A pottery wheel that fits in your pocket. Pull the wall up with your thumb, glaze it, fire it, and set it on the shelf.
Clay Wheel is a small ceramics studio for iPhone. Every vessel is a real 3D mesh, re-thrown as you drag — not a picture of a pot. Calipers read the height and width in centimetres while you work.
The whole app is three places. You throw at the wheel, your fired pieces line the shelf, and the journal keeps the log of everything you have made.
One piece takes about a minute. The wheel keeps turning the whole time, and every change to the profile is re-lathed into the mesh as your thumb moves.
Open the app on a fresh lump of warm stoneware, porcelain or red earthenware, already spinning on the wheel head.
Drag up or down anywhere on the wall. The ring you touch swells or narrows, its neighbours follow, and the calipers move with it.
Rib smooths the wall into a clean curve. Trim cuts a foot under the base. Undo steps back through the last forty changes.
Dip it in a glaze, pick a finish, and fire. The piece is named, logged and set on the shelf, and a fresh lump comes up.
"Centre the clay, open the floor, pull the wall. Every pot remembers the hand that made it."
From the studio settings screenThere is no timer, no score and no streak to protect. Nothing in Clay Wheel expires, and no piece can be lost by not opening the app for a week.
Not a single mesh is imported. Every vessel, wheel head and shelf board is generated in code, which is why a pot you shape can be any silhouette rather than one of a handful of presets.
Everything below ships with the app and works the moment you install it — nothing to unlock, download or subscribe to.
No. The app makes no network requests at all — there is no backend to talk to. It behaves identically in airplane mode, including the very first launch.
No. There is no sign-up, sign-in, email capture or profile anywhere in the app. You open it and you are already at the wheel.
In a Core Data store inside the app's own container on your device. Nothing is uploaded. Deleting the app deletes your shelf with it, so it cannot be recovered afterwards.
None. There is no store, no paywall and no premium tier — every glaze, tool and milestone is available from the first launch.
Yes. Settings has a haptics switch and a motion switch. With motion off, the wheel stops idling and shelf pieces stop drifting, while tap feedback still works.
Yes. "Reset the studio" in Settings clears your shelf and journal and drops you back at a fresh wheel with the glaze library intact.
Zane reads and answers every message personally. Solo project, built and maintained by one developer.
This privacy policy applies to the Clay Wheel app for mobile devices, together with any related services operated by Zane Thomas (collectively, the "Application"). Zane Thomas is hereby referred to as the "Service Provider".
The Application does not collect, log, or store any personal information when you download and use it. Registration is not required. If the Application is used with an active internet connection, technical protocol data (such as your ephemeral IP address) is transmitted to facilitate network connectivity, but this data is not retained or used for tracking.
This Application does not collect precise information about the location of your mobile device.
Since the Application does not collect any information, no data is shared with third parties.
Since the Application does not collect personal information through normal use, uninstalling it simply removes the Application from your device.
If you contact the Service Provider directly or voluntarily provide information by other means, you may request deletion of that information by contacting zanethomas83@icloud.com.
The Application is not intended for children under 13 years of age, or such higher age as required by applicable law. The Service Provider does not knowingly solicit data from children or market to them. Since the Application does not collect personal information through normal use, children's data is not at risk from use of the Application alone. If you voluntarily provide personal information through other means and are under 13 years of age, your parent or guardian must provide consent on your behalf where permitted by law.
Because the Application does not collect personal data, the risk of personal data exposure is minimal. However, no security system is completely secure. The Service Provider implements reasonable safeguards to protect systems and any data it holds.
Since the Application does not collect personal data through normal use, the risk of a data breach affecting your personal data is minimal. If a breach occurs involving any data you have voluntarily provided, the Service Provider will notify you as required by applicable law.
The Service Provider may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The Service Provider will notify you of material changes by posting the updated Privacy Policy with an effective date. Where required by law, the Service Provider will seek your consent to material changes before they take effect.
Previous versions of this Privacy Policy will be maintained and made available upon request by contacting the Service Provider at zanethomas83@icloud.com.
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This privacy policy is effective as of 2026-08-19