Compared honestly · published prices as of July 2026

ItemTally vs Sortly

Sortly is the best-known name in small-business inventory, and it earned that. The honest summary: similar job, opposite pricing structure — Sortly meters your items per tier; ItemTally never meters items at all.

What Sortly does well

  • A mature, polished product. Photo-first folders and years of refinement — a comfortable tool to live in.
  • A serious mobile app. Thousands of App Store ratings; the phone experience is a first-class citizen.
  • Breadth on the upper tiers. Purchase orders and integrations, if you grow into wanting them. We deliberately never build those — a scope difference, not a gap.

The structural difference

Sortly caps items, seats, and custom fields per tier — as your register grows, you move up the ladder. Offline mode is tier-gated; API access is Enterprise-only. None of that is hidden.

ItemTally’s only meter is people who can write. Items are unlimited on every plan, offline and CSV export are never premium, and read-only API keys are free everywhere.

One event worth knowing, stated factually: in 2024, Sortly migrated customers off legacy plans on roughly two weeks’ notice — 2–10× increases for some (“$49/mo became $499/mo”), and some users were advised to delete records to fit caps. Not mockery, just the reason our pledge is signed and dated instead of printed in a FAQ.
The part that can’t be copied by a price cut: ItemTally’s pricing never meters items, on any plan, ever — and that is a signed, dated promise, not a plan detail. Read the pledge →

The numbers, side by side

SortlyItemTally
Entry paid plan $49/mo regular ($24 promo) €19/mo flat (€15 Founding 100)
Free tier 100 items · 1 user Unlimited items · 1 writer, free viewers
Items metered? Yes — item caps per tier Never — pledged, on every plan
Offline mode Tier-gated Every plan, including free
API access Enterprise only Read-only keys free everywhere; write keys count as crew
Custom fields Capped per tier Included, every room
Price changes 2024 forced migration, ~2 weeks’ notice Your joining price is locked — the pledge

Sortly figures from sortly.com pricing and public reviews as of July 2026; promotional prices change — check their page for today’s numbers.

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