Vine Spectator vs Restaurant Awards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Vine Spectator
Digitally organize your wine collection with a simple and beautiful interface. Sort bottles by year, grape variety, or color, and use custom tags for further organization. Keep a catalog of your favorite wines in your pocket.
- Digital wine cellar organization
- Sort by year, grape, or color
- Custom tag organization
- Track enjoyed wines
- Mobile cataloging
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Vine Spectator makes it easy for you or your favorite wine collector to digitally organize their cellar using a simple and beautiful interface. Wine bottles can be sorted by year, grape variety, or color with the tap of a button. Use custom tags to further organize your collection. There's even a place to revisit the bottles you've already enjoyed, just tap on the wine glass! With Vine Spectator, you can now keep a catalog of your favorite and most prized wines in your pocket, everywhere you go!
Restaurant Awards
Discover restaurants globally recognized for their outstanding wine selections. This app provides access to over 3,800 award-winning establishments across 50 U.S. states and 80+ countries, offering a curated wine experience. Explore restaurant news, chef profiles, and editor recommendations.
- Search award-winning restaurants
- Global restaurant directory
- Discover exceptional wine lists
- Restaurant news and articles
- Chef and sommelier profiles
- Editor's top picks
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Wine Spectator's Restaurant Awards app will help you find restaurants with exceptional wine lists. Every featured dining destination - covering all 50 U.S. states and 80+ countries - has earned a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award for its dedication to wine. This app allows you to search through more than 3,800 award-winning restaurants to help you discover the ultimate wine experience. You’ll also find articles featuring the latest restaurant news, chef and sommelier profiles, our editors’ top picks and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Restaurant Awards at every 2 months against Vine Spectator's every 5 months. Restaurant Awards also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 2). Vine Spectator's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.0 for Vine Spectator against 3.0 for Restaurant Awards. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Restaurant Awards has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Vine Spectator ships an update every 5 months, Restaurant Awards every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 10, 2026 and August 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Vine Spectator | Restaurant Awards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 3.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Philip Loury | M. Shanken Communications, Inc. |
Customer experience
Vine Spectator
Restaurant Awards
In-app purchases
Vine Spectator
No in-app purchases
Restaurant Awards
No in-app purchases
Questions
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