HelloSake vs DouMo Sake
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.
DouMo Sake
Discover your next favorite sake by scanning labels or searching by taste. This app analyzes your past preferences to recommend new sakes tailored to your palate.
- Scan sake labels
- Search by taste description
- Analyze past reviews
- Personalized sake recommendations
- Record tasting notes
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DouMo will find your favorite Sake by scanning the label, keywords, description of taste...etc. DouMo can also analyze your past reviews and records, then a variety of different Sake can be recommended that will suite your taste.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: DouMo Sake at 5.0 against HelloSake's 4.6. HelloSake's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 weeks) and ratings volume (28 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
DouMo Sake holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HelloSake has 28 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
HelloSake ships an update fortnightly, DouMo Sake every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and August 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HelloSake | DouMo Sake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (28 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | HelloSake, Inc | DouMo Entertainment, Inc. |
Customer experience
HelloSake
DouMo Sake
In-app purchases
HelloSake
No in-app purchases
DouMo Sake
No in-app purchases
