Comparison

DJOL vs Wine Brats

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

Head to head
About

DJOL

Discover the best food and drink specials in your area. Find restaurant deals any day of the week and plan your outings. Currently available in 5 South African locations with plans to expand.

Highlights
  • Find food and drink specials
  • Discover restaurant deals
  • View daily specials
  • Location-based search
  • Expanding to new cities
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Bringing you all the food and drinks specials near you. Find the best restaurant deals before you go out. View all the specials any day of the week and have a djol... We are in 5 locations across South Africa and expanding soon to your city if we aren't already there.

About

Wine Brats

Features
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Search any restaurant wine list in seconds. Wine Brats turns a restaurant wine list into a menu you can search, sort and filter. Photograph the pages, import a PDF or paste a link. AI reads each wine and its printed price, you check the result, and the wines are added to that restaurant's list in Wine Brats for the next guest. ADD A WINE LIST • Full-screen camera: shoot page after page • Choose photos from your library • Import a PDF from Files, or share a PDF from Safari, Mail or Files to Wine Brats • Paste a link to the restaurant's online list • Combine photos, PDFs and links for one menu, and review the wines before you save SEARCH THE LIST • Restaurant list prices, converted to the currency you choose • Ratings and average retail prices, mainly from Wine-Searcher, with a Buy on Wine-Searcher link • Sort and filter by wine type, grape, region, country, vintage, price, rating and serving size • See the menu page each wine came from, usually with the wine circled • Drink-or-decant suggestions, and other restaurants that list the same wine FIND A RESTAURANT • Menus near you, sorted by distance • Search by name, or browse wines and restaurants as a list or on a map • No list yet? Add it yourself MAKE IT YOURS • Save wines and restaurants to Favorites • Rate the wines you save from 1 to 10 • Share a wine, or share Wine Brats with friends • Report a wrong price, a photo or anything that shouldn't be there • Send us a bug report or an idea from the Home screen YOUR CELLAR • Keep a personal inventory, bottle counts, purchase prices and tasting notes • Type your wines, take photos, import a file or paste a link, then check before saving • Record drinking a bottle, with Undo, and keep finished wines in your history • Keep your cellar private or share it with specific people • Share a cellar link, add people by email, and see ratings and retail prices where available • Dictate wines with an optional voice note; microphone access is requested only when recording Wine lists come from photos, PDFs and links that guests add, and other users can see those menu pages. Prices come from the menu (converted to your currency) and may have changed since. Ratings and retail prices may be inaccurate or out of date. Wine Brats doesn't sell alcohol. You must be 21 or older to use it.

Screenshots

DJOL4 screens
Wine Brats4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wine Brats at none against DJOL's 2. Wine Brats also leads on ads (none vs shown). DJOL's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence 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. DJOL sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Wine Brats asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
DJOL versus Wine Brats: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDJOLWine Brats
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size77 MB13 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperArnold Hattinghmyrandomcompany Incorporated

In-app purchases

2 purchases

DJOL

Subscriptions2
  • DJOL Premium7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • DJOL Premium Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
None

Wine Brats

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DJOL free?
DJOL is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wine Brats free?
Wine Brats is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DJOL or Wine Brats have ads?
DJOL shows ads; Wine Brats does not.
Which is updated more often, DJOL or Wine Brats?
DJOL ships an update weekly, and Wine Brats weekly. Most recently, DJOL was updated on October 20, 2026 and Wine Brats on October 30, 2026.

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