Clay Boss vs GlazeBench

Clay Boss turns your pottery ideas into expert guides — instantly. Whether you're a beginner trying your first pinch pot or an experienced ceramicist exploring new glaze techniques, Clay Boss generates complete, step-by-step guides tailored to exactly what you want to make. Just take a picture of a completed piece or tell Clay Boss what you want to create — a rustic mug, a sculptural vase, a coil-built bowl — and it builds a full guide: techniques, tools, clay types, drying times, kiln temperatures, and finishing tips. KEY FEATURES • AI-generated pottery guides for any project • Covers hand-building, wheel throwing, sculpting, and more • Glaze recommendations and firing schedules • Save and revisit your guides anytime • Clean, distraction-free experience CLAY BOSS PRO — $4.99/MONTH • Unlimited guide generation • Priority AI for richer, more detailed results • Full portfolio and gallery access • Early access to new features Free users get 3 guides per month — no credit card required to start. Perfect for pottery students, hobbyists, studio potters, and anyone curious about working with clay. Subscription Details: • $4.99/month, billed monthly • Payment charged to your Apple ID at confirmation • Subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period • Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple ID account settings Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

GlazeBench is the studio notebook for potters who take glaze chemistry seriously — and now for the whole firing, from the cone you aim for to the kiln that gets you there. BUILD A RECIPE, SEE THE CHEMISTRY Add materials and set percentages. The Unity Molecular Formula — silica, alumina, the SiO₂:Al₂O₃ ratio, and your flux balance — recalculates instantly, with your recipe's position plotted on the Stull chart. CATCH PROBLEMS BEFORE THE KILN Plain-language warnings flag a glaze likely to run, an immature melt, a silica ratio headed for crazing, or ingredients that don't total 100%. SCALE TO THE GRAM Enter any batch size and read every material weight in large, high-contrast numbers you can see from across the bench. FIRING (NEW) Pick the cone and the ware and GlazeBench writes the firing program from Orton's published Cone-Fire programs and cone chart: each segment, the curve, the top hold with an on-screen timer, and a controlled cool. Log what the witness cones did — including Orton's three-cone pack, read as under, on or over — and the next program suggests the Cone Offset step. KILN CARE (NEW) Measure each element section with a multimeter now and then. GlazeBench plots the resistance rise against L&L's change mark and forecasts the firing when new elements are due, from your own checks and firing pace. Thermocouples, relays and kiln wash get their own intervals by days or firings. METAL CLAY (NEW) Silver metal clay — PMC3, PMC+, PMC Flex, PMC Sterling and Art Clay Silver — fired to the maker's published schedules, by kiln or torch where the maker allows it, sized beforehand for the shrinkage the maker lists — then, as you log firings, for the shrinkage your own kiln gives. SOURCED, VERSIONED DATA Every oxide analysis, cone temperature and schedule carries its source, visible in the app. WORKS AT THE KILN Everything ships on-device. No signal in the studio is not a problem. FREE · Build, calculate and batch any recipe · Three firing programs, two kilns and six parts, three metal-clay pieces — each with every firing logged GLAZEBENCH PRO · Live UMF chemistry and the Stull map · Every firing program, and your own segment edits · Every kiln and part, with intervals by firing count · Every metal-clay piece, and your own schedules Pro is $39.99/year with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers. A NOTE ON ACCURACY GlazeBench gives you guidance, not guarantees. Raw material analyses vary between suppliers — verify against your supplier's data sheet, leach-test glazes for food surfaces, and fire a test piece before you rely on a new program or schedule. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://glazebench-maker-suite.web.app/privacy.html