Comparison

Perfumers Vault vs Formulair

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Perfumers Vault

This app helps perfumers formulate scents by validating IFRA limits and organizing ingredients. It offers features for managing formulas, categories, and suppliers, with AI integration available through a separate subscription.

Highlights
  • IFRA limits validation
  • Ingredient organization
  • Formula management
  • Category and supplier management
  • AI integration
  • Import/export functionality
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Perfumers Vault is an invaluable tool for perfumery formulation. It offers features like IFRA limits validation, ensuring you stay within the recommended guidelines. The platform also allows you to organize your ingredients, categories and suppliers. Subscription model provides: - Unlimited formulas - Unlimited scheduled formulas - Unlimited ingredients - IFRA library import - Import/export functionality for formulas and ingredients - Gemini AI integration (separate paid Google Gemini API subscription is required) --- *AI features require a separate paid Google Gemini API subscription --- Subscription auto-renews unless canceled and will be charged via Apple iTunes account. Prices vary by location. --- Terms of Use (EULA) https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Formulair

This app helps perfumers organize raw materials and create fragrance formulas. It allows detailed tracking of ingredients, dilutions, and costs, with tools for scaling and visualizing scent profiles. Export your creations in various formats for sharing or further analysis.

Highlights
  • Raw material organization with detailed cards
  • Formula creation and management
  • Customizable scaling engine
  • Fragrance pyramid and category visualization
  • Dilution tracking and management
  • Formula export to PDF, Markdown, TSV
  • Color-coding for raw materials
Features
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Designed for apprentice and self-taught perfumers. As easy as using a pen and paper but allows you to make connections between raw materials and formulas which a traditional notebook can't provide. Keep your raw materials organised with collection of cards to store information. Keep track of basic information such as supplier, IFRA limits and cost per gram. Add dates for purchasing your stock and making dilutions to act as a reminder to when raw materials may have gone off. A table summarising concentration in formulas serves to quickly remind you which usage levels you found the most success with. Organise your formulas into custom categories and sketch out new ones with ease. Simply search your raw materials library and set a weight in grams up to 3 decimal places. Mark formula entries as too strong or weak. Change the dilution of a formula entry or swap out a raw material as you please. Formulair makes all of this quick and easy. Features: - A custom scaling engine helps you scale formulas up and down using a scaling factor, target weight or target concentration. - View a fragrance pyramid split into 5 levels of substantivity and a visual raw material category breakdown for each formula. - Keep track of different raw materials' dilutions and change dilutions in formulas using the existing solvent. - Includes a setting to scramble your raw material usage table, hiding sensitive formula information. - Your data is secured by apple in a private iCloud container. - Featuring a carefully designed colour palette, allowing you to assign colours to fully capture the essence your raw materials. - A rich interface supports light and dark mode. Even the raw materials colour palette adapts dynamically. - Raw material cards include a listing of every formula it's used in from strongest to weakest, showing any flags you set for too strong or weak. - Export formulas to pdf allowing you to print and share, markdown to open in note taking software, or tsv (tab-separated value) files, to load into spreadsheet software. Pricing: Formulair allows you to add up to 25 raw materials and up to 25 formulas for free. Once you try to go above this limit, you will be offered a one-time in-app-purchase to buy the full version, which allows you to create unlimited raw materials and formulas.

Screenshots

Perfumers Vault4 screens
Formulair4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Formulair at 87% against Perfumers Vault's 0%. Formulair also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (199 vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Perfumers Vault sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Formulair sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Formulair holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Formulair has 199 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Perfumers Vault's written reviews are positive against 87% of Formulair's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Perfumers Vault versus Formulair: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPerfumers VaultFormulair
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (4 ratings)4.8 (199 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews86.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings4199 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperM24 Media LtdLux & Terra Ltd.

Customer experience

Perfumers Vault

All ratings4 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Formulair

All ratings190 ratings
Positive95.3%
Neutral1.6%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews53 reviews
Positive86.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative13.2%

Bugs and requests

Perfumers Vault

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Formulair

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • App does not open
  • Forgets license after purchase
  • Crashing when deleting material categories or materials
  • Syncing issues between laptop and iPad
  • Cannot remove imported materials all at once

Requested features

24 requests
  • Group formula raw materials by Top, Core, Base
  • Group product printing by Top, Core, Base
  • Allow sub-categories for formula grouping
  • Formula batch log for tracking batches and inventory
  • Copy images into notes fields
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  • General notes section not tied to material/formula
  • Incorporate/calculate accords in formulas
  • More color variations for app/categories
  • Image option to capture raw material appearance
  • Spanish version of the app
  • Additional fields like 'Manufacturer' or 'Country of Origin'
  • Option to add custom fields
  • Accord library option integrated into formulas
  • Extensive CSV library of raw materials for full version
  • Block information of raw materials
  • Export/import Excel data
  • Allow including created fragrances in new formulations
  • Edit printed items
  • Filter by FEMA
  • Ability to use on Windows computer
  • Pairing and correlation between raw materials
  • Save formulas for accords into other formulas
  • Add an ingredient that is treated as a base with its own formula
  • Make adding infusions and tinctures more convenient

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Perfumers Vault

Subscriptions3
  • Perfumers Vault PRO$4.991 Month
  • Perfumers Vault PRO$24.996 Months
  • Perfumers Vault PRO$39.991 Year
1 purchases

Formulair

One-time1
  • Full Version$39.99

Questions

Is Perfumers Vault free?
Perfumers Vault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Formulair free?
Formulair is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Perfumers Vault or Formulair?
Formulair is rated higher. Perfumers Vault averages 3.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Formulair averages 4.8 from 199 ratings.
Do Perfumers Vault or Formulair have ads?
Neither Perfumers Vault nor Formulair shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Perfumers Vault or Formulair?
Perfumers Vault ships an update every 3 weeks, and Formulair every 3 weeks. Most recently, Perfumers Vault was updated on November 3, 2026 and Formulair on November 3, 2026.

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