
- Paint and decorate pieces
- Realistic pottery simulation
- Zen-like creative experience
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Become a pottery master, use your hands, the tools, brushes, paint and make the most beautiful pottery. Making this art was never so fun. Try to fit the shapes and turn them into a master piece. Feel the zen of pottery in the best pottery simulation game out there.
Contraptor
Create intricate machines to solve physics-based puzzles. Design your own challenges, share them with the community, and compete on leaderboards. Learn physics principles through hands-on tutorials.
- Build with real 2D physics
- Solve community challenges
- Design and share custom puzzles
- Climb leaderboards
- Hands-on tutorials
- Universal app for iPhone and iPad
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Contraptor is a physics playground where you build machines to solve hand-crafted puzzles. Drop in rods, wheels, pins, motors, and welds, wire up a contraption, hit Play, and let real physics decide how it works. NEW TO BUILDING? START WITH PLAY. Thirty short levels teach the whole game one trick at a time. Your first level hands you a single oval. Thirty levels later you're wiring motors, bracing with ghost rods, and threading payloads through wormholes. Every level keeps the machine you built to beat it, so you can come back and watch it run. Beat them all and you earn a Certificate of Completion with your name on it. THEN TAKE ON THE COMMUNITY. Every challenge is a puzzle: get the payload (or many payloads) to the target(s) using whatever that challenge allows. Some let you shove pieces around, some ration your parts with Twists, some bend the rules with wormholes and moving hazards. Solve it and you've earned bragging rights. Then flip it around: design your own challenge, prove it's solvable if you like, and dare everyone to crack it. • Build with real 2D physics — mass, gravity, momentum, friction, bounce, damping, and motors • 30 hand-built levels that teach every tool, plus a certificate at the top • A growing library of community challenges, with search • Design your own, prove they're solvable, and post them • Twists: cap the parts, cap the speed, or hand solvers exactly the toolbox you choose • Wormholes, slow-motion zones, and other rule-benders • Rate, follow other builders, and climb the leaderboards • Hands-on tutorials for every tool • Universal — iPhone and iPad Seeing a solution isn't the same as building one. That skill gap is the whole game. Contraptor uses your iCloud account for community features (posting, rating, following, leaderboards, usernames). You can play every level, follow the tutorials, and browse and play everything in the Community without iCloud — it's only needed to post or interact. iCloud is free. Designed by JohnCowMilk · Built in Xcode with Apple's Coding Intelligence and Claude · Physics by Box2D
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Contraptor at 100% against Pottery Master's 0%. Contraptor also leads on rating (4.0 vs 2.9) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). Pottery Master's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume and device support 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 Master sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Contraptor asks for nothing beyond the download.
Contraptor holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Pottery Master's written reviews are positive against 100% of Contraptor's.
Pottery Master ships an update every 11 months, Contraptor every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pottery Master | Contraptor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.9 (7 ratings) | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 152 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rike Games | John Coumerilh |
Customer experience
Pottery Master
Contraptor
In-app purchases
Pottery Master
- Ads free$0.99
Contraptor
No in-app purchases
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