ClayMade vs Fired Pottery
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/
Fired Pottery
Log every step of your pottery projects, from initial planning to final firing. Keep track of clay, glazes, and studio photos in one organized place. Features a glaze helper and a catalog of commercial glazes.
- Track pottery projects through all stages
- Log clay body and glazes used
- Organize studio photos
- Glaze helper for coat counting
- Catalog of 1500+ commercial glazes
- Optional community feed
- Offline functionality
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Track every pottery project from wet clay through glaze-fired, log the clay body and glazes you used, and keep your studio photos in one place instead of scattered across your camera roll. Each project moves through five stages — planning, greenware, bisque-fired, glazing, and glaze-fired — with separate parts for sets and series. The glaze helper counts coats as you brush them on, so you don't lose track halfway through a complex application. Browse a catalog of over 1,500 commercial glazes from major brands. Save your favorites, log your own test tiles, and see at a glance which of your past projects used a given glaze. The community feed is optional. Share finished work, see what others have made with the same materials, and skip the social part entirely if you'd rather just keep your own records. Works fully offline. Sign-in unlocks community post publishing, cloud backup, and a public profile — but the core journal works without an account. No ads, no analytics, no tracking SDKs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Fired Pottery at 5.0 against ClayMade's 3.8. Fired Pottery also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). ClayMade's advantage is ratings volume (62 vs 2) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). 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. Fired Pottery asks for nothing beyond the download.
Fired Pottery holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ClayMade has 62 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
ClayMade ships an update every 6 days, Fired Pottery every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 13, 2026.
| Parameter | ClayMade | Fired Pottery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (62 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 114 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brian Cerceo | Drew Leivan |
In-app purchases
ClayMade
- Pro Plan – 1 month14 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Pro Plan – 1 year14 Days trial$59.991 Year
Fired Pottery
No in-app purchases








