Comparison

WineGPS vs vinopad+

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

Head to head
About

WineGPS

Easily locate your wine bottles within your cellar. Search by various criteria, manage your collection, and visualize your inventory with charts and maps. Create shopping lists and custom reports for your wine storage.

Highlights
  • No-frills wine searching
  • Shopping cart creation
  • Inventory charts and heat maps
  • Geo-location map of wine origins
  • Customizable ad hoc reports
  • Bin capacity management
  • Offline mode
Features
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You liked it, bought it and brought it home. What happened to it after that? Of course you added it to a Cellar Tracker® location and bin, right? WineGPS quickly searches for your bottle and lets you know where it is. NO-FRILLS SEARCHING Searches are case insensitive and understand partial words. Search for wines by producer, vintage, varietal, vineyard, AVA, designation or country. You can search in more than one Location: Cellar, Under The Stairs, Wine Storage Locker, the choice is yours. Sort search results by Available, Vintage, Purchase Date and more. SHOPPING CART Build a cart full of the wines you want to drink. Print the cart or import it into a spreadsheet application. CHARTS Charts for Purchases, Consumed, Aged by Purchase Date. Heat Map to visualize what wines you have and when they are ready to drink. GEO LOCATION World map with pins marking where your wines are from. Tapping a pin displays a map of the appellation and its wines. AD HOC REPORTS Design and run custom reports of your cellar. Save and edit reports to get them just right. View the report on your device. Print or import reports using the cloud. BIN MANAGEMENT Set the capacity of your bins. This feature compares the capacity and the contents of your bins. Quickly discover where you can add more bottles. Capacity syncs across all your Apple devices using your iCloud account. TUTORIAL and SETTINGS Tutorial is always with you as a menu item. Change the language of WineGPS to English, French or Spanish. Bottle identifiers or barcodes are optional. If you don’t use them, you can turn them off. Enable offline mode to use WineGPS when there is no network coverage available. REQUIREMENTS You must have a Cellar Tracker® account before you use WineGPS. WineGPS cannot be used to add new wine or relocate wine in your Cellar Tracker® account. WineGPS does remove bottles from your Cellar Tracker® account when you mark them as consumed. SUPPORT Please contact us at WineGPSHelp@gmail.com with suggestions and questions.

About

vinopad+

This app provides an always up-to-date digital wine list for iPads, powered by CellarTracker.com. It enhances guest experience, educates staff, and helps sell more wine by including bottle images, reviews, and tasting notes. Inventory management is simple via desktop or smartphone.

Highlights
  • Always up-to-date digital wine list
  • Powered by CellarTracker.com
  • Enhances guest experience
  • Educates staff
  • Increases wine sales
  • Customizable with logo and pricing
  • Includes bottle images, reviews, and tasting notes
  • Easy inventory management
Features
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Gone forever are outdated wine lists, incorrect vintages, out of stocks and printing costs. vinopad provides an always up to date wine list presented on the iPad and powered by CellarTracker.com the world's largest database of wines. Enhance your guest experience, educate your staff and sell more wine. Most users see a 25% increase in wine sales. Each iPad is customized with your logo, wine list, pricing, vintage and includes bottle images, professional reviews and tasting notes for each bottle and glass. Your wine inventory is easily managed by adding/deleteing/changing vintages in seconds from a desktop or smartphone anywhere.

Screenshots

WineGPS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: vinopad+ at Free against WineGPS's $3.99. vinopad+ also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). WineGPS's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

vinopad+ is free to download; WineGPS costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for WineGPS against 5.0 for vinopad+. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

WineGPS ships an update every 3 weeks, vinopad+ every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
WineGPS versus vinopad+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWineGPSvinopad+
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPad
Requires iOS18.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB4 MB
Age rating+1717+
DeveloperAl DynakSternberg Consulting LLC

Customer experience

WineGPS

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

vinopad+

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

WineGPS

No in-app purchases

None

vinopad+

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WineGPS free?
WineGPS costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is vinopad+ free?
vinopad+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, WineGPS or vinopad+?
WineGPS and vinopad+ are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 3 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do WineGPS or vinopad+ have ads?
Neither WineGPS nor vinopad+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, WineGPS or vinopad+?
WineGPS ships an update every 3 weeks, and vinopad+ every 9 days. Most recently, WineGPS was updated on September 23, 2026 and vinopad+ on June 1, 2026.

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