Restaurant Awards vs Spectrum Wine Auctions
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.
Spectrum Wine Auctions
This app provides access to extensive wine auction resources, allowing users to search, view, and bid on fine wines directly from their mobile devices. Users can track their bids, save searches, and manage their profiles and billing information.
- Search auctions and sessions
- View auction lot images
- Filter searches by wine details
- Place bids on lots
- Track bids and watched lots
- Save bids and search phrases
- Update profile and billing
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Spectrum Wine Auctions is committed to offering buyers and sellers alike the most accessible and expansive auction opportunities for what is simply the world’s greatest consumable and collectible product—wine. Now you can have complete access to all of Spectrum Wine’s resources and functions through your iPad and iPhone. The Spectrum Wine Auctions application makes finding and buying fine wine easier than ever! * Search auctions and sessions. * View images of auction lots. * Filter searches by bottle size, type, vintage, and more. * Place bids on lots. * Track lots you have bid on, have consigned, or are watching. * Save bids to your device to place later. * Save your favorite search phrases to your device. * Update profile and billing information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Spectrum Wine Auctions at 4.8 against Restaurant Awards's 3.0. Spectrum Wine Auctions also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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.
Spectrum Wine Auctions holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Restaurant Awards's written reviews are positive against 100% of Spectrum Wine Auctions's.
Restaurant Awards ships an update every 2 months, Spectrum Wine Auctions every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Restaurant Awards | Spectrum Wine Auctions |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (10 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | M. Shanken Communications, Inc. | Spectrum Wine Auctions |
Customer experience
Restaurant Awards
Spectrum Wine Auctions
In-app purchases
Restaurant Awards
No in-app purchases
Spectrum Wine Auctions
No in-app purchases
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