Comparison

Good Food Guide vs Wine Cloud

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

Head to head
About

Good Food Guide

Discover the best dining establishments across Great Britain with this comprehensive guide. Browse, search, and filter restaurants, pubs, and cafes based on cuisine, price, and rating. Save your favorites and share your dining experiences.

Highlights
  • Browse by map or list view
  • Search all entries
  • Filter by cuisine, price, and rating
  • Star favorite entries
  • Submit reviews
Features
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Founded in 1951, The Good Food Guide is the longest-standing and best-selling guide for where to eat in Great Britain. The essential companion to any discerning diner, the Guide features the best restaurants, pubs, cafés and other dining establishments, each rated Good, Very Good, Exceptional or World Class. Our network of Good Food Guide Club members share on-the-ground feedback which informs inspections from our team of 30+ anonymous industry experts. To ensure the utmost objectivity, all inspections are paid for in full by the Guide. We have never, nor will ever, accept free meals in exchange for reviews. *** To keep pace with the dynamic nature of hospitality, The Good Food Guide is now published in app format - an essential, up-to-date guide that’s always in your pocket. • Browse in map or list view • Search all entries • Filter by cuisine, price point and rating to find exactly what you need • Star entries to create your personal favourites list • Submit a review after your visit

About

Wine Cloud

Features
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Wine Cloud is a sommelier in your pocket — three considered pairings, in seconds, for the way you actually eat and drink. THREE WAYS TO PAIR — FOOD → WINE Type a dish, scan a restaurant menu, or photograph the plate in front of you. Wine Cloud responds with three pairings — region, style, and the one-line reason it works. — WINE → FOOD Got a bottle and no plan? Type the wine, or photograph the label. Wine Cloud identifies it and suggests three perfect dishes — including cuisine and why each suits what you're pouring. — EVENT → WINES Hosting a summer wedding, a Christmas dinner, a 40th? Tell Wine Cloud the occasion and get three crowd-pleasers tailored to the mood, the guests, and the food likely on the table. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Every recommendation comes with a confidence rating, a one-line "why," and a short Sommelier's Note worth actually reading. No discount codes. No 80,000-bottle database to sift through. Just the kind of advice you'd get leaning across a bar at a fine restaurant. BUILT BY WINE PEOPLE Built by people who've spent decades in the wine trade — paired with modern AI to give advice that's quick, considered, and genuinely useful. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account required. No analytics. No tracking. No ads. Photos and prompts are processed for your pairing and discarded — never stored, never sold, never used for training. PAIR FOR THE WAY YOU EAT — A Tuesday-night supper or a once-a-year tasting menu — Wine Cloud scales across both. — Save pairings to your device and share them when the conversation comes up. — Free. No login. No clutter. Pour something. Open Wine Cloud.

Screenshots

Good Food Guide4 screens
Wine Cloud4 screens

Verdict

The call

Good Food Guide and Wine Cloud are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Good Food Guide versus Wine Cloud: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGood Food GuideWine Cloud
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews16.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB26 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPostgate 51 LimitedKRISTOPHER ADRIAN CATTANEO

In-app purchases

None

Good Food Guide

No in-app purchases

None

Wine Cloud

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Good Food Guide free?
Good Food Guide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wine Cloud free?
Wine Cloud is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Good Food Guide or Wine Cloud have ads?
Neither Good Food Guide nor Wine Cloud shows ads.

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