Comparison

Five Bars vs Whiskey Rater

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

Head to head
About

Five Bars

Discover and log your favorite chocolate bars with this app. Keep a personal record of chocolates you've tried and find new ones to enjoy.

Highlights
  • Track chocolate bars
  • Discover new chocolates
  • Personal chocolate log
  • Food & Drink category
Features
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Obsessed with good chocolate? Track and discover bars with Five Bars!

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Five Bars4 screens
Whiskey Rater4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Five Bars at every 5 weeks against Whiskey Rater's every 8 months. Five Bars also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Five Bars against 5.0 for Whiskey Rater. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Five Bars ships an update every 5 weeks, Whiskey Rater every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Five Bars versus Whiskey Rater: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFive BarsWhiskey Rater
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB13 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperStephanie OboddaChris Silver

Customer experience

Five Bars

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Whiskey Rater

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

In-app purchases

None

Five Bars

No in-app purchases

None

Whiskey Rater

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Five Bars free?
Five Bars is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Whiskey Rater free?
Whiskey Rater is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Five Bars or Whiskey Rater?
Five Bars and Whiskey Rater are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 3 ratings respectively.
Do Five Bars or Whiskey Rater have ads?
Neither Five Bars nor Whiskey Rater shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Five Bars or Whiskey Rater?
Five Bars ships an update every 5 weeks, and Whiskey Rater every 8 months. Most recently, Five Bars was updated on October 5, 2026 and Whiskey Rater on October 6, 2026.

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