Comparison

Perch Pot vs Fired Pottery

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Perch Pot4 screens
Fired Pottery4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Fired Pottery at 5.0 against Perch Pot's 4.3. Fired Pottery also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). Perch Pot's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 2). 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

Fired Pottery holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Perch Pot has 20 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Perch Pot ships an update every 2 months, Fired Pottery every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Perch Pot versus Fired Pottery: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPerch PotFired Pottery
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (20 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJeffrey MohanDrew Leivan

In-app purchases

None

Perch Pot

No in-app purchases

None

Fired Pottery

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Perch Pot free?
Perch Pot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Fired Pottery free?
Fired Pottery is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Perch Pot or Fired Pottery?
Fired Pottery is rated higher. Perch Pot averages 4.3 out of 5 from 20 ratings, while Fired Pottery averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Perch Pot or Fired Pottery have ads?
Neither Perch Pot nor Fired Pottery shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Perch Pot or Fired Pottery?
Perch Pot ships an update every 2 months, and Fired Pottery every 3 weeks. Most recently, Perch Pot was updated on October 16, 2026 and Fired Pottery on October 13, 2026.

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