Comparison

WID vs Star Wine List

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

Head to head
About

WID

This app uses NFC technology to read electronic chips on bottles, revealing exclusive content like vineyard details, winemaking stories, and nutritional information. Users can build a digital library of identified bottles, rate them, and track consumption, even offline.

Highlights
  • Contactless NFC reading
  • Exclusive bottle content
  • Digital wine library
  • Offline bottle access
  • Bottle rating and commenting
  • Cross-device library sync
  • Counterfeit detection
Features
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Every bottle has its story. WID tells it to you. Hold your phone close to the WID label: the reading starts by itself. Within seconds, you know whether your product is identified and you can open its page. Used in 103 countries, the WID app supports the estates, châteaux and houses that fit their bottles with a discreet, unique and secure electronic chip. VERIFY IN A SINGLE GESTURE • Contactless NFC reading, with no QR code to aim at • A clear result, right on your screen EXCLUSIVE CONTENT Each estate chooses what it shares with you, for example: • the vineyard and a map of its plots • the wine story, work in the vines, winemaking and ageing • images, videos and food pairings • ingredients and nutrition information YOUR WINE LIBRARY FOLLOWS YOU • Find every identified bottle, even offline • With an account, rate and comment on your bottles and mark the ones you have consumed • Find your wine library on your other devices FOR PROFESSIONALS Producers and retailers have a dedicated area to register and associate the chips on their products. GOOD TO KNOW Identification requires an NFC-compatible phone and access to your location: each reading is dated and located, which helps detect counterfeits.

About

Star Wine List

Discover top wine bars and restaurants globally, curated by wine professionals. Explore by map, guides, or lists, and view updated wine lists. Search for specific wines to find where they are served.

Highlights
  • Curated wine bar and restaurant guides
  • Interactive map discovery
  • City-specific wine lists
  • Searchable wine database
  • Wine professional recommendations
Features
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Star Wine List is the guide to great wine bars and wine restaurants. We started in Stockholm in 2017 are now rapidly growing across the world. In every city wine professionals select their favourite places to drink wine. The app allows you to find great wine places either through maps, curated wine guides or lists like the best wine places in Los Angeles and Cape Town. You can also read the updated wine lists of most of the places we recommend, and even search for a particular wine and see where it is listed.

Screenshots

WID4 screens
Star Wine List4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Star Wine List at 5.0 against WID's 4.6. Star Wine List also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months). WID's advantage is monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (40 vs 5). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Star Wine List holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WID has 40 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WID ships an update every 4 months, Star Wine List every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
WID versus Star Wine List: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWIDStar Wine List
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (40 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings40 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB43 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperWID GroupStar Wine List

Customer experience

WID

All ratings40 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%

Star Wine List

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

WID

No in-app purchases

None

Star Wine List

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WID free?
WID is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Star Wine List free?
Star Wine List is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WID or Star Wine List?
Star Wine List is rated higher. WID averages 4.6 out of 5 from 40 ratings, while Star Wine List averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do WID or Star Wine List have ads?
Neither WID nor Star Wine List shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WID or Star Wine List?
WID ships an update every 4 months, and Star Wine List every 2 months. Most recently, WID was updated on November 6, 2026 and Star Wine List on November 3, 2026.

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