KilnRun vs Blur!

KilnRun connects pottery studios and their members in one app. Track every piece from wet clay to finished work, get notified when your pieces are ready, and build a visual journal of your pottery journey. FOR POTTERS: - Track your pieces through every stage — making, trimming, bisque firing, glazing, glaze firing, and pickup - Get notified when your pieces move to the next stage - Browse clay and glaze catalogs to plan your next project - Build a visual journal of your finished work with photos from every stage - Use independently or connect to your studio with a join code FOR STUDIOS: - Manage piece tracking for all members — scan, tag, and move pieces through firing stages - AI-powered piece scanning identifies clay type, form, and technique from a photo - Load kilns and track which pieces are in each firing - Send pickup notifications when pieces are ready - Manage memberships, classes, and bookings - View reports on clay usage, member engagement, and studio activity GETTING STARTED: 1. Download KilnRun 2. Create an account 3. Start tracking your pieces — no studio required! 4. Want to connect to a studio? Enter their join code anytime. Studio owners: Visit kilnrun.com to set up your studio account.

Blur is a journal where your life is the exhibition. Most days blur together. Blur helps you keep the ones worth remembering, then lets you walk back through them like a visitor in your own museum. YOUR MUSEUM OPENS FULL You already have years of photographs on your phone. Blur catalogues them for you when you first open it, reads the date each one was taken, and hangs them in wings by year. Your museum has a history before you write a single word. THREE WAYS TO KEEP A DAY Write a line. Say it out loud and let Blur transcribe your words, then tidy the rambling into something clean. Or draw a small doodle with your finger, which hangs itself in your Doodles wing. BUILD YOUR MUSEUM Every memory becomes an exhibit. Place them into rooms like Best Meals, People You Love, or Summer 2026. Watch each room warm up as it fills, and see little visitors wander in to look around. WALK BACK THROUGH YOUR LIFE Browse a wing as a gallery wall, a shelf, a set of pedestals, or a scrapbook page, with the whole room on one screen and the animals wandering below. Each exhibit opens like an artifact, with a wall label giving the day, the hour, and the place. A WING FOR EVERYONE WHO MATTERS Give the people in your life a face and a name. Every entry that mentions someone hangs in their own wing, so you can walk through years of one person. Their names are taught to the microphone too, so even the tricky ones come out spelled right. COLLECT YOUR VISITORS Cats, dogs, rabbits, ducks, snails, birds and butterflies wander your halls, and 21 different breeds arrive as your museum grows. The Guest Book shows who has visited and what will bring the rest. FIND ANYTHING The Archive searches every word, person and place you have ever kept. Filter by favorites, food, trips and more. Open the calendar to write for any day in the past, so nothing is lost just because you were busy. BRING YOUR OLD JOURNAL Already keep a journal somewhere else? Import your exported file and the entries arrive dated, tagged, and placed in your museum. You can also paste in older entries one at a time. GENTLE, NEVER PUSHY Soft daily prompts ask for one small thing, never your whole day. Stamps and quiet milestones mark how far you have come. There are no streaks, no guilt, and no pressure. Blur is warm and a little playful, and never another thing to keep up with. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Blur never sends your journal anywhere. It lives on your iPhone. Lock it with Face ID, back it up to your own iCloud, and export everything whenever you want. Your memories are yours alone. Start with one small thing you noticed today. Before it blurs, keep it here.