Drydown vs Scentory
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drydown
This AI-powered fragrance advisor helps you manage your perfume collection, discover new scents, and get personalized recommendations based on weather, mood, and occasion. It offers smart layering suggestions and tracks your wear history to reveal your unique Scent DNA.
- AI-powered bottle scanning and identification
- Personalized scent recommendations
- Fragrance layering suggestions
- Collection management and tracking
- Wear journaling and Scent DNA analysis
- Wishlist and purchase advisor
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Some people own a handful of bottles. You have a wardrobe – and Drydown helps you wear it like one. Ask "What should I wear today?" and your AI Sommelier answers from your own shelf – by weather, occasion, mood, and time of day. Drydown is your personal AI fragrance advisor. Scan bottles with your camera, build a beautiful collection, get weather-aware recommendations, and discover the art of layering – all powered by intelligent AI. THE SOMMELIER – RECOMMENDATIONS THAT REMEMBER • A real multi-turn chat – ask "What about something lighter?" and it remembers the context • Suggests from YOUR collection, weighing your actual wear history, not just the forecast • Pick occasion, mood, and weather with quick-tap chips – no forms THE LAB — THE ART OF LAYERING • Instant compatibility score for any two-fragrance pairing – no waiting on AI • Scored across 5 dimensions: note family, concentration, pyramid interaction, season, and performance • Application technique included: spray counts, body zones, and timing • Green reliably means a genuinely great match AI BOTTLE SCANNING • Snap a photo – on-device Vision OCR plus AI auto-fill the brand, name, concentration, and full note pyramid • Scan barcodes against a database of thousands of fragrances PURCHASE ADVISOR & DUPE FINDER • Compare any wishlist fragrance to your collection before you buy • Verdicts – Strong Buy, Buy, Consider, Skip, or Strong Skip – scored on collection gaps, note overlap, seasonal versatility, and value • Duplicate detection reveals overlap you already own – never buy a duplicate again DEEP ANALYTICS • Collection Health Score across 5 dimensions – Diversity, Engagement, Curation, Seasonality, and Completeness • Wear patterns by time of day and day of week, monthly recaps, and plain-language insights • Value tracking: cost-per-wear, break-even tracker, best-value leaderboard, and idle-money insights SCENT DNA • Your fragrance archetype, a preference radar chart, dominant notes, brand affinities, and the notes you tend to avoid TODAY'S PICK & HOME SCREEN WIDGETS • A smart daily recommendation with one-tap wear logging and alternatives • Widgets for Today's Pick (with a Log button), a wear-streak tracker, Collection Spotlight that rotates on its own through season-appropriate gems, and quick logging WARDROBE PLANNER • Plan fragrances on a calendar with AI-suggested weekly rotation based on the forecast and your history WEAR JOURNAL • Log every wear with ratings, longevity, projection, mood, occasion, weather, and compliments – one tap SHAREABLE CARDS • 13 editorial templates – Scent DNA, Top Five, Wear Streak, Cost-Per-Wear, Monthly Recap and more – in Story, Square, and Wide formats ACHIEVEMENTS & STREAKS • 18 achievements across collection milestones, wearing goals, variety, and dedication – from First Addition to Master Collector IMPORT & EXPORT • Import via CSV or JSON, export for backup, and generate beautiful collection infographics DRYDOWN AI – BUILT INTO PRO • Every AI feature works instantly – no API keys, no setup, powered by a privacy-focused proxy that never stores your data • Power users can optionally bring their own Gemini or OpenAI key PRICING • Free to download. Free users get 3 Sommelier conversations a month • Pro unlocks every AI feature: 7-day free trial on the annual plan, then $29.99/year. Or $4.99/month • Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled; manage anytime in Settings PRIVACY FIRST Your fragrance data stays on your device and in your private iCloud container. We don't have servers, accounts, or access to your collection. Terms of Use: https://drydown.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://drydown.app/privacy.html
Scentory
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Scentory helps you organize perfume samples and remember every trial. Where did that sample go? How did it smell a few hours later? Would you buy a bottle? Keep the location, impressions and decisions together, so your next choice starts with your own experience. ORGANIZE YOUR SAMPLES Group samples into boxes. Add photos, names and position numbers, then search your library. Samples without a position work too. On your own box photo, you can manually mark sample locations. CHOOSE WHAT TO TRY TODAY Get suggestions from samples you already own: something untried, ready for another test, or recently loved. Explore, choose a familiar favorite, or revisit a scent. RECORD HOW A SCENT CHANGES Keep first impressions and later observations in the same trial. Choose a feeling, add scent tags and write a note. Adjust times, add context, and opt into a local reminder when useful. REMEMBER YOUR DECISIONS Buy a bottle, keep the sample, try again or pass. Add your reason, update your choice later, and keep earlier decisions in your history. LOOK BACK ON YOUR EXPLORATION Review impressions and decisions in a timeline. See monthly trials, frequently tested samples, exploration progress and current decisions. START WITH THE PERFUME CATALOG Browse the bundled catalog offline, select samples you own, or add any sample manually. PRIVATE STORAGE AND BACKUPS No Scentory account required. Works offline, with optional private iCloud sync. Export JSON backups and merge restored data. Your data stays on your devices and in your private iCloud database, with no developer-operated data server. START FREE Start with ten samples, the default box and one custom box. Scentory Pro removes sample and custom-box limits. SCENTORY PRO Scentory Pro is available as auto-renewing monthly and yearly subscriptions or a one-time lifetime purchase. Eligible subscribers can try either subscription free for 3 days; Apple determines eligibility, and only one introductory offer can be redeemed within the subscription group. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation. Manage or cancel subscriptions in your Apple Account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://wlb0806.github.io/someInfo/scentoryprivacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Drydown at every 5 days against Scentory's every 2 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Drydown sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Scentory sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Drydown ships an update every 5 days, Scentory every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drydown | Scentory |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (8 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Laurence Young | 灵博 王 |
In-app purchases
Drydown
- Drydown Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- Drydown Pro Annual$29.991 Year
Scentory
- Scentory Pro (Monthly)3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Scentory Pro (Yearly)3 Days trial$3.991 Year
- Scentory Pro (Lifetime)$1.99









