Model Inventory vs Sortify
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Model Inventory
This app helps model railroad enthusiasts organize their collections. Track locomotives, rolling stock, structures, and accessories with custom categories, purchase details, photos, and notes. It's ideal for managing your collection and for use at train shows.
- Track locomotives, rolling stock, structures, scenery, accessories
- Create custom categories
- Log purchase date and cost
- Store photos
- Add notes
- Useful for train shows and swap meets
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Easy-to-use inventory system for tracking your model railroad locomotives, rolling stock, structures, scenery and accessories. Create custom categories, log item purchase date and cost, store photos, and make notes. Perfect to take to train shows and swap meets.
Sortify
Manage your inventory with ease using this mobile app. Create, add, remove, and log items and categories for household, office, business, or warehouse needs. Streamline your inventory tracking directly from your smartphone.
- Create inventory items
- Add and remove items
- Log items and categories
- Manage household inventory
- Track office and business inventory
- Support for warehouse inventory
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Do you have a problem with keeping, maintaining, or finding inventory items? Do you find it hard to add or remove items from your inventory daily? Sortify is a phone-based app that will help create, add, remove, and log items as well as categories from the simple household, small to medium size of the office, business, and warehouse with the click of your smartphone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sortify at 80% against Model Inventory's 24%. Sortify also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.1). Model Inventory's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Sortify holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Model Inventory's written reviews are positive against 80% of Sortify's.
Model Inventory ships an update every 4 weeks, Sortify every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 8, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Model Inventory | Sortify |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.4% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 10.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Woodland Scenics | ORACLE MULTIMEDIA ENTERPRISES LLC |
Customer experience
Model Inventory
Sortify
In-app purchases
Model Inventory
No in-app purchases
Sortify
No in-app purchases
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