Comparison

perf vs SPILS

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

Head to head
About

perf

Discover and track fragrances with this social discovery app. Log scents you wear, rate them, and build a personal collection. Identify bottles instantly with your camera and share your scent journey with friends.

Highlights
  • Scan and identify fragrances
  • Log and rate scents
  • Build a personal fragrance collection
  • Follow friends and share reviews
  • Discover new fragrances
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Perf is a fragrance social discovery app built for people for everyone who's curious about fragrance. Log every fragrance you've worn, rate it, write a review, and build a personal collection that tells your story. SCAN & IDENTIFY Point your camera at any bottle and Perf identifies it instantly, pulling details from a database of 50,000+ fragrances. LOG & RATE Track everything you wear. Rate fragrances, write reviews, and build a scent shelf that grows with your collection. FOLLOW FRIENDS & SHARE Follow friends, see what they're wearing, and share your own reviews and collection with your network. Fragrance is personal, and discovering it together makes it better. BUILD YOUR DIGITAL SHELF Organize your fragrance shelf, from everyday staples to special-occasion bottles, all in one place. If you're a lifelong fragrance enthusiast or just starting to explore fragrances, Perf helps you discover, track, and share what you love, with the people whose taste you trust.

About

SPILS

This app is a digital playground for fragrance enthusiasts, collectors, and creators. It offers tools to journal scent experiences, curate personal collections, experiment with fragrance formulas, and access a reference library of perfumery materials. Connect with a global community of scent lovers.

Highlights
  • Scent journaling and memory bank
  • Fragrance collection organization
  • Ingredient exploration and formula building
  • Perfumery material reference library
  • Community connection and discovery
Features
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SPILS brings your fragrance world together in one digital playground, a suite of apps created for enthusiasts, collectors, aspiring perfumers, and creators. Explore five distinct spaces designed around the way we experience, collect, create, and connect through fragrance. SPILS is launching completely open and free to explore for approximately the first 30 days. After this introductory period, you can stay on the Free plan or upgrade to SPILS Premium for expanded access. There is no automatic subscription or charge. Anything you create during the introductory period will remain in your account and accessible, even if you choose to stay on the Free plan. Premium pricing will be announced before it goes live, and Community will remain free. JOURNAL Your Scent Experience. Your Scent Story. There are plenty of perfume databases that can tell you the notes, descriptions and details of a fragrance. Journal was built for something more personal: what a scent means to you. Part diary, part memory bank, it’s a place for your impressions, experiences and scent memories, captured in your own words. SPILS can assist when you want it, but it doesn’t tell your story for you. Your nose. Your memories. Your perspective. COLLECTION Curate your fragrance world. Organize and explore your personal perfume Collection in one place, keeping the fragrances you own and the information surrounding them easy to discover and manage. LAB Experiment. Create. Evolve. Explore ingredients, build and refine formulas, document experiments, and save different versions as your fragrance ideas evolve. COMING SOON Collaborative formula creation with partners and groups ORGAN Your perfumery reference library. Explore and organize a catalog of perfumery materials and ingredients for reference, learning, and easier access to the information behind fragrance creation. Import your existing materials from a CSV file, or get started with a downloadable SPILS template. COMMUNITY Explore, discover, and connect with fragrance enthusiasts around the world. AVAILABLE NOW Industry News Fragrance Chat SPILS Support COMING SOON Interviews Events Marketplace Formula Forum Directory Share your SPILS entries, discoveries, and creations with others, from your Journal and Collection to the Lab and Organ. Whether you're discovering fragrance, documenting a growing collection, learning perfumery, developing your own formulas, or simply obsessed with scent, SPILS gives your fragrance life one place to live.

Screenshots

perf4 screens
SPILS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: perf at free against SPILS's freemium. SPILS's advantage is device support. On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for perf against 5.0 for SPILS. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
perf versus SPILS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterperfSPILS
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better3
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Devices—iPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB39 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperJocelyn MiDONERIK LLC

In-app purchases

None

perf

No in-app purchases

None

SPILS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is perf free?
perf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SPILS free?
SPILS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, perf or SPILS?
perf and SPILS are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 5 and 3 ratings respectively.

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