Comparison

ClayMade vs Pottr

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

Pottr

Features
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Pottr is a pottery journal for ceramic artists, hobbyists, and students. Document every piece you make — from raw clay to the final firing — with stages, technical data, photos, sketches, and reusable material libraries. Everything lives in your private iCloud. No accounts, no servers, no ads, no tracking. — STAGE TIMELINE — Track each piece through its lifecycle: To Do → Formed → Trimmed → Bisqued → Glazed → Finished. Stage dates auto-log as you advance, with editable history and auto-fill when you skip ahead. — FIRING LOGS — Record every firing with method, atmosphere, temperature or cone, and notes. Toggle between °C / °F and Orton cones with automatic conversion. — DECORATION LAYERS — Capture glazes, slips, underglazes, oxides, and stains per piece. Each layer logs surface area, application method, and coat count, and references reusable material libraries. — MATERIAL LIBRARIES — Six pre-seeded libraries — clay bodies, glazes, slips, underglazes, oxides, stains — with real-world products from Amaco, Mayco, Coyote, Spectrum, Laguna, Standard Ceramic Supply, Highwater, Scarva, Valentines, Cerama, Silica Nordic, Mason, and more. Add your own at any time. Search, favorites, and filters by manufacturer, country of origin, and firing range. — DIMENSIONS & WEIGHTS — Track height, width, depth, and weights at each stage (wet, leather hard, bisque, finished). Metric and imperial both supported, auto-detected from your device. — SHRINKAGE CALCULATOR — Calculate wet-to-fired or fired-to-wet sizes from any clay body's shrinkage percentage. Plan your forms with confidence. — SKETCHES — Draw designs with Apple Pencil or your finger. Sketch standalone or attach to a project. Multiple sketches per piece, all editable. — PHOTOS & VIDEOS — Capture or import photos and short videos per project. Configurable quality, with optional bulk recompression to free up storage. — SHARING & EXPORT — Generate a multi-page PDF report or a single image card from any project — choose what to include. Share full projects as .pottr files (a portable bundle of JSON, photos, videos, and sketches). Export material libraries as CSV. — ICLOUD SYNC — Automatic sync across iPhone and iPad via your personal iCloud. Offline-first — works with no signal and catches up when you're back online. Nothing is sent to any third party. — SEVEN LANGUAGES — Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Catalan, and Danish. Switch the app language independently of your device language. — FREE WITH OPTIONAL TIPS — Pottr is free with no ads, no subscriptions, and no tracking. If the app earns a place in your studio, you can leave a one-time tip — purely optional, never gated. Made by a hobbyist for hobbyists.

Screenshots

ClayMade4 screens
Pottr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: ClayMade at every 6 days against Pottr's monthly. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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 and Pottr sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ClayMade ships an update every 6 days, Pottr monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
ClayMade versus Pottr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClayMadePottr
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (64 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings64 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size114 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrian CerceoMarc Melgosa Segura

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
4 purchases

Pottr

One-time4
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99
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  • Generous Tip$22.99

Questions

Is ClayMade free?
ClayMade is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pottr free?
Pottr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ClayMade or Pottr have ads?
Neither ClayMade nor Pottr shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ClayMade or Pottr?
ClayMade ships an update every 6 days, and Pottr monthly. Most recently, ClayMade was updated on October 25, 2026 and Pottr on October 4, 2026.

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