Comparison

Cleary vs ClayNote

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cleary

Stay connected and informed with this employee experience platform. Access company announcements, employee directories, resources, and recognition tools. Submit questions for company events and search across integrated applications.

Highlights
  • Internal communications
  • Employee directory with org chart
  • Company resource access
  • Employee recognition and celebrations
  • Event Q&A submission
  • Cross-platform search
Features
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Cleary is the employee experience platform for high-performing teams. Use the mobile app when you’re on-the-go to stay connected and informed. - Internal Communications: Never miss an announcement or team update. - Employee Directory: Answer “Who’s Who?” with a dynamic org chart, robust employee profiles, and team pages. - Company Resources: Looking for your PTO policy? Benefits information? Find it in Cleary. - Recognition and Celebrations: Send a colleague a shoutout or sign their birthday card. - Events: Submit your questions for the upcoming company all-hands meeting. - Search: Search across the platform and integrated applications.

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

Cleary4 screens
ClayNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Cleary at 5.0 against ClayNote's 2.7. Cleary also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and device support (3 vs 1). ClayNote's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (26 vs 4). 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

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

Cleary holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ClayNote has 26 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Cleary's written reviews are positive against 63% of ClayNote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cleary ships an update every 2 months, ClayNote monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Cleary versus ClayNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClearyClayNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better2.7 (26 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings426 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.4 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size34 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCleary Technologies, Inc.Ying-Chao Tung

Customer experience

Cleary

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ClayNote

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

In-app purchases

None

Cleary

No in-app purchases

None

ClayNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cleary free?
Cleary 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, Cleary or ClayNote?
Cleary is rated higher. Cleary averages 5.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while ClayNote averages 2.7 from 26 ratings.
Do Cleary or ClayNote have ads?
Neither Cleary nor ClayNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cleary or ClayNote?
Cleary ships an update every 2 months, and ClayNote monthly. Most recently, Cleary was updated on June 10, 2026 and ClayNote on September 26, 2026.

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