Pottery Log vs MudBook
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pottery Log
Document your pottery creations from concept to completion. Log projects with photos, notes, and detailed glaze recipes. Organize your work with collections and tags, and share your creations with a global community.
- Log projects with photos and notes
- Track clay bodies, glazes, and kiln schedules
- Create and store custom glaze recipes
- Organize work with collections and tags
- Share projects to social media
- Discover and follow other makers
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Your pottery, all in one place. From your first pinch pot to your favourite glaze combination, Pottery Log helps you capture, organise and share your pottery journey. Keep photos, making notes, glaze recipes and inspiration together in a beautiful journal designed for potters. Whether you throw on the wheel, hand-build at home or create in a busy studio, give every piece a story you can return to. CAPTURE EVERY PIECE Start a project with a name and a photo, then add details as your work takes shape. • Take photos with your camera or choose them from your gallery. • Add and reorder photos to follow your piece from fresh clay to its final firing. • Record clay type, shrinkage, forming method, pattern, texture, colour and decoration. • Keep notes on handles, spouts, glazes, bisque temperatures and glaze firing temperatures. • Edit your projects as you learn, experiment and refine your process. BUILD YOUR GLAZE LIBRARY Keep favourite recipes and new experiments close to hand. • Save glaze recipes with photos and notes. • Add ingredients with quantities and units. • Record cones, temperatures and firing conditions. • Search your glazes when it’s time to plan your next finish. ORGANISE YOUR CREATIVE WORLD Spend less time looking for notes and more time making. • Group projects into collections for classes, commissions, experiments or your own studio system. • Create and rename collections, and add or remove projects as your work grows. • Search and sort your projects to revisit past pieces. • Return to recent work and discover community inspiration from your home screen. FIND YOUR POTTERY PEOPLE Connect with a community that shares your love of clay. • Explore members’ profiles and pottery projects. • Follow favourite makers and manage your following and followers. • Like pieces that inspire you and find them again in your liked projects. • Make your profile your own with a photo and a short bio. SHARE ON YOUR TERMS Keep a personal record or let your work inspire others. • Choose whether to show a project to other members. • Control the visibility of your portfolio, including whether it can be seen on the Pottery Log website. • Share public projects using a link or your device’s sharing options. • Manage your community experience with member blocking and project reporting. MAKE SOMETHING WORTH REMEMBERING The details you record today can inspire the piece you make tomorrow. Remember a clay body, revisit a glaze recipe, see how your skills have grown and celebrate the work along the way. Download Pottery Log and start telling your pottery story.
MudBook
Organize your pottery and ceramics projects from initial ideas to finished pieces. Track projects, manage glazes, log firings, and keep inventory of studio materials. Works offline to keep your creative process seamless.
- Log creative ideas and sketches
- Track projects through all stages
- Manage personal glaze library
- Record kiln firing details
- Inventory studio materials
- Works offline
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MudBook is the ideal companion for potters and ceramic artists. Whether you're throwing on the wheel, hand-building, or experimenting with new glazes, MudBook keeps your creative process organised from that first, middle of the night, inspirational idea to finished piece. LOG IDEAS Quickly and easily add ideas, make notes, upload sketches and take photos of the things that inspire your creativity. Easily convert those ideas into projects, all your thoughts and pictures will automatically transfer. TRACK YOUR PROJECTS Follow every piece through its journey, from planning and wedging through to firing and completion. Log stage notes, pick from a long list of clay bodies, techniques and attach photos at each step. Always know where each piece is in the process. Easily log material costs against each project and add the sale price to the end product. GLAZE LIBRARY Build your personal glaze library. Record commercial glazes and custom recipes, track ingredients and percentages, log test tiles with photos, and quickly find the right glaze for any project. If you create your glaze you can print your own unique QR code to track it in your work. FIRINGS LOG Record every firing with cone, temperature, kiln, and firing program. Associate firings with specific projects so you always know exactly what a piece went through. STUDIO INVENTORY Keep track of your materials: clay bodies, glaze ingredients, tools, and equipment, so you're never caught short mid-project. WORKS OFFLINE MudBook works fully offline. Everything is saved to your device first and syncs automatically when you have a connection. Your studio data is always available, even without signal. BUILT FOR POTTERS, BY POTTERS Technique-aware stage tracking supports throwing, hand-building, slab, coil, pinch, and casting workflows. The app speaks your language. --- MudBook is developed by Taylin.Studio. Questions or feedback: devsupport@taylin.studio MudBook Pro is an auto-renewing subscription: £4.99/month or £49.99/year. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase and renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or turn off auto-renewal in your Account Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pottery Log at none against MudBook's 2. MudBook's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. MudBook sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Pottery Log asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 1.0 for Pottery Log against 1.0 for MudBook. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Pottery Log ships an update every 4 months, MudBook every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pottery Log | MudBook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Simon Timothy Exton | Taylin Digital Ltd |
In-app purchases
Pottery Log
No in-app purchases
MudBook
- MudBook Pro$6.991 Month
- MudBook Pro Yearly$69.991 Year









