Kilnshrink

Pottery shrinkage calculator

$3.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Now with Batch Board and Studio Reference Pack: plan repeatable thrown sets, clay reserve, shelf footprint, tolerance bands, and offline studio sheets. Kilnshrink is a pottery shrinkage and studio planning utility for ceramicists, pottery students, and teachers. Clay changes size during drying and firing; Kilnshrink helps you plan the wet dimensions, fired dimensions, capacity, clay weight, and batch notes before the work reaches the kiln. Core tools: - Reverse shrinkage: enter a finished target size and get the wet size to throw. - Forward shrinkage: enter a wet size and estimate the fired size. - Batch Board: plan repeatable sets with count, clay body, finished target, wet dimensions, tolerance band, clay reserve, shelf footprint, rough capacity, and copyable production notes. - Volume Calculator: estimate fired capacity for mugs, bowls, cylinders, and rounded bowls in fl oz and mL. - Test Bar: calculate measured shrinkage from fired test bars, including optional two-stage dry/fire shrinkage. - Studio hub: cone reference, glaze recipe scaling, firing schedules, clay weight guide, and offline Studio Reference Pack. - Clay library: built-in studio clay presets plus custom clay bodies. - History: save local project calculations and notes. - Unit support: inches with pottery-friendly fractions, plus centimeters. Everything runs on device. Kilnshrink does not require an account, network connection, camera, microphone, location, contacts, or notifications. Saved projects, custom clay bodies, recipes, schedules, and preferences stay in local storage.

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Version 2.1 adds Batch Board, a production planning tool for repeatable thrown sets. It calculates wet dimensions, clay reserve, shelf footprint, tolerance bands, rough capacity, readiness score, and copyable batch notes. This release also adds a bundled Studio Reference Pack with ten offline sheets for shrinkage workflow, test bars, batch planning, capacity math, cones, glaze specific gravity, clay weights, firing schedules, inch fractions, and studio checklists.

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    Seller
    • Robert Corbin
    Size
    • 32.6 MB
    Category
    • Utilities
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    • © 2026 Robert Corbin