Bottle King vs Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bottle King
Browse and shop New Jersey's largest selection of wine, beer, and spirits. Discover award-winning selections and enjoy convenient shopping from a top national retailer.
- Shop wine, beer, and spirits
- NJ's largest selection
- Award-winning retailer
- Discount wine store
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Shop at NJ Largest Retailer of Wine, Beer, Spirits. Wine Enthusiast Top 50 National Retailer, Best Wine Store by NJ Monthly Magazine, GQ Magazine Top 10 Discount Wine Stores in America
Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace
Experience a full-service supermarket offering a wide selection of high-quality meats, traditional Italian deli dishes, fresh produce, and seafood. Discover imported cheeses, house-made pasta, baked goods, and candies. Enjoy a unique food shopping experience with a dedication to delicious food and friendly service.
- Full-service meat department
- Traditional Italian deli counter
- Fresh seafood and live lobsters
- Extensive cheese selection
- House-made pasta and baked goods
- Italian bakery and candy counter
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Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace first opened our doors in 1998 in East Meadow. Since then, we now have multiple locations in New York and New Jersey. We provide a full-service supermarket to give our customers the best possible food shopping experience at the best value. Customers have come to love our various departments including a meat department with a selection of the best steaks, poultry, roasts, and Italian sausage made daily, a deli counter with dozens of dishes made using traditional Italian recipes and a produce department with a large variety of domestic, imported, local, and organic fruits and vegetables. Each location has a seafood department with live lobsters and freshly caught seafood. Our aisles are stocked with an assortment of prepared dinners and a cheese selection with hundreds of different cheeses from around the world. Our mozzarella machines are imported directly from Italy. Come see our pasta rooms where you can watch fresh ravioli and pasta prepared daily. We even have an Italian bakery where customers can enjoy their favorite baked goods and a candy counter with sweets and treats all house-made. With an uncompromising dedication to delicious food and friendly customer service, our customers are always treated like family at Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace. We believe that we are not just a supermarket, we are an experience. So stop by! Eat, sing, shop at Uncle Giuseppe’s Marketplace.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace at 4.7 against Bottle King's 2.8. Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 24%) and ratings volume (683 vs 20). Bottle King's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, update cadence, 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.
Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace has 683 ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of Bottle King's written reviews are positive against 63% of Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace's.
Bottle King ships an update every 2 months, Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on August 12, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bottle King | Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.8 (20 ratings) | 4.7 (683 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.8% of reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 683 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | The Wine Buyer | Uncle G's Management Corp |
Customer experience
Bottle King
Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace
Bugs and requests
Bottle King
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace
Reported bugs
6 issues- App crashes upon reopening
- Login errors with new accounts
- Contact information wiped out during checkout process
- Payment processing requires multiple attempts
- Address and contact info must be re-entered multiple times
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- Slow order placement compared to website
Requested features
7 requests- Apple Pay and modern payment integration
- Save credit card information for faster checkout
- Accept Uncle Giuseppe's gift cards as payment
- Improved app search and navigation
- Modernized user interface and design
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- Better order history and past order retrieval
- Expanded online bakery product availability
In-app purchases
Bottle King
No in-app purchases
Uncle Giuseppe's Marketplace
No in-app purchases
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