Comparison

HelloSake vs Pour

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

Head to head
About

HelloSake

Discover the world of Japanese sake with this app. Scan sake labels to access detailed information, save your favorites with notes, and read reviews from other users. Enhance your sake experience with precise search and rich brand stories.

Highlights
  • Scan sake labels for instant information
  • Save favorite sakes with notes
  • Read and refer to user reviews
  • Detailed sake information (origin, flavor, sweetness)
  • Precise search functions
  • Search sake by name
Features
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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.

About

Pour

This app guides you through pour-over coffee brewing with spoken instructions for each step. It offers curated recipes, allows recipe scaling and customization, and includes a journal to track your brews and learn about tasting notes.

Highlights
  • Spoken cues for every brewing step
  • 15 curated V60 and Hario Switch recipes
  • Scalable recipes with automatic target updates
  • Brew journal with tasting notes and suggestions
  • Custom recipe creation
  • Screen stays awake during brewing
Features
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Pour talks you through every pour. Press start and a calm voice calls each step as it happens: the bloom, every pour with its target weight, the waits and the drawdown. Your eyes stay on the kettle and the scale, not on your phone. GUIDED V60 TIMER • Spoken cues for every step, in three styles: Minimal, Normal or Coach • Target weight, pour time and pour speed for each pour • A clear countdown to the next pour, and the screen stays awake while you brew 15 CURATED RECIPES • Twelve V60 recipes, from a balanced everyday cup to the 4:6 method and competition-style pours • Three recipes for the Hario Switch • Every recipe shows dose, water, ratio, grind, temperature and total time SCALE ANY RECIPE • Change the coffee or the water and every pour target updates to keep the ratio • Pour remembers the dose you used last time A BREW JOURNAL THAT TEACHES YOU • Note how it drained, then taste: bright, sour, bitter or dry, with a short explanation of each • Rate the cup, and keep the coffee, grinder and grind setting with every brew • Pour suggests what to change next time, like grinding a little finer • Learn to taste: a short guide to what each flavor means for your next cup YOUR OWN RECIPES • Build a V60 recipe step by step and keep it for every brew POUR PRO Pour needs a Pour Pro subscription after the short welcome. Choose yearly, with a 7-day free trial for new subscribers, or weekly. Payment is charged to your Apple ID. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and you can manage them in your Apple ID settings. Apple shows the price, trial and renewal terms before you buy. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pour-landing-kappa.vercel.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

HelloSake4 screens
Pour4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: HelloSake at none against Pour's 2. HelloSake also leads on ratings volume (32 vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). Pour's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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. Pour sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days. HelloSake asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pour holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HelloSake has 32 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HelloSake ships an update fortnightly, Pour every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
HelloSake versus Pour: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelloSakePour
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (32 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings32 — better1
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size120 MB14 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperHelloSake, IncAthlete Mindset Inc.

Customer experience

HelloSake

All ratings32 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral9.4%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral60.0%
Negative0.0%

Pour

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

HelloSake

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Pour

Subscriptions2
  • Pour Pro Weekly$7.997 Days
  • Pour Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is HelloSake free?
HelloSake is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pour free?
Pour is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HelloSake or Pour?
Pour is rated higher. HelloSake averages 4.7 out of 5 from 32 ratings, while Pour averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do HelloSake or Pour have ads?
Neither HelloSake nor Pour shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HelloSake or Pour?
HelloSake ships an update fortnightly, and Pour every 3 weeks. Most recently, HelloSake was updated on November 7, 2026 and Pour on November 2, 2026.

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