Glue Master Helper

Glue Master Helper is a small, offline studio manual for people who like to shape things with clay in their hands. It is not a shop, not a course subscription, not a social feed - it is the four pages of a well-thumbed notebook, put on your phone so you have something to open in the workshop with your hands still tacky.

The first page is Techniques. Nine hand methods - pinch pot, coil, slab, wheel-throwing basics, wedging clay, burnishing, joining with slip and score, sgraffito, and glaze dipping - each broken into short numbered steps you can flip through with a Back and a Next button while your other hand is busy. Filter by hand-building, wheel, preparation, surface or joining when you already know what you're trying to remember. Mark a technique "tried it" when you've had a real go at it, and the studio remembers.

The second page is Blueprints. A set of proportion sketches for the forms people make over and over - a cylinder mug, a curved bowl, a bottle vase, a planter pot, a rectangular slab tray, a standing figure. Each one shows the key measurements you actually need to hold in your head while you build: wall thickness, base width, height-to-belly ratio, foot diameter. Not decoration, just numbers on paper form.

The third page is the Recipe Lab. A ratio calculator for the blends you mix by weight - a basic terracotta slip, a low-fire clear glaze, a grog-heavy stoneware body, an oxide wash. Type your batch size in grams or kilograms and it prints the amounts for every ingredient in the recipe you picked. No unit conversion in your head with wet hands.

The fourth page is the Studio Log. A short list of the pieces you have on the go, each one moving through the six stages of a real clay piece: wedging, building, drying, bisque firing, glazing, fired. Add a piece, tap Advance Stage as it makes progress, add a note about the clay body or the size, and remove it when it has cracked, warped or found a shelf.

That is the whole studio. Four pages, no login, no ads, no upsells, no cloud, no bell to ring somebody else's server. The launcher icon is a terracotta jar with a teal glaze band, because that is what the app is about.