Bevvy vs Open Bar Review
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bevvy
Explore the world of whisky with this comprehensive digital companion. Scan bottle labels for instant information, manage your collection, and discover new favorites. Personalized recommendations cater to all levels of whisky appreciation.
- Scan whisky bottle labels
- Manage whisky collection
- Curate favorite drams lists
- Personalized recommendations
- Discover new whiskies
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Bevvy is the world's best whisky app, and the ultimate digital whisky companion. Whisky lovers can instantly access a wealth of information by scanning a bottle's label, as well as managing their whisky collection or curating lists of their favourite drams. Over time, the app becomes familiar with the user's flavour profile, suggesting recommendations to guide both novices and connoisseurs on their whisky journey.
Open Bar Review
Log and rate your favorite bourbons, whiskeys, and scotches. Share your tasting notes and discoveries with friends in a social drink review community. Discover new spirits through shared experiences.
- Log drink favorites
- Rate spirits
- Add descriptions
- Share with friends
- Social review experience
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Review and keep track of your Bourbon, Whiskey & Scotch favorites. This app allows users to take note of the bourbons they drink, give them ratings and descriptions and share their favorites with their friends in this social bourbon-review experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Open Bar Review at 5.0 against Bevvy's 4.3. Open Bar Review also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). Bevvy's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Open Bar Review holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bevvy has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Bevvy ships an update fortnightly, Open Bar Review every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Bevvy | Open Bar Review |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Bevvy Limited | jason hanrahan |
Customer experience
Bevvy
Open Bar Review
Bugs and requests
Bevvy
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes when adding bottles
- Cannot add bottles to a list
- No button to submit review on iPhone
- Login/registration issues
- Scanning not working
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- App freezes
- Scrolling disabled on iPhone SE (1st gen)
- Cannot access internet for scans
- Error when logging in
- App support link is dead
Requested features
13 requests- Allow adding duplicate bottles
- Ability to reorder lists
- Search 'My Lists' for specific criteria (region, category, price, rating)
- Add a 'save' button for reviews
- Add a home button for easier navigation
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- Ability to scan barcodes
- Ability to delete previous scans
- Expand database to include more global spirits (Bourbon, Rye, Rum)
- Allow users to create their own entries for missing bottles
- Improve search prioritization
- Add a rum section
- Show number of bottles on Home page dashboard
- Improve collection management (rename, sort, filter, view more than 20 bottles)
Open Bar Review
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bevvy
No in-app purchases
Open Bar Review
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Bevvy free?
Is Open Bar Review free?
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Do Bevvy or Open Bar Review have ads?
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