Kiln controller apps, and what each one keeps
Most electric kilns sold today have a controller that talks to a phone. The apps are good at the thing they were built for: the kiln is at 1043 °C, it is on segment 4, it will be done at half past eight. The question none of the marketing answers is the one you have a month later — what is left of that firing? This page is about that, maker by maker.
Last updated 21 October 2026, against each manufacturer’s own pages, manuals and app-store listings. These products change — if you are reading this a year from now, check the maker’s own page before you rely on anything here.
Where a maker does not say something, this page says not stated rather than “cannot”: absence from a website is not proof of absence from a product. None of these companies has anything to do with this dashboard — their names are here so you can find yours.
The short version
| Maker and app | Past firings | Getting one out |
|---|---|---|
| Rohde — myKiln | keeps every firing, automatically, free | exports one firing as PDF, JPG or CSV |
| TAP — TAP Kiln Control | keeps all firing logs, by the minute | emails all logs to you; file format not stated |
| Bartlett — KilnAid | the last firing, plus cloud logs on the paid tier | downloads a log you can read as CSV, paid tier |
| Skutt — KilnLink | last 10 on the controller; every firing on the paid tier | controller to a spreadsheet over your own network; from the cloud, not stated |
| Kilncare — GATEway | keeps a firing log with graphs and costs | not stated |
| Orton — no phone app | files on a Windows PC, found by browsing for them | the log is already delimited; open it in Excel |
| Nabertherm — MyNabertherm | not stated — the app is a live view | not from the app; one .CSV per firing to USB at the kiln |
Rohde — myKiln
The one on this page that already does what a firing log should do, and it costs nothing. Rohde call it “the digital firing book”, and they mean it: each firing is recorded and archived on its own, and you can add photographs of the results and notes to the curve afterwards. That is what a potter actually does with a record, and this is the only app here built for it.
Export arrived in May 2025, in version 2.0.0: an individual firing archive goes out as PDF, JPG or CSV. Note the granularity — one firing at a time. Bulk export, an email-out and an API are not stated.
The controllers that connect are the ST 310, ST 411, ST 612, ST 621, ST 630 and ST 632, all 2.4 GHz, with the Wi-Fi inside the controller rather than added by a dongle. Rohde also say a current app-capable controller can be fitted to any Rohde kiln built from 1994 onwards, over the CPC-14 connector. Read that precisely: it is about the kiln accepting a new controller, not an old controller gaining an app.
Whether the app can start or stop a kiln cannot be answered from any page Rohde still publishes, because their help centre has been taken down. A line saying remote control is not supported for safety reasons is widely quoted and reads like Rohde, but it now survives only as a search snippet of a page that is gone.
TAP — TAP Kiln Control, from SDS Industries
The most capable of them at telling the kiln what to do. It will create and edit schedules remotely, change a firing in progress, skip steps and abort, and — on a premium subscription, behind a six-digit code pushed to your phone — start the kiln. Whether you want a web service able to start your kiln is a separate question, and SDS themselves note that the controller is not a safety device and that a relay can fail closed.
History is kept in full: all historical firing and error logs, with by-the-minute data points, opened as a graph in the app. Export is by email — Event Logs, then “Email All Logs”, sent to the address the app is registered to, and only while the controller is in standby rather than mid-firing. What format arrives is not stated anywhere.
The original TAP controller needs a Wi-Fi dongle, sold separately; TAP II, TAP Micro, TAP Monitor and TAP&Go have it built in. Premium is $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year, and log export is free on the TAP II Pro and the original TAP. These controllers are the ones fitted to Evenheat kilns alongside Bartlett’s.
Bartlett — KilnAid, and the controller inside other people’s kilns
Worth checking even if you have never heard of Bartlett, because the controller in your kiln may well be one. Bartlett publish a list of manufacturers whose standalone kilns carry their controllers, and it names Evenheat, Olympic, Cress, Euclid, Aim, Tucker’s and Skutt. Where the kiln maker publishes the mapping themselves it is worth knowing: Evenheat’s Icon+ is a Genesis 2.0 and its Icon is a Spark; Cone Art’s GX is a Genesis 2.0.
The app runs with the Genesis 2.0, the Mini 2.0 and the Spark. Anyone can stop a firing from it; a KilnAid+ subscriber can load a program onto an idle kiln, and gets the cloud logs, which need controller firmware 4.19.0 or later.
On history, read Bartlett’s own wording carefully, because it is narrower than it sounds. The subscriber feature is to review the last firing — singular — together with log files from the kiln. A browsable archive of many past firings, each one openable, is not stated. What is stated plainly is the export: a log downloaded to your device can be viewed as a CSV.
Bartlett’s own FAQ still carries a line saying that as of August 2024 you cannot program, start or stop the kiln from the app, which their April 2026 manual contradicts. Believe the manual, and expect the website to catch up. bartlettinstrument.com
Skutt — KilnLink
Two quite different things share the name. The free app, on the touchscreen controllers, is monitoring: Skutt’s own manual says in so many words that it lets you monitor your kiln temperature and status from your smartphone, and nothing they publish describes it sending anything back.
KilnLink Premium is the cloud service, at $100 a year per kiln or $325 for five years, and that is where firing history lives: graphs of every firing, the programs run, start and end times, firing costs, and your own notes against each one. Whether any of it can be exported is not stated anywhere Skutt publishes.
Separately, and free, the controller itself keeps your last ten firings and will hand them over as a spreadsheet: Logs, then Graph Past Firing, then Export Log File. It shows an address and a single-use four-digit code, and you fetch the files from a computer on the same network. Ten, and then it wraps.
Kilncare — GATEway
Needs the Wi-Fi variant of the controller rather than the plain one: the KCR32CWIFi, or the KCR32ZWIFI for multi-zone. The plain KCR32C does not connect, which is the kind of detail worth knowing before buying a used kiln on the strength of an app.
It will stop a kiln, create and send programs to the controller, and show programs as graphs, with the whole remote side behind three opt-in switches on the controller itself. It will not start a firing, and Kilncare say why in their own manual: the state of the kiln may have changed since it was prepared for firing. That is the right answer, and they are the only maker here who writes it down.
Every firing is stored in a firing log — if the “store firing logs” setting is on — and any one of them opens to a graph, the temperatures through the run, the energy and the cost. Export is not stated, and not in the manual’s own section about the firing log either.
Orton — no phone app
Orton’s AutoFire controllers list a USB interface and no Wi-Fi, and the monitoring product is AutoFire RMS, a Windows application costing $250 as a kit with the cable and the connector. It watches up to four kilns, records at five-second intervals, and only begins collecting once the controller is actually running a schedule.
It logs rather than commands: the Start Capture button starts the PC’s recording, not the kiln. History is files on your own disk, found by browsing for a filename, with up to four opened side by side to compare. The files are already delimited, so Excel opens them with the delimiter set to comma, and there is a printed report. No export command as such, and no PDF.
One Orton page ends its feature list with “Coming Soon: WIFI apps for remote kiln monitoring”. It appears on that page only, with no date, no price and no app in either store, and the software manual it sits beside is from 2019 — so read it as an intention rather than a plan. ortonceramic.com
Nabertherm — MyNabertherm
The MyNabertherm app is free, works with the Series 500 controllers — B500, B510, C540, C550, P570 and P580 — and pairs with a five-digit code, up to nine people per furnace. It is a good live view, and a live view is all it claims to be. The operating instructions list its features in three lines:
Displays process data · Current program progress · Push message from a furnace.
No archive, no list of finished firings, no export — and the same three lines in the 2025 manual as in the 2024 one. Whatever the app shows you while the kiln is hot has gone by the time the kiln is cold.
The record does exist — at the kiln. The controller writes one
.CSV per firing to a USB flash drive through
NTLog, named by date, controller serial and a
consecutive number, and Nabertherm’s free NTGraph tool opens it
in Excel.
Two things are worth knowing before relying on it. It holds sixteen files and then overwrites the oldest, so keeping every firing means leaving a stick in the controller and remembering that you have. And it is a stick: somebody has to walk to the kiln, and whatever happened overnight is only on it if it was plugged in at the time.
The gap this was built for
Not that Nabertherm’s app is bad — it does what it says. But a kiln that runs for thirty hours deserves a record that outlives the firing, and the official answer to that is a memory stick with room for sixteen.
This dashboard reads the same cloud the app reads, with the login you already have, and keeps every firing as a graph you can go back to with a spreadsheet behind it. It only ever reads: it cannot start, stop or change anything. See a real firing, or read what the spreadsheet contains.
Not a Nabertherm?
Then this does not read your kiln yet. Only the reading is brand-specific: the graph, the firing log and the spreadsheet all work on temperature, setpoint and element power, whoever built the controller. Most of the makers above already put those numbers somewhere a program could fetch.
Tell me what you have — the make, the controller model, and whether it is on your network. Yours gets added when somebody with one asks.