ClayMade vs Perch Pot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ClayMade
This app helps ceramic artists meticulously track their projects from raw clay to finished piece. It allows for detailed documentation of stages, materials, firings, and even time spent, with robust organizational and search features. Pro features offer deeper insights and workflow customization.
- Stage Tracking
- Flexible Configuration
- Piece Finishes Documentation
- Firing Details
- Time Tracker
- Rich Notes
- Shrinkage Calculator
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Capture every detail of your ceramic work from inspiration to completed piece. Track photos, stages, finishes, firings, and rich notes in one beautifully simple app. Sign in to sync your work across devices or keep it local on your device. FEATURES Cloud Sync – Sign in with Apple or Google to back up and access your pieces across all your devices. Stage Tracking – Capture a detailed record of each piece and its progression through your workflow. Moodboards – Collect and organize ideas and inspiration for upcoming pieces. Flexible Configuration – Customize stages, clay bodies, finishes, and more to match the way you work. Piece Quantity – Track multiple copies batch projects under a single piece. Piece Finishes – Document the surface treatments, application, areas, and notes used for each finish layer of you piece. Piece Firings – Add firing details including type, cone, atmosphere, and notes. Clay & Finished Weight – Record both starting clay weight and finished weight. Tags – Organize pieces into custom collections for easy browsing and filtering. Archive – Keep focus on active work by archiving older or completed pieces. Time Tracker – Log time spent per piece to help understand your effort and efficiency. Image Cropping - Use the crop editor to focus in on specific details or pieces within an image. Rich Notes – Format piece notes with headings, checklists, lists, and links. Check off tasks right along side of your pieces. Image Gallery – Browse all your piece photos in a full grid view. Data Backups – Your data protected. Back up and restore your data instantly any time you need to. Shrinkage Calculator – Estimate fired dimensions before or after the kiln. New Piece Workflow – Customize and reorder the steps shown when adding a new piece to match your process. Flexible Sorting – Sort by recently used, most used, or name across forms, clay bodies, tags, and more. Quick Actions – Move a piece to the next stage, add a photo, or duplicate it without leaving the list. Powerful Search – Find any piece by name, tag, clay body, stage, and more. Pull down on the home screen for instant access. Trash – Deleted pieces go to Trash first, so nothing is lost by accident. PRO FEATURES Sales – Add pieces for sale, set pricing and inventory, check out with discounts and sales tax, track transactions, and view trends sales insights. Bulk Editing – Long-press to select multiple pieces and apply actions all at once. Maker Insights – A personal dashboard showing your making trends, habits, and output over time. Sales Insights – A dashboard of revenue, best sellers, inventory sold, and trends across your completed sales. Firing Services – Add your studio or community firing pricing and estimate firing fees on each piece by weight, dimensions, shelf space, or flat rate. Cost Estimation – Estimate production cost per piece from your hourly rate, time tracked, and firing fees. Product Export – Create product CSV to import into online stores (Squarespace, Shopify, Etsy, or Big Cartel) Line Sheet – Export a customized PDF of your products to share with shops, galleries, and wholesale buyers. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Perch Pot
Organize and track all your pottery projects with this pocket-sized app. Document glazes, stages, and techniques with photos and notes, all searchable. Customize your workflow and easily recover deleted items.
- Search, sort, and filter projects
- Photo documentation for work
- Automatic iCloud sync and backup
- Customizable project stages and forms
- Track glazes, clays, and techniques
- Capture project ideas
- Undo delete functionality
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Organize your pottery work with an app that's always in your pocket. Track glazes with a tap, document what works (or doesn't) with a photo, and have it all searchable. Perch Pot helps you track everything about your pottery projects: • Search, sort, filter — Full text search for your notes, sort by what stage your project is at, or filter to a particular clay or custom tag • Photos — Pictures help you remember your work like nothing else, so they're front and center right alongside your notes • Automatic sync — Out of the box backup and syncing for all your projects privately on your iCloud account • Optimized workflows — Everything you track should be quick and painless so you can get back to making • Customize everything — What stages do you want to track your projects through? What glazes does your studio have? Customize stages, forms, clays, decorative techniques, glazes, and custom tags • Ideas — Capture project ideas like a neat decorative technique or a good glaze combo in a separate section • Undo delete — Anything you delete can be found and recovered from the recently deleted section of settings • Export your data — You shouldn't be locked into an app, so you can always export all your photos and data (and import data from elsewhere) I built the app I wanted to use for my pottery, and it's really improved how I work. Perch Pot will always be free so anyone can bring a bit more beauty into this world. Happy potting!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Perch Pot at 4.3 against ClayMade's 3.8. Perch Pot also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (86% vs 71%). ClayMade's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (62 vs 20). 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
Both are free to download. ClayMade sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Perch Pot asks for nothing beyond the download.
Perch Pot holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62 and 20 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of ClayMade's written reviews are positive against 86% of Perch Pot's.
ClayMade ships an update every 6 days, Perch Pot every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ClayMade | Perch Pot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (62 ratings) | 4.3 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.0% of reviews | 86.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brian Cerceo | Jeffrey Mohan |
Customer experience
ClayMade
Perch Pot
In-app purchases
ClayMade
- Pro Plan – 1 month14 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Pro Plan – 1 year14 Days trial$59.991 Year
Perch Pot
No in-app purchases






