Liquor Barn vs The Party Source
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Liquor Barn
This app is a convenient way to discover and purchase beverages. It offers a wide selection of drinks for various occasions, making it easy to find what you need for any celebration.
- Beverage discovery
- Online purchasing
- Wide selection
- Celebration essentials
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Where Kentuckians Go To Celebrate Life
The Party Source
Browse a wide selection of wines and spirits available at a local store. Order your selections for convenient delivery or in-store pickup directly through the app.
- Browse wine and spirits
- Order for delivery
- Order for pickup
- View in-store availability
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A store located at 95 Riviera Dr, Bellevue, KY 41073, USA. With the App you can browse for the Wines and Spirits available in the store, and also order a delivery or pickup.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: The Party Source at none against Liquor Barn's shown. The Party Source also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and review sentiment (91% vs 82%). Liquor Barn's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (458 vs 125). On price, update cadence, 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.
The Party Source holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 458 and 125 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Liquor Barn's written reviews are positive against 91% of The Party Source's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on July 4, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Liquor Barn | The Party Source |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (458 ratings) | 4.7 (125 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.0% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 458 — better | 125 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Blue Rose Spirits, LLC | The Party Source Inc |
Customer experience
Liquor Barn
The Party Source
User reviews
Liquor Barn
From 458 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to order
- 🚀 Fast delivery and excellent customer service
- 👍 Solid app
- 👍 Great service and delivery
- 👍 I love the service
Room to improve
- 🐛 Credit card issue
- 🐛 Can't trust the online inventory
- 🐛 Logs You Out Every Day
- 🐛 The app takes a long time to load and every time you change your page it takes a long time to load the page
- 🐛 Doesn't always work
The Party Source
From 125 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 👍 User friendly
- 👍 Easy navigation
- 👍 Easy to search
- 🚀 Speedy ordering
Room to improve
- 🐛 App is slow
- 🐛 Buggy app
- 🐛 Laggy performance
- 🐛 App crashes on releases
- 🐛 Touch sensitivity issues
Bugs and requests
Liquor Barn
Reported bugs
7 issues- Order history isn't working
- Items that are on the shelf are often not on the app
- Difficult to navigate from one page to another
- Difficult to enter quantities desired
- App is a disaster
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- App is way too slow to navigate
- Jams up and locks down
Requested features
3 requests- Search needs memory
- Be able to ask for chilled wine
- Add rewards program to the app
The Party Source
Reported bugs
8 issues- App is egregiously slow, buggy, and lack of async makes it painful to use
- Lag is extremely extremely bad, like a 5 second hang delay where the app locks up because they aren't using async operations
- Issue when you want to remove items from your cart. If you swipe to delete it stays on this swiped action/delete for the items left in the cart until you fully exit/close the app and go back in.
- Tried to search my favorite cigar using the app and no products were found
- Needs an option to sort price high-low, low-high.
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- Also would be better if the same amount of product information on the website was included in the app.
- The app is so touch sensitive unlike any other I have ever seen on ios.
- Anytime there has been a big release on allocated liquor the app and site crash.
Requested features
3 requests- Bulk save for later
- Sort price high-low, low-high
- Include more website product information in the app
In-app purchases
Liquor Barn
No in-app purchases
The Party Source
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Liquor Barn free?
Is The Party Source free?
Which has better reviews, Liquor Barn or The Party Source?
Do Liquor Barn or The Party Source have ads?
Which is updated more often, Liquor Barn or The Party Source?
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