Guide
Looking for a Sortly alternative at home
By the WhereKept team. Updated September 15, 2026.
People land on Sortly looking for a way to track what is in the house, and then meet business pricing. This page is an honest comparison from the people who make WhereKept, so read it with that in mind. Sortly is good software. It is just aimed at a different job.
What Sortly is built for
Sortly tracks stock. Folders of items, quantities, custom fields, barcode scanning, low stock alerts, jobs, and seats for staff. If you run a contracting business or a supply room, that is the right shape.
Its prices follow that. As of September 2026 the free plan holds 100 items for one user. The paid tiers are $288, $888 and $1,788 a year, with item caps of 500, 2,000 and 5,000 and two, five and eight user seats. First year discounts are usually on offer. For a household, the free plan is often the only sensible option, and the moment you pass 100 items you are looking at business money.
What a household needs instead
- Where, not which folder. A house is a physical tree: room, cabinet, drawer, bin. Folders can imitate that, but the answer you want is an address you can walk to.
- Everyone in the house, on one price. Seats are how business tools charge. A family should not pay per person to keep one list true.
- A reason to open it weekly. Finding things is the daily job. Insurance is the once a decade one.
Side by side
| Sortly | WhereKept | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Business stock | A household |
| Free plan | 100 items, 1 user | 25 items, 1 person |
| Paid plan | $288 a year, 500 items, 2 users | $19.99 a year, unlimited items, whole household |
| Organizes by | Folders and tags | Places that nest, as an address |
| Who moved it | Activity history on paid tiers | Every add and move, on every plan |
| Labels | Barcode and QR labels, scanner built in | QR labels for places, scanner built in |
| Platforms | iPhone, Android, web | iPhone only |
| Export | CSV and PDF on paid tiers | CSV on every plan, insurance PDF on Plus |
Sortly figures from sortly.com, checked September 2026. Prices change; check theirs before deciding.
Pick Sortly if
- You are tracking stock for work, with quantities, reorder points, or jobs.
- You need Android or a web browser, or several staff with their own seats.
- You want barcode scanning to look up products by UPC.
- You are already deep into it with hundreds of items entered.
Pick WhereKept if
- The question you actually ask is where is it, and you want an address back.
- More than one person in the house moves things and the list has to stay true.
- You want one price for the household rather than per seat.
- Everyone in the house is on an iPhone.
More on how the two ideas differ in what a home inventory app should do, and on the sharing side in a home inventory the whole family can use.
Questions
- Is Sortly bad for home use?
- No. It is a capable inventory app that plenty of households use happily, especially on its free plan. It is built and priced for businesses tracking stock, so the paid tiers cost far more than a family needs, and it organizes by folders rather than by where something physically is.
- What does Sortly cost?
- Checked in September 2026: a free plan with 100 items and one user, then Advanced at $288 a year for 500 items and two users, Ultra at $888 a year for 2,000 items and five users, and Premium at $1,788 a year. First year discounts are usually running. Check sortly.com for today's numbers.
- Can I move my Sortly data to WhereKept?
- Not automatically. There is no import yet, so it means re-entering items. If you have hundreds of items already catalogued, that is a real cost worth weighing.
- What does Sortly have that WhereKept does not?
- Barcode and QR scanning for stock, custom fields, quantity alerts, a web app, Android, and business features like jobs and purchase orders. WhereKept has none of those.