Comparison

ClayMade vs ClayNote

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Stage Tracking
  • Flexible Configuration
  • Piece Finishes Documentation
  • Firing Details
  • Time Tracker
  • Rich Notes
  • Shrinkage Calculator
Features
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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/

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

ClayMade4 screens
ClayNote4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: ClayMade at 3.8 against ClayNote's 2.7. ClayMade also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly) and review sentiment (71% vs 63%). ClayNote's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. ClayMade sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. ClayNote asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ClayMade holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 62 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of ClayMade's written reviews are positive against 63% of ClayNote's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ClayMade ships an update every 6 days, ClayNote monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
ClayMade versus ClayNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClayMadeClayNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (62 ratings) — better2.7 (26 ratings)
Positive reviews71.0% of reviews — better62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings62 — better26
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrian CerceoYing-Chao Tung

Customer experience

ClayMade

All ratings62 ratings
Positive69.4%
Neutral1.6%
Negative29.0%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive71.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative29.0%

ClayNote

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

In-app purchases

2 purchases

ClayMade

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Plan – 1 month14 Days trial$6.991 Month
  • Pro Plan – 1 year14 Days trial$59.991 Year
None

ClayNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ClayMade free?
ClayMade is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ClayNote free?
ClayNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, ClayMade or ClayNote?
ClayMade is rated higher. ClayMade averages 3.8 out of 5 from 62 ratings, while ClayNote averages 2.7 from 26 ratings.
Do ClayMade or ClayNote have ads?
Neither ClayMade nor ClayNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ClayMade or ClayNote?
ClayMade ships an update every 6 days, and ClayNote monthly. Most recently, ClayMade was updated on September 20, 2026 and ClayNote on September 17, 2026.

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