Comparison

ClimaVinea vs Recs

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

Head to head
About

ClimaVinea

Explore the renowned wines and terroirs of Burgundy with detailed interactive vineyard maps and producer profiles. Discover historical context, appellation characteristics, and navigate the vineyards with a GPS function.

Highlights
  • Interactive vineyard maps
  • Producer profiles and wine lists
  • Historical and cultural information
  • Powerful search engine
  • GPS vineyard navigation
  • Bilingual (French/English)
Features
Currently charting
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A comprehensive guide to the great wines of Burgundy, with detailed interactive maps of its renowned vineyards (known as climats), from Montrachet to Chambertin. Includes a guide to the top producers and a GPS function for your visits to the vineyards. Features of ClimaVinea: • An interactive version of Sylvain Pitiot’s authoritative new maps, published in his book The Climats and Lieux-Dits of the Great Vineyards of Burgundy (3rd edition 2019). Includes the most recent scholarship on the origins of parcel names from Marie-Hélène Landrieu. • The Who’s Who of producers: profiles and wine lists for 140 elite estates and negociants, to help you build a cellar and make informed choices from restaurant wine lists. The list is entirely impartial (there are no ads or sales linked to this app), the selection being based on the collective judgments of the best international critics over several vintages. (Not a comprehensive list of all producers.) • An encyclopedic reference that will satisfy your curiosity and help you deepen your knowledge of the history, culture, and vineyards that produce great wines of Burgundy—knowledge that enhances the pleasure of exploring and drinking them. • A powerful search engine helps you find reliable, precise information. Whether you are a professional, connoisseur, collector, or student of wine, with ClimaVinea you can find a vineyard on the map and look up its surface area and other facts, check whether a producer makes a certain wine, discover the characteristics of an appellation, and more. • A GPS function guides you through the vineyards when you visit Burgundy. • Includes both French and English versions, with the option to switch back and forth. - A must have for anyone seriously interested in the wines of Burgundy.

About

Recs

Features
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A home for your taste. The things you love are scattered across the internet - movies on Netflix, restaurants on Maps, books on Goodreads, articles in tabs you'll never reopen. Recs brings them together into a beautiful collection you can share. Recs is not a bookmarking tool. Bookmarks are storage - things you save and forget. Recs is curation - things you choose because they're worth recommending. Think Spotify playlists, but for everything. A Rec is anything worth recommending - a movie, a restaurant, an article, a product, a place. A Deck is a curated collection of Recs around a theme - something you're proud to share. Save from anywhere - one tap from any app using the share button. Every Rec becomes a visual card with image, title, and domain logo. Create Decks, follow people with great taste, and discover Recs from people you trust. People don't follow links. They follow taste.

Screenshots

ClimaVinea4 screens
Recs4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Recs at Free against ClimaVinea's $39.99. Recs also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months). ClimaVinea's advantage is chart position (#98 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Recs is free to download; ClimaVinea costs $39.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ClimaVinea ships an update every 6 months, Recs weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
ClimaVinea versus Recs: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClimaVineaRecs
Price$39.99Free — better
Rating4.9 (400 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings400 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#98 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size343 MB44 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperVIAVINEAPraveen Ilangovan

Bugs and requests

ClimaVinea

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Dropdown menus won't stay open
  • App restarts completely on exit
  • English language setting resets
  • App not installing after purchase
  • Download fails midway

Requested features

7 requests
  • Add Chinese language support
  • Include Chablis, Côte Chalonnaise, Mâconnais
  • Add more producers (e.g., Bizot)
  • Android version availability
  • iPad version for comfortable reading
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  • Add new winemakers
  • Add missing Domaines (e.g., Jadot, Latour, Leflaive, etc.)

Recs

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

ClimaVinea

No in-app purchases

None

Recs

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ClimaVinea free?
ClimaVinea costs $39.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Recs free?
Recs is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ClimaVinea or Recs have ads?
Neither ClimaVinea nor Recs shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ClimaVinea or Recs?
ClimaVinea ships an update every 6 months, and Recs weekly. Most recently, ClimaVinea was updated on October 26, 2026 and Recs on October 24, 2026.

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