Bevvy vs Whiskey Rater
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.
Whiskey Rater
Privately catalog your whiskey experiences offline. Scan bottle labels to extract details, rate drams, add tasting notes, and organize your collection. Features a collection dashboard and export options.
- Offline-first whiskey cataloging
- On-device label scanner
- Rate drams on a 1-10 scale
- Add tasting notes and flavor tags
- Collection stats dashboard
- Export and backup options
- Wishlist mode
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Whiskey Rater is the private, offline-first way to catalog every whisky you try — bourbon, scotch, rye, Irish, Japanese, and beyond. Snap a photo of the bottle and let the built-in label scanner extract the name, distillery, age, ABV, and region for you. Rate each dram on a 1–10 scale, add your tasting notes, tag the flavour profile, and build a collection you can browse, sort, and search. Everything stays on your device. No account. No cloud. No ads. FEATURES • Label scanner — point your camera at a bottle and pull out the name, distillery, age, ABV, and region with on-device Apple Vision. No network required. • Rich detail for every bottle — name, distillery, type, age, ABV, region, cask type, price paid, currency, flavour tags, and unlimited tasting notes. • Rate on a 1–10 scale with taps or VoiceOver-friendly adjustable controls. • Multiple photos per bottle — front label, back label, and anything else worth remembering. • Wishlist mode — track bottles you want to try, then promote them to your collection when you finally taste them. • Collection stats dashboard — see your average rating, favourite distilleries, type breakdown, and how your collection has grown. • Filter, sort, and search by name, distillery, type, rating, region, favourites, or status. • Share your bottles — generate a beautiful tasting card to send to friends. • Export and back up — CSV, JSON, or a printable PDF catalogue. Import any time to restore. • Dark mode, dynamic type, full VoiceOver support, and a completely localised Spanish experience. • Privacy you control — optional anonymous usage analytics helps us improve the app, but you can opt out any time in Settings. No account, no tracking, no ads. Whether you're a casual sipper keeping track of what you've enjoyed or a serious enthusiast building a tasting library, Whiskey Rater is your whisky journal — private, offline, and always with you. Slàinte.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Whiskey Rater at 4.8 against Bevvy's 4.3. Whiskey Rater also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 74%). Bevvy's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (16 vs 4). On price, ads, 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.
Whiskey Rater holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 74% of Bevvy's written reviews are positive against 100% of Whiskey Rater's.
Bevvy ships an update fortnightly, Whiskey Rater every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bevvy | Whiskey Rater |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (16 ratings) | 4.8 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 83 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Bevvy Limited | Chris Silver |
Customer experience
Bevvy
Whiskey Rater
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)
Whiskey Rater
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bevvy
No in-app purchases
Whiskey Rater
No in-app purchases







