HelloSake vs Botilo
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.
Botilo
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Some bottles are worth remembering. Botilo gives your favorites a place on your own glass shelves. Start with a photo, add the details, and watch your collection grow. Keep track of what’s on hand and save a note when you open a bottle, so you can return to the ones you loved. FROM PHOTO TO SHELF Photograph a bottle or choose a photo; photos you take in Botilo can also be saved to your Photos library. Botilo creates a studio-style bottle image and reads the visible label. Review the suggested details and make them your own. YOUR COLLECTION, AT A GLANCE • Keep wine, sake, and other bottles such as spirits together • Browse your glass shelves and keep quantities up to date • Explore your bottles on a globe by country and by grape variety • Search by name, producer, region, country, or grape variety • Save vintage, origin, price, and other bottle details REMEMBER WHAT YOU LOVED • Add tasting notes and a rating out of 5 • Mark a wine’s acidity, sweetness, tannin and body on simple sliders • Look back through the bottles you’ve opened KEEP YOUR COLLECTION CLOSE • View and edit saved bottles offline • Sync through your private iCloud database when iCloud is available • Export and restore a full backup with photos • See your newest bottles in a Home Screen widget • No separate app sign-in or advertising tracking TRY BOTILO, THEN CHOOSE PLUS Your first 5 bottle registrations are free; no subscription starts automatically. Botilo Plus is an optional monthly subscription that includes up to 30 registrations per monthly billing period. One registration includes a studio photo and label reading. It is used when processing completes, even if you do not save the photo. Server-confirmed processing failures return it to its original period or balance without extending the period. Unused monthly registrations do not roll over. Cancellation keeps access until the current paid period ends. Viewing and editing saved bottles, quantities, tasting notes, sync, and backups do not require a subscription. New photo processing requires an internet connection and App Store account verification. The price is shown in your local App Store currency before purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before renewal. Manage or cancel in App Store account settings. Bottle photos are processed through Botilo's server and OpenAI after your consent. Label reading does not search the web. For a recognised wine, a missing country, region or grape variety may be suggested and is marked Suggested. So is a type inferred from the wine's colour or appellation. Printed details Botilo can't confirm on the label are also marked Suggested. Generated images and suggested details may contain errors; check the bottle yourself. Botilo is a personal collection tool and does not sell alcohol. Privacy policy: https://botilo.download/privacy/ Service terms: https://botilo.download/terms/ Terms of use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Botilo at every 2 days against HelloSake's fortnightly. HelloSake's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HelloSake ships an update fortnightly, Botilo every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HelloSake | Botilo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (28 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 28 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | HelloSake, Inc | Sakino Tomiura |
In-app purchases
HelloSake
No in-app purchases
Botilo
No in-app purchases









