Finding Beer vs hopyard
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Finding Beer
Discover breweries and beer styles worldwide with this comprehensive search engine. Easily find local or international spots matching your preferences, from popular hazy IPAs to classic Czech Pilsners.
- Brewery search engine
- Color-coded rating scale
- Rich database of breweries
- Discover beer styles
- Global travel guide
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Finding Beer is a brewery search engine to find the best breweries wherever you travel. With a straightforward color-coded scale and a rich database of breweries and beer styles, it's easy to connect with places that match your preferences. Whether you're exploring local spots or venturing abroad, the app helps you discover breweries making popular hazy IPAs to classic Czech Pilsners. It's a practical tool to guide you to quality beer and great brewery experiences, no matter where you are.
hopyard
Discover nearby breweries with ease. This app provides a simple map interface to locate breweries, brewpubs, and bottle shops. Access public information on thousands of locations for your next beer adventure.
- Discover nearby breweries
- Search brewery map
- View brewery information
- Mark destinations
- Simple, no-fluff interface
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Finding breweries has never been easier! Thousands of breweries available at your fingertips. Find yourself browsing for your next beer wherever you are! Open the app, search the map, mark your destination, DONE. Simplicity has finally come to the beer drinking community. No bloat, no fluff, just breweries. All of the brewery data is fantastically served by Open Brewery DB. Open Brewery DB is a free dataset and API with public information on breweries, cideries, brewpubs, and bottle shops. It is OBDB's belief that public information should be freely accessible for the betterment of the beer community and the happiness of web developers and data analysts. That is why we created hopyard; to give a pretty face to a beautiful backend.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Finding Beer at 5.0 against hopyard's 4.8. hopyard's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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.
Finding Beer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Finding Beer ships an update every 2 months, hopyard every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Finding Beer | hopyard |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (11 ratings) — better | 4.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Reed Emmons | Sudden Development, LLC |
Customer experience
Finding Beer
hopyard
In-app purchases
Finding Beer
No in-app purchases
hopyard
No in-app purchases
