Sidestock vs Countstead

Sidestock is the inventory and profit tracker for hobby sellers — without the spreadsheet. Whether you sell handmade ceramics on Etsy, vintage finds at weekend markets, or sneakers on the side, Sidestock keeps your stock, sales, and profit organized in one place on your iPhone. KNOW YOUR NUMBERS • Every item tracks cost, price, and margin at a glance • Profit reports by week, month, or year — revenue, costs, and real profit • Best-seller rankings so you know what to make or buy more of • Sale history keeps its original prices and costs, so past reports stay accurate even when you re-price SELL FAST • Log a multi-item sale in seconds: tap or scan products into a basket and complete them in one go • Scan a barcode to sell the exact product — or the exact variation • Adjust price per sale for discounts and bundles STOCK WITHOUT SPREADSHEETS • Restock Scan: point the camera at a box of new arrivals and watch quantities climb, with per-scan undo • Product variations, your way: Size, Color, Material — any groups you define, up to 100 combinations per product • Shared or per-variation barcodes, matching how your products are actually labeled • Organize with your own categories and tags, then filter and search by them — or find any product by scanning it YOUR DATA, EVERYWHERE AND NOWHERE ELSE • iCloud sync backs up your full inventory — photos included — and restores it automatically on a new device • Works fully offline; syncs when you're back • No account to create. Your data lives on your device and in your personal iCloud — we never see it, collect it, or track you PLAYS WELL WITH SHOPIFY • Export your inventory as a Shopify-ready CSV — variations map to Shopify options and variants natively • Link items by Handle so exports update existing products instead of duplicating them • Import your Shopify catalog, variants included, to get started in minutes • Plain CSV export of items and sales for your own records or accountant ONE PRICE, FOREVER Sidestock is free to try with up to 10 items — every feature included. One single purchase unlocks unlimited items. No subscription. No ads. No upsells. Built for makers, flippers, and side-hustlers who'd rather be selling than bookkeeping.

Countstead is an inventory app for small businesses on iPhone and iPad. Record what comes in and goes out, count what is on the shelf, scan barcodes and see what is running low, even with no internet connection. No account is needed to start. It is built for shops, market stalls, makers, resellers, cafés and kitchens, salons and repair workshops: small businesses that keep physical stock and have outgrown a spreadsheet, without taking on an ERP or warehouse system. WORKS OFFLINE Items, counts, locations and history live on your iPhone or iPad and work without a connection. Your inventory stays on the device unless you turn on sync. SCAN BARCODES Scan a barcode or QR code with the camera to open the item and record stock. Scan a code you have not used yet and Countstead offers to create the item with the code filled in. Codes are read on the device and matched against your own items; nothing is looked up online. RECORD EVERY MOVEMENT Record stock in, stock out, counts, corrections and transfers between locations. Every change is added to the item's history, so the original entry stays visible. Quantities can be whole units or decimals, such as kilograms and litres. SEE WHAT NEEDS ATTENTION Set a low-stock level for each item at each location, and the Low Stock view lists everything at or below it. Add best-before dates to see what is expiring soon. Reports show what your stock is worth at cost. KEEP ITEMS ORGANIZED Give each item a photo, SKU, barcode, unit, unit cost, sale value, notes and tags, and find it by searching as you type. YOUR DATA, BACKED UP A snapshot is a complete copy of your inventory, with quantities, history and photos, saved on this device. Share it to keep it somewhere else, and restore it on this device or another one. Import up to 10,000 rows from a CSV file or Excel workbook, and export everything as CSV whenever you like. COUNTSTEAD PRO The free app holds up to 30 active items at one location. Countstead Pro is an optional subscription that adds: • Unlimited items • More than one location • Sync across your devices, set up separately with Sign in with Apple • Low-stock and expiry alerts on this device • Reorder suggestions from your usage • Guided counts • What moved, by period • Retail value and margin • Printable barcode label sheets • A PDF inventory summary and filtered CSV reports • Automatic daily backups on this device Countstead is available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Indonesian. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://countstead.com/privacy/