Claybook vs GlazeBench

Claybook is the pottery app that grows with you, from your first pinch pot to your hundredth piece off the wheel. Learn ceramics with short lessons, practice with real exercises at your bench, and log every piece from wet clay to the final glaze firing. No more scattered notes, forgotten glaze combinations, or guessing how much clay you need and how much it will shrink in the kiln. LEARN POTTERY, STEP BY STEP • 140 short lessons (5–7 minutes each) across 14 units, from studio safety and wedging to centering, trimming, glazing and kiln firing • 346 quiz questions so you know what really stuck • Wheel throwing and handbuilding: pinch, coil and slab • Advanced topics: sectional throwing, raku, pit and wood firing, glaze chemistry • A quick assessment places you at the right level, from beginner to advanced PRACTICE WITH REAL EXERCISES 134 hands-on challenges for the wheel and the bench. Each one has a difficulty rating, room for notes and photos, so you can see your progress over time. LOG EVERY PIECE YOU MAKE Your pottery journal follows each piece through every stage: idea, formed, trimmed, bisqued, glazed and finished, then sold or gifted. Add photos, time spent, notes, the clay body and the glaze you used. Clone pieces, edit in bulk, and share a beautiful card of your work. STUDIO TOOLS • Clay weight estimator: pick a shape (cylinder, bowl, mug, vase and more), enter the dimensions and get the clay weight, including extra for the foot ring • Clay shrinkage calculator: convert between wet and fired sizes for your clay body • Clay library: shrinkage, firing range and density for common clays, plus your own • Glaze and surface library: keep your glazes, application notes and favorite combinations in one place LEARNING AT A STUDIO? If your ceramics studio partners with Claybook, scan the QR code on their flyer and unlock Claybook Pro as a member. WORKS OFFLINE Lessons, exercises, references and your pottery log are stored on your device. Everything works without a connection. CLOUD BACKUP AND SYNC Sign in to keep your work safe. Claybook Pro adds automatic cloud backup, so nothing is lost when you switch devices. WE'RE HERE TO HELP Questions, ideas, or something not working? Chat with the Claybook team right in the app, or join the community. Available in English, Italian and Spanish, with metric and imperial units. Download Claybook and bring structure to your pottery practice. ——— CLAYBOOK PRO SUBSCRIPTION Claybook Pro is an optional auto-renewable subscription that unlocks premium features, including cloud backup. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://claybook.studio/terms-of-service.html Privacy Policy: https://claybook.studio/privacy-policy.html

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