Tasting.ai vs Whiskey Shelf
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tasting.ai
Discover whiskies tailored to your palate with AI-driven recommendations. Learn your flavor preferences and build a sophisticated taste profile. Made by bartenders for whisky enthusiasts, it empowers you to confidently explore and enjoy new spirits.
- AI-powered taste profiling
- Personalized whisky recommendations
- Flavor-based discovery
- Learn whisky preferences
- Recommendations with rationale
- Developed by bartenders
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Learn what you really like: You don't need to go to whisky school to have fun. Taste whisk(e)y and get personal recommendations based on your favorite (and least favorite) flavors. Your whisky selection will get better and better as you build your taste profile with the app. Recommendations with reasons: Tasting.ai helps you discover great whiskies you’ve never heard of—but it also explains why you’ll like them. Each recommendation you get in the app comes with a clear rationale that explains how the bottle fits into your flavor preferences, or your search terms. Born in a bar: This app was made by bartenders, for whisky lovers. Like a good bartender, tasting.ai will teach you what you like. We want to give you the confidence to speak your mind in any tasting, because what matters most is what tastes good to you. As we explain in our whi.ski blog called The Joy of Tasting, everyone is an expert when it comes to taste.
Whiskey Shelf
Track your whiskey, rum, and tequila collection with unlimited bottle entries. Manage your wishlist, calculate bottle valuations, and organize your Infinity Bottle. Discover new spirits and connect with other enthusiasts.
- Unlimited bottle inventory
- Wishlist management
- Bottle valuation calculator
- Infinity Bottle management
- Whiskey Friends network
- Customizable reports
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Whiskey Shelf is fastest growing app which can track your whiskey inventory including rum and tequila with unlimited bottles, tracks your wish list, calculates bottle valuations including open bottles, manages your Infinity Bottle, creates reports and helps you find sought after whiskeys with other Whiskey Shelf users as Whiskey Friends - all in one simple app!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tasting.ai at 5.0 against Whiskey Shelf's 4.5. Whiskey Shelf's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (133 vs 4). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tasting.ai holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Whiskey Shelf has 133 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Tasting.ai ships an update every 3 weeks, Whiskey Shelf every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tasting.ai | Whiskey Shelf |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | 4.5 (133 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 81.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 133 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 60 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | MatchValue.tech UG (haftungsbeschrankt) | Flint Hills Group |
Customer experience
Tasting.ai
Whiskey Shelf
In-app purchases
Tasting.ai
No in-app purchases
Whiskey Shelf
No in-app purchases








