Compare / Cartsy
Last updated September 2026
Cartsy finds the products in a post and where to buy them. Sorti saves everything you find on social, products, recipes, places, outfits, links, screenshots, and tells you when a saved product drops in price. On iPhone and Android, free.
TL;DR - Quick verdict
Both apps start at the same moment: you see something on Instagram or TikTok and you want it. Cartsy’s answer is to find the item and the stores that sell it. Sorti’s answer is to keep the save, sort it, and bring it back when it matters, like when the price drops.
If everything you save is a product you are about to buy, the two overlap a lot. If your saves are a mix of a jacket, a pasta recipe, a restaurant, and an article, they do very different jobs.
Cartsy (“Cartsy - shop what you watch”, by CR AI Labs, Inc.) is an AI shopping assistant. You share a post or reel to @cartsyapp on Instagram, or to its app, and it reads the video, spots the items in it, and searches stores across the web, with prices side by side. You can bookmark products, build collections, and ask follow-ups like other colors or a lower budget.
As of September 2026, Cartsy works through Instagram DMs, on the web at cartsy.com, and in an iPhone app (iOS 16.4 or later) that launched on the App Store in September 2026. There is no Android app. Cartsy is free to use.
Cartsy is sharp at one hard thing: turning a video into a shopping list. Spotting every item in a reel and lining up stores and prices is useful when you already know you want to buy, and doing it straight from an Instagram DM removes a step.
Our view is simply that most saves are not a purchase yet. People save a product to think about it, wait for a better price, or buy it next month, and they save recipes, places, and ideas right next to it. That is the part Sorti is built for.
| Feature | Sorti | Cartsy |
|---|---|---|
| Save from Instagram & TikTok by sharing | ✓ | ✓ |
| Products saved into collections | ✓ | ✓ |
| Screenshots & photos | ✓ | ✓ |
| Price drop alerts on saved products | ✓ | - |
| Recipes (ingredients & steps extracted) | ✓ | - |
| Places & restaurants | ✓ | - |
| Links & articles on any topic | ✓ | - |
| PDFs & documents | ✓ | - |
| Audio memos | ✓ | - |
| Creator Mode & affiliate links | ✓ | - |
| iPhone | ✓ | ✓ |
| Android | ✓ | - |
| Free | ✓ | ✓ |
| Price | Free forever | Free |
Cartsy details are based on its App Store listing (version 1.0.1) and cartsy.com as of September 2026.
Cartsy is built around products. Sorti takes a product, a recipe reel, a TikTok restaurant, a screenshot, a PDF, or a link, and files each one by what it is. A recipe becomes a card with ingredients and steps, a place gets a location and a link to maps, and a product gets its price tracked.
Cartsy compares prices at the moment you search. Sorti keeps watching the products you save and sends you a notification when the price drops, so a save you are not ready to buy yet can turn into a better deal later. Cartsy’s App Store listing and website do not describe price alerts.
Cartsy runs on iPhone, the web, and Instagram DMs. Sorti runs on iPhone and Android, with your saves synced between devices.
Sorti keeps the link to the post or creator that inspired a save, and Creator Mode lets creators share their saves with affiliate links. The person who sent you to the product stays attached to it.
You mostly want to buy what you just watched, right now, and you want a list of stores and prices for every item in the video.
You save things to come back to later, not just to buy on the spot. Choose Sorti if you want price-drop alerts on saved products, if your saves include recipes, places, outfits, and articles, or if you use Android.
Cartsy is an AI shopping assistant: share a post or reel and it finds the items in it and the stores that sell them. Sorti saves everything you find, products plus recipes, places, outfits, links, and screenshots, sorts it automatically, and alerts you when a saved product drops in price. Sorti runs on iPhone and Android; Cartsy runs on iPhone, the web, and Instagram DMs.
Yes. Cartsy says it is free to use and you only pay for what you buy at the store. Sorti is free too, with no paid tier, no ads, and no limit on saves.
Not as of September 2026. Cartsy has an iPhone app, a web app at cartsy.com, and works through Instagram DMs to @cartsyapp. Sorti is available on both iPhone and Android.
Cartsy compares prices across stores when you search. Its App Store listing and website do not describe alerts when a price drops later. Sorti watches the products you save and notifies you when the price goes down.
Cartsy is built around products. For recipes, restaurants, travel ideas, and articles, Sorti files each save by what it is, with ingredients and steps for recipes and a map link for places.
★★★★★ Highly rated on the App Store and Google Play
“Easy to let Sorti use AI to sort and name my screenshots saving me a lot of time doing it myself.”
- Gali Nickel, App Store review
“I’ve been trying to find a way to organize all my bookmarks, links, videos, articles, etc. and have tried several second brain apps. But Sorti just organizes it all for me, no prompting for summaries or tags, no manual sorting. This is what all other second brain apps should have been.”
- symphonychick, App Store review
You can also explore all Sorti features or see the full comparison hub.
Sources: Cartsy on the App Store; cartsy.com.
Screenshots, Instagram saves, TikTok recipes, links from anywhere - Sorti organizes it all automatically. Free forever, iPhone and Android.
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