WID vs Star Wine List
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WID
Verify the authenticity of bottles using NFC technology. Access detailed information about provenance, history, grape varieties, and maturation advice for wines.
- NFC bottle authentication
- Verify bottle authenticity
- Access provenance details
- View grape varieties
- Get maturation advice
- Check bottle certificate
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This mobile application is available for smartphones equipped with NFC technology. It allows the consumers to authenticate a bottle by approaching their phone close to the security label. After the WID database has been consulted, the consumer receives a message to validate or invalidate the bottle’s certificate. The user can access a set of information selected by the producer about the provenance, history, know-how and grape varieties along with tasting and advice on how to let the wine mature.
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.
- Curated wine bar and restaurant guides
- Interactive map discovery
- City-specific wine lists
- Searchable wine database
- Wine professional recommendations
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Star Wine List at 5.0 against WID's 4.7. 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 (31 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Star Wine List holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WID has 31 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
WID ships an update every 4 months, Star Wine List every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WID | Star Wine List |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | WID | Star Wine List |
Customer experience
WID
Star Wine List
In-app purchases
WID
No in-app purchases
Star Wine List
No in-app purchases
