The Sortbase alternative with a real free plan
Sortbase has no free plan: a 7-day trial with a card, then $10 a month. TidyChats gives you folders, search, export and bulk delete for free, with no card and no account, and Premium costs less.
The short version
- Sortbase is subscription-only: a 7-day trial that needs your card, then $10 a month or $100 a year. TidyChats is free to use with no card, and Premium is $6.99 a month, $49 a year or $99 once.
- Sortbase requires signing in and syncs your chats through its cloud. TidyChats needs no account for free features, and conversation content stays in your browser.
- TidyChats exports any chat to PDF, Markdown, TXT, JSON or Word and bulk deletes old chats for free. Sortbase's site doesn't list export or bulk delete.
Features side by side
- TidyChats
- Yes, no time limit
- Sortbase
- No: 7-day trial, card required
- TidyChats
- No, for every free feature
- Sortbase
- Yes, sign-in required
- TidyChats
- In your browser
- Sortbase
- Synced to Sortbase's cloud backend
- TidyChats
- PDF, Markdown, TXT, JSON, Word free; ZIP with Premium
- Sortbase
- Not listed on sortbase.ai
- TidyChats
- Free on ChatGPT and Claude, with preview and 10-second undo
- Sortbase
- Not listed on sortbase.ai
- TidyChats
- Unlimited, 120+ ready-made, {{variables}}, chains
- Sortbase
- Own library with {{variables}}
- TidyChats
- Unlimited nested folders
- Sortbase
- Unlimited nested folders
- TidyChats
- Free per AI; all four at once with Premium
- Sortbase
- Across all four AIs
- TidyChats
- Summary plus your uploaded files, into a new chat
- Sortbase
- Whole thread sent as an attachment
- TidyChats
- Chat memory meter, answer-ready alert, outline, bookmarks, Claude usage
- Sortbase
- Not listed on sortbase.ai
Pricing side by side
- TidyChats
- Yes, folders, search, export, prompts, bulk delete
- Sortbase
- None (7-day trial, card required)
- TidyChats
- $6.99
- Sortbase
- $10
- TidyChats
- $49
- Sortbase
- $100
- TidyChats
- $99 once
- Sortbase
- Not offered
- TidyChats
- All four AIs
- Sortbase
- All four AIs
- TidyChats
- 14-day money-back guarantee
- Sortbase
- Cancel during the trial
Why people switch to TidyChats
Start without a card
Install TidyChats and use folders, search, export and bulk delete right away. No trial clock, no card, no sign-in.
Pay less, or pay once
Premium is $6.99 a month or $49 a year, about half of Sortbase's yearly price. Or pay $99 once and never renew, which costs less than a single year of Sortbase.
Your conversations stay with you
TidyChats keeps chat content and its search index in your browser. Nothing has to go to a cloud backend for folders and search to work.
Export and clean-up included
Save any chat as PDF, Markdown, TXT, JSON or Word, and delete hundreds of old ChatGPT or Claude chats with a preview and undo. Both are free.
When Sortbase might suit you: If your main need is sending an entire thread from one AI to another word for word, Sortbase's one-click transfer does that directly. TidyChats carries a chat over as a summary plus your uploaded files.
Questions
Yes. Sortbase has no free plan, only a 7-day trial that needs a card. TidyChats' folders, full-text search, single-chat export, bulk delete and saved prompts are free with no card and no account.
Try TidyChats free, no card needed
Folders, search, export and bulk delete for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok. Premium is $6.99 a month for all four.
Sortbase plans and features are taken from sortbase.ai as of October 2026 and may change. "Not listed" means we couldn't find the feature on its website. Spot something out of date? Email [email protected] and we'll fix it.