Comparison

Somm Says vs BevNote

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

Head to head
About

Somm Says

Learn wine tasting with friends and family through a fun, social, and educational game. Challenge others to guess wine characteristics based on expert tasting notes and receive personalized recommendations from real wine professionals.

Highlights
  • Play digital wine tasting games
  • Learn wine tasting skills
  • Add friends and track favorite wines
  • Request sommelier recommendations
  • Follow wine professionals and producers
  • Learn detailed wine information
  • Track wines you love
Features
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Finally! There is an app that can let you learn wine tasting with your friends and family while playing a fun, social, educational game together. Each wine tasting game on Somm Says is created by real, practicing Sommeliers or Winemakers. Pick a wine, and challenge your friends to see who can guess what the Somm Says about a wine's aroma, body, acidity, tannins, oak, sugar, and flavor. Each round provides instant feedback by comparing your answer to the Sommelier's or Winemaker's own tasting note. Somm Says is a fun, free way to learn about wine from real wine professionals. With more than 1,400 wine tasting games from 200+ wine professionals, you can have fun with your friends while learning how your palate compares to both your friends and real wine professionals. With Somm Says, you can connect with your local sommeliers and request personal recommendations based on your own unique preferences. You can: - Play a digital wine tasting game with your friends to learn wine tasting and improve your wine tasting skill - Add friends and keep up to date on all your friend's favorite wines - Request and receive a recommendation from a real sommelier - Follow your favorite wine shop, sommelier, and wine producer to get notified about new wines - Learn about the wines you drink, including bottle counts, harvest dates, winemakers, and more - Keep track of the wines you love as you learn more about how to taste wine like a sommelier

About

BevNote

Features
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BevNote allows you to create and group wines by flights or lists, create tastings and assign notes, and then share all that data with colleagues and clients in groups and chats. You can also edit flights on the fly right from your phone, and generate shareable PDF's on-demand, or upload data from external sources. Our ethos is human-centric - not company centric, so your data is not locked to a license and everything comes with you should you ever change companies or roles. You just update your app accordingly. We hope that this platform will provide you a way to more efficiently organize and share your data, and facilitate direct and easy communication with your clients, ultimately saving you time and making you more money.

Screenshots

Somm Says4 screens
BevNote1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Somm Says at every 2 weeks against BevNote's every 3 months. Somm Says also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Somm Says ships an update every 2 weeks, BevNote every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Somm Says versus BevNote: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSomm SaysBevNote
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (21 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings21 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB43 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperSomm Says IncBrian Aderer

In-app purchases

None

Somm Says

No in-app purchases

None

BevNote

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Somm Says free?
Somm Says is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is BevNote free?
BevNote is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Somm Says or BevNote have ads?
Neither Somm Says nor BevNote shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Somm Says or BevNote?
Somm Says ships an update every 2 weeks, and BevNote every 3 months. Most recently, Somm Says was updated on June 1, 2026 and BevNote on September 9, 2026.

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