Different Tools, Different Jobs
Sortly is a visual inventory tracking app — it tells you what you have. Tru-Stock AI is an inventory planning platform — it tells you what to order. They solve different problems, and some businesses use both.
Based on publicly available information as of February 2026. Feature details may change. Tru-Stock AI is not affiliated with Sortly.
Visual Inventory Tracking
Photo-based inventory
Attach photos to every item for visual identification and organization
QR and barcode scanning
Scan items in the field with a mobile device for quick lookups and counts
Asset management
Track equipment, tools, and physical assets across locations
Small team collaboration
Simple sharing and permissions for teams that need to see what's on hand
Low stock alerts
Get notified when items drop below a manually set threshold
Inventory Planning and Forecasting
AI demand forecasting
GPT-4o analyzes sales velocity, seasonality, and trends per SKU
Reorder optimization
Auto-generated purchase orders with safety stock and vendor splits
Vendor analysis
Lead time tracking, vendor scoring, and dual-source strategy recommendations
Risk detection
5-tier health bucketing identifies overstock, dead stock, and capital at risk
Distribution intelligence
Built for catalogs of 1,000 to 50,000+ SKUs with multi-vendor purchasing
Sortly is built for teams that need to see and track physical items. Warehouses scanning bins, field teams logging equipment, small businesses counting stock by hand. It answers the question: “Where is this item and how many do we have?”
Tru-Stock AI is built for businesses that need to predict demand and automate purchasing decisions. Distributors analyzing sales velocity, operations teams optimizing safety stock, buyers managing multi-vendor reorder points. It answers the question: “What should we order, how much, and from whom?”
You need visual asset tracking for a small team. You want to photograph items, scan QR codes in the field, and keep a clean count of what's on hand. Your main challenge is knowing where things are and how many you have.
You need AI-powered reorder planning for distribution. You manage thousands of SKUs across multiple vendors, your purchasing decisions involve significant capital, and you need demand forecasting, safety stock calculations, and automated purchase order generation.
Sortly can handle the visual, on-the-ground tracking side while Tru-Stock AI handles the planning and purchasing intelligence layer. Tracking what you have and planning what to order are complementary workflows, not competing ones.
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