SolidStock compared with Sortly.
Written by the person building the competitor, so read it with that in mind. Every number about Sortly on this page is taken from their own published pricing page, dated, and linked. Nothing here is inferred, and where I couldn’t confirm something, I say so instead of guessing in my own favour.
SolidStock hasn’t launched. Sortly is a real product with real customers that has been running for years — if you need inventory software today, it works and this doesn’t exist yet. This page is about what you get for the money, not about whether they built something good.
The short version
Three differences that actually change the bill.
- 01
The item cap
Sortly's free plan holds 100 items. The $49/mo plan holds 500. SolidStock is 250 free and unlimited on a $79/year plan.
- 02
The renewal
Sortly's own footnote says the 50% discount applies to the first year only, then drops to 20%. SolidStock's yearly price in year two is the yearly price in year one.
- 03
Getting your data out
CSV and Excel export is free on every SolidStock plan including the free one, forever. It is the one thing I've promised never to gate, because it's what makes trusting a one-person company reasonable.
Sortly's published plans
What each tier costs and how many items it holds.
| Plan | Price | Items | Users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 100 | 1 |
| Advanced | $49/mo | 500 | 2 |
| Ultra | $149/mo | 2,000 | 5 |
| Premium | $299/mo | 5,000 | 8 |
| SolidStock Free | $0 | 250 | 1 |
| SolidStock Pro | $9.99/mo or $79/yr | Unlimited | 1 |
Sortly figures from sortly.com/pricing, sortly.com/pricing, checked 2026-08-21. Sortly is their trademark and this page is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. Prices change — if you find these are out of date, tell me and I’ll fix the page.
“50% discount applies only to first year of new customer subscriptions. After the first year, a 20% discount applies to all yearly plans.”
That is worth reading twice, because it is the thing people are actually complaining about when they say the price went up. The first-year number is not the number you renew at.
One more gate worth knowing about before you pick a tier: QR code label creation starts on Advanced ($49/mo). Barcode label creation requires Ultra ($149/mo). SolidStock won’t print label sheets at launch at all — see the honest gaps below — but scanning works on the free plan.
The difference that isn't about money
Two phones editing one item can't silently lose a change.
The most damaging thing an inventory app can do isn’t charging too much. It’s showing you a quantity that isn’t true, because you then order against it.
Most apps store a quantity as a single number and overwrite it with whichever edit arrived last. If you take 3 off in the van while someone in the workshop adds 5, one of those two changes can vanish and the app will look perfectly healthy afterwards.
SolidStock stores quantity as an append-only list of every adjustment ever made. The number you see is the sum. Two edits from two phones are two rows, so neither can overwrite the other — there is no last-write-wins on quantity anywhere in the system, by design, and that constraint is written into the architecture docs rather than being a thing I intend to be careful about.
I can’t show you this working yet, because it isn’t built. When it is, a screen recording replaces these three paragraphs. Claiming it in prose is worth less than showing it.
Where they win
Reasons to stay with Sortly, written by me.
A comparison page where the competitor loses every row is an advert. Here is the honest other side, and if any of it matters to you then you should stay where you are.
It exists today.
You can install it this afternoon. SolidStock is roughly eight weeks of building away from a closed beta, and app review after that.
Multiple user seats.
Sortly's paid tiers include 2–8 users. SolidStock v1 is one person with as many of their own devices as they like — no team accounts at launch.
Label printing.
If you print sheets of barcode labels, Sortly does that on Ultra and SolidStock won't do it at launch at all.
A company behind it.
Years of operating history, a support team, and no chance that the only developer gets ill. I'm one person, and you should weigh that.
Integrations and a web app.
SolidStock v1 is a phone app with CSV export and no QuickBooks or Xero sync.
A track record you can check.
Hundreds of public reviews to read. I have none, and no amount of copywriting on this page substitutes for that.
If you do switch
Export, drop it in, done.
- Step 1
Export from Sortly
A CSV out of your existing account. Your file, your data, on your machine.
- Step 2
Drop the file in
Column mapping, a preview, and a validation report before a single row is saved.
- Step 3
Folders and photos come with you
Folder paths become locations. If it goes wrong, one tap undoes the entire import for 24 hours.
An import that would take 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 — you just can’t add new items until you’re back under the cap or on Pro.
If the cap is what’s bothering you, leave your address.
You’ll get one email when it launches and a build log every other Tuesday. If it slips, the build log is where you’ll read that it slipped.