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Glazerow: Pottery Kiln Log

Track every pot from wet clay to finished. Log kilns, glazes and shrinkage.

Glazerow: Pottery Kiln Log

What it does

WHY GLAZEROW

Most potters track their work on masking tape, in a notebook or in a camera roll of unlabeled shelf photos. Weeks later nobody remembers which glaze combination made that blue, or how big a mug must be thrown to end up the right size. Glazerow keeps all of that next to a photo of the piece.

THE STUDIO SCREEN

Four numbers at the top tell you where things stand: pieces in progress, pieces ready for a bisque firing, pieces ready for a glaze firing and pieces finished this year. Below them is a photo grid of everything you are working on. Search by name, clay or glaze, or tap a stage chip to see only greenware, only bisqued pieces, only finished work.

FIVE STAGES, ONE TAP EACH

Greenware, bone dry, bisqued, glazed, finished. Each piece shows a colour bar of how far it has come and the date it reached each stage. When a mug has dried, tap "Move to: Bone dry" and the date is recorded.

A PHOTO AT EVERY STAGE

Add up to 12 photos per piece, from the camera or the photo picker. Each photo is labelled with the stage it was taken at, so you can swipe from the freshly thrown form to the glazed result. Open any photo full screen and pinch to zoom in on crawling, pinholes or a crackle pattern.

KILN FIRINGS THAT MOVE PIECES TOGETHER

When you load the kiln, tap the kiln button, choose bisque or glaze firing, pick the cone and tick the pieces that went in. Save, and every ticked piece moves to its next stage with the firing date. Only pieces that can go into that firing are offered: greenware and bone dry for bisque, glazed pieces for the glaze firing. Each firing keeps the kiln name, atmosphere and notes, grouped by month.

GLAZE LIBRARY

Keep every glaze you use with a colour swatch, maker, surface (gloss, satin or matte), cone range and notes. On a piece, add glaze layers in the order you applied them: dip, brush, pour or spray, number of coats, inside, outside or all over. Open a glaze to see every piece that wears it.

From the running app

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How a session works

Glazerow is a pottery journal for people who make things in clay. Follow each piece from wet clay to the finished pot, take a photo at every stage, record which glazes went on it and which kiln firing it came out of. No account, no subscription, no ads.

WHY GLAZEROW Most potters track their work on masking tape, in a notebook or in a camera roll of unlabeled shelf photos. Weeks later nobody remembers which glaze combination made that blue, or how big a mug must be thrown to end up the right size. Glazerow keeps all of that next to a photo of the piece.

THE STUDIO SCREEN Four numbers at the top tell you where things stand: pieces in progress, pieces ready for a bisque firing, pieces ready for a glaze firing and pieces finished this year. Below them is a photo grid of everything you are working on. Search by name, clay or glaze, or tap a stage chip to see only greenware, only bisqued pieces, only finished work.

FIVE STAGES, ONE TAP EACH Greenware, bone dry, bisqued, glazed, finished. Each piece shows a colour bar of how far it has come and the date it reached each stage. When a mug has dried, tap "Move to: Bone dry" and the date is recorded.

Questions

Does Glazerow need an account?

No. Your pieces and photos stay on this phone. There is no sign-in and no cloud sync.

What is free?

Up to 24 of your own pieces, plus the samples. Firings, photos, glazes, clay bodies, the shrinkage calculator and CSV export are free. A one-time purchase removes the piece limit.

Can one firing move several pieces?

Yes. Tap the kiln button, choose bisque or glaze firing and the cone, tick every piece in the kiln and save. Each ticked piece moves to the next stage with the firing date.

Does it give glaze or food-safety advice?

No. Glazerow is a record book. It does not assess glaze safety, food safety or firing schedules. Follow your glaze and kiln makers.

Are there ads?

No. The app has no ads and no analytics SDKs.

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