250 items free. Unlimited for $79 a year.
Stock counts for one-to-five-person businesses. Works with no signal. Your data exports free on every plan, forever.
- Free tier
- 250 items
- Pro
- $79/yr
- Export
- $0, every plan
- Offline
- Full database
$0
250 items. Free forever. No card.
$79/year
Unlimited items. Or $9.99 a month.
Export
CSV and Excel. Every plan. Forever.
The real price, before you’ve given me anything.
Three things that are actually different.
You don't hit a wall at 100 items.
Sortly’s free plan stops at 100. Its $49/mo plan stops at 500. This one is 250 free, unlimited on Pro.
The price you sign up at is the price you renew at.
Sortly’s own footnote: 50% off year one, 20% after. Read the small print yourself — it’s quoted in full on the comparison page.
Two phones can't silently lose a count.
Every quantity is a running list of adjustments, not one number that gets overwritten. Wrong quantities are the number-one complaint about every app in this category.
Sortly free
100
SolidStock free
250
That gap is the entire reason this exists.
The numbers, dated and sourced
Line by line.
| SolidStock | Sortly Free | Sortly Advanced | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Items included | 250 free · unlimited on Pro | 100 | 500 |
| Price | $0 · $79/year | $0 | $49/month |
| CSV + Excel export | Every plan, forever | Not listed on their pricing page | Not listed on their pricing page |
| Works with no signal | Yes — local database on your phone | — | — |
| Barcode label creation | Planned, not at launch | — | QR only — barcodes need $149/mo |
| Card required to start | No | No | Yes |
| Price visible before you install | Yes — it's above | Yes | Yes |
Sortly figures read from sortly.com/pricing, checked 2026-08-21. SolidStock hasn’t launched, so its column describes what it will do at launch, not what it does today.
On their annual discount, Sortly’s own footnote reads: 50% discount applies only to first year of new customer subscriptions. After the first year, a 20% discount applies to all yearly plans.
The $49/month column above is the list price, not the promotional first year.
Their pricing page doesn’t mention CSV or Excel export in any tier. That’s silence, not a paywall — we’re not going to tell you it’s locked when we haven’t confirmed it.
Moving over takes about five minutes.
Export
Export a CSV from Sortly, a spreadsheet, anything.
Drop it in
Map the columns and see a preview before anything saves.
Done
Folders become locations. Photos come across. One tap undoes the whole import for 24 hours.
An import that takes you over the 250-item free limit still completes in full. It never truncates your file and never leaves you locked out of your own rows.
What you don't get, at least not at launch.
No web or desktop app
It's a phone app. CSV covers the desktop job.
No purchase orders or invoicing
That's a different product.
No QuickBooks or Xero sync
Export to your accountant instead.
No label sheet printing
Scanning works. Printing comes later.
No team seats
One person, as many of your own devices as you like.
If one of those is a dealbreaker, you’ve saved yourself an install.
Four things that won't change.
- Export stays free on every plan, including the free one.
- No card to try it.
- Stop paying and you keep reading, editing and exporting your stock. No read-only hostage mode.
- No price rise without 90 days' notice, and never for anyone who joined early.
The full pricing page, including what would end that promise
One person is building this.
That’s a real risk, so here it is up front. It hasn’t launched. Nobody has used it, so there are no reviews or testimonials on this page. Free export is the insurance policy that makes trusting me reasonable.
Questions.
- When?
- Build starts this week, roughly eight weeks, then closed beta on both stores. Realistically late autumn. App Review is out of my hands.
- iPhone or Android?
- Both at launch. If iOS slips, Android ships first and I'll say so.
- Do I need a card?
- No. There's no trial and no countdown. Free is free.
- Does it really work with no signal?
- Yes. The database is on your phone, not a cache of it. It syncs when you're back in signal.
- What if you quit?
- You get notice and you get your data. That's why export is never gated.
Want telling when it’s out?
Sortly figures on this page read from their own pricing page, sortly.com/pricing, checked 2026-08-21.