Restaurant Awards vs SproutQR
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
SproutQR
Instantly access restaurant menus by scanning QR codes. Enjoy features like bookmarking and searching, presented in a visually appealing book-like interface with page-flip animations.
- Scan menu QR codes
- Instantly view menus
- Bookmarking functionality
- Search menu items
- Book-like interface
- Page flip animations
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Scan any SproutQR menu QR code and instantly pull up the menu for that location! All the great features you've used on the web—including bookmarking and searching!—now enhanced with a beautiful book-like experience with page flip animations!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: SproutQR at 5.0 against Restaurant Awards's 3.0. SproutQR also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). Restaurant Awards's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
SproutQR holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Restaurant Awards has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Restaurant Awards ships an update every 2 months, SproutQR monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Restaurant Awards | SproutQR |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.5.7 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | M. Shanken Communications, Inc. | BinWise, Inc. |
Customer experience
Restaurant Awards
SproutQR
In-app purchases
Restaurant Awards
No in-app purchases
SproutQR
No in-app purchases
