HelloSake vs 日本酒ノート2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HelloSake
Discover the world of Japanese sake with detailed information and user reviews. Scan sake labels to instantly access details like origin, flavor, and sweetness. Save your favorites and enhance your sake tasting experience.
- Scan sake labels for instant information
- Detailed sake profiles (origin, flavor, sweetness)
- Save favorite sakes with notes and reviews
- Access experienced user reviews
- Precise search by name or machine learning
- Enhance sake tasting experience
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Welcome to HelloSake! Japanese sake has a lot of variety of products as well as tastes and each sake has its own brand story. HelloSake provides all sake lovers with access to detailed information extremely easily to help discover the best one. We help enrich the sake experience through this app to enhance the sake community. FEATURES/ HOW TO USE •Take a photo of the sake label to get access to the information easily. •Save your favorite sake that you had with some notes and simple reviews. •Refer to reviews of experienced users. •Information includes sake name, details, place of origin, flavor, and degree of sweetness/ spiciness. •Highly accurate machine learning enables super precise search functions. •Simply search sake information by name.
日本酒ノート2
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日本酒好き必見！ お気に入りの日本酒を星評価でカタログ化する「日本酒ノート」。 お酒好き仲間の記録を「乾杯」して盛り上げましょう。
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Verdict
HelloSake and 日本酒ノート2 are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HelloSake ships an update fortnightly, 日本酒ノート2 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HelloSake | 日本酒ノート2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (31 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | HelloSake, Inc | SonicGarden |
In-app purchases
HelloSake
No in-app purchases
日本酒ノート2
No in-app purchases
