Comparison

Formulair vs Scentarts

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

Head to head
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.

About

Scentarts

Features
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Scent Arts is your ultimate scenting partner to discover, or rediscover, the signature scent for your Home or your business to create a unique olfactory experience to your guests and clients.

Screenshots

Formulair4 screens
Scentarts4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scentarts at none against Formulair's 1. Scentarts also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Formulair sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Scentarts asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Formulair ships an update every 3 weeks, Scentarts monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Formulair versus Scentarts: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFormulairScentarts
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (199 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews86.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings199 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLux & Terra Ltd.Cumulus Software Private Limited

Bugs and 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

Scentarts

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Formulair

One-time1
  • Full Version$39.99
None

Scentarts

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Formulair free?
Formulair is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scentarts free?
Scentarts is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Formulair or Scentarts have ads?
Neither Formulair nor Scentarts shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Formulair or Scentarts?
Formulair ships an update every 3 weeks, and Scentarts monthly. Most recently, Formulair was updated on October 24, 2026 and Scentarts on October 27, 2026.

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