diff --git a/src/tests/test_polars.py b/src/tests/test_polars.py
index 357cb91e3..820ca8725 100644
--- a/src/tests/test_polars.py
+++ b/src/tests/test_polars.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
 
 from hypothesis import given
-from hypothesis.strategies import sampled_from
+from hypothesis.strategies import fixed_dictionaries, floats, none, sampled_from
 from polars import (
     Boolean,
     DataFrame,
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@
 from polars.testing import assert_frame_equal, assert_series_equal
 from pytest import mark, param, raises
 
+from utilities.hypothesis import int64s, text_ascii
 from utilities.polars import (
+    AppendDataClassError,
     CheckPolarsDataFrameError,
     CheckZonedDTypeOrSeriesError,
     ColumnsToDictError,
@@ -49,6 +51,7 @@
     _check_polars_dataframe_schema_set,
     _check_polars_dataframe_schema_subset,
     _yield_struct_series_element_remove_nulls,
+    append_dataclass,
     ceil_datetime,
     check_polars_dataframe,
     check_zoned_dtype_or_series,
@@ -70,6 +73,7 @@
     yield_struct_series_elements,
     zoned_datetime,
 )
+from utilities.types import StrMapping
 from utilities.zoneinfo import (
     UTC,
     HongKong,
@@ -80,6 +84,45 @@
 )
 
 
+class TestAppendDataClass:
+    @given(data=fixed_dictionaries({"a": int64s() | none(), "b": floats() | none()}))
+    def test_main(self, *, data: StrMapping) -> None:
+        schema = {"a": Int64, "b": Float64, "c": Utf8}
+        df = DataFrame([], schema=schema, orient="row")
+
+        @dataclass(kw_only=True)
+        class Row:
+            a: int | None = None
+            b: float | None = None
+
+        row = Row(**data)
+        result = append_dataclass(df, row)
+        check_polars_dataframe(result, height=1, schema_list=schema)
+
+    @given(
+        data=fixed_dictionaries({
+            "a": int64s() | none(),
+            "b": floats() | none(),
+            "c": text_ascii() | none(),
+        })
+    )
+    def test_error(self, *, data: StrMapping) -> None:
+        df = DataFrame([], schema={"a": Int64, "b": Float64}, orient="row")
+
+        @dataclass(kw_only=True)
+        class Row:
+            a: int | None = None
+            b: float | None = None
+            c: str | None = None
+
+        row = Row(**data)
+        with raises(
+            AppendDataClassError,
+            match="Dataclass fields .* must be a subset of DataFrame columns .*; dataclass had extra items .*",
+        ):
+            _ = append_dataclass(df, row)
+
+
 class TestCeilDatetime:
     start: ClassVar[dt.datetime] = dt.datetime(2000, 1, 1, 0, 0, tzinfo=UTC)
     end: ClassVar[dt.datetime] = dt.datetime(2000, 1, 1, 0, 3, tzinfo=UTC)
diff --git a/src/utilities/__init__.py b/src/utilities/__init__.py
index d8f91625e..b5c2e7e31 100644
--- a/src/utilities/__init__.py
+++ b/src/utilities/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-__version__ = "0.57.1"
+__version__ = "0.57.2"
diff --git a/src/utilities/polars.py b/src/utilities/polars.py
index f7cc0e4ab..4e4115daf 100644
--- a/src/utilities/polars.py
+++ b/src/utilities/polars.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import datetime as dt
+import reprlib
 from collections.abc import Callable, Iterable, Iterator, Mapping, Sequence
 from collections.abc import Set as AbstractSet
 from contextlib import suppress
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@
 from typing import (
     TYPE_CHECKING,
     Any,
+    Generic,
     Literal,
     Never,
     TypeGuard,
@@ -36,6 +38,7 @@
     Utf8,
     all_horizontal,
     col,
+    concat,
     lit,
     struct,
     when,
@@ -54,15 +57,17 @@
 from polars.testing import assert_frame_equal
 from typing_extensions import override
 
-from utilities.dataclasses import Dataclass, is_dataclass_class
+from utilities.dataclasses import Dataclass, is_dataclass_class, yield_field_names
 from utilities.errors import redirect_error
 from utilities.iterables import (
     CheckIterablesEqualError,
     CheckMappingsEqualError,
+    CheckSubSetError,
     CheckSuperMappingError,
     MaybeIterable,
     check_iterables_equal,
     check_mappings_equal,
+    check_subset,
     check_supermapping,
     is_iterable_not_str,
     one,
@@ -84,6 +89,7 @@
     from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
 
 
+_T = TypeVar("_T")
 DatetimeHongKong = Datetime(time_zone="Asia/Hong_Kong")
 DatetimeTokyo = Datetime(time_zone="Asia/Tokyo")
 DatetimeUSCentral = Datetime(time_zone="US/Central")
@@ -91,6 +97,30 @@
 DatetimeUTC = Datetime(time_zone="UTC")
 
 
+def append_dataclass(df: DataFrame, obj: Dataclass, /) -> DataFrame:
+    """Append a dataclass object to a DataFrame."""
+    fields = yield_field_names(obj)
+    try:
+        check_subset(fields, df.columns)
+    except CheckSubSetError as error:
+        raise AppendDataClassError(
+            left=error.left, right=error.right, extra=error.extra
+        ) from None
+    row = DataFrame([obj], orient="row")
+    return concat([df, row], how="diagonal")
+
+
+@dataclass(kw_only=True)
+class AppendDataClassError(Exception, Generic[_T]):
+    left: AbstractSet[_T]
+    right: AbstractSet[_T]
+    extra: AbstractSet[_T]
+
+    @override
+    def __str__(self) -> str:
+        return f"Dataclass fields {reprlib.repr(self.left)} must be a subset of DataFrame columns {reprlib.repr(self.right)}; dataclass had extra items {reprlib.repr(self.extra)}"
+
+
 @overload
 def ceil_datetime(column: Expr | str, every: Expr | str, /) -> Expr: ...
 @overload
@@ -863,6 +893,7 @@ def zoned_datetime(
     "IsNullStructSeriesError",
     "SetFirstRowAsColumnsError",
     "YieldStructSeriesElementsError",
+    "append_dataclass",
     "ceil_datetime",
     "check_polars_dataframe",
     "check_zoned_dtype_or_series",