Comparison

Find Craft Beer vs Brine!

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

Head to head
About

Find Craft Beer

Discover craft beer locations near you using your device's GPS or by searching a specific city. Filter by location type, sort by distance or ratings, and read or submit reviews and photos. Share your finds on social media.

Highlights
  • GPS location search
  • City-specific search
  • Filter by location type
  • Sort by distance or ratings
  • Read and submit reviews
  • Upload photos
  • Social media sharing
Currently charting
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Find Craft Beer allows you to use your iPhone or iPad to easily find a place near you to get a Craft Beer. Find Craft Beer uses the GPS to determine your current location and searches a database of Craft Beer locations within your specified distance. You can also provide Find Craft Beer with a specific city to search. Find Craft Beer searches a database of Brew Pubs, Breweries, Beer Bars, Beer Stores and Homebrew Shops. Limit your list to only those types of locations you are interested in. Search with a specific distance, sort by distance or ratings, read reviews of locations and submit your own reviews and pictures! Post to Facebook or Twitter about your current location so your friends can have a beer with you! Check-in comments and Untappd beer check-ins for a location right on the review screen. Find Craft Beer was a finalist in the 2009 BestAppEver awards in the Best Feel Like a Local App! Find Craft Beer is the ideal app when you want to find a place to get a Craft Beer. --- We need your help! Please report locations that are closed or have moved and add any place that other users would find great Craft Beer! All location updates are checked by a moderator so changes will not show immediately, but by having moderator approval, we prevent bad data from getting into the system. --

About

Brine!

Easily calculate brining recipes for various meats, poultry, fish, and seafood. Learn about different brining techniques and gain background knowledge to improve juiciness, flavor, and texture.

Highlights
  • Customizable recipes for various meats
  • Integrated calculators for recipe adjustments
  • Expert background knowledge on brining
  • Support for equilibrium, wet gradient, and dry brining
  • Calculators for custom salt concentrations
Features
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Brine! - The Brining Calculator Finally an easy way to calculate your brining recipe. Do you brine your meat, poultry, fish and seafood? You should! Brining makes your meal juicier, tender and more flavourful! Brining will improve your perfect thanksgiving turkey just as easily as your BBQ meat. Are you unsure how exactly you should brine your produce? Or deterred by complicated percentages and procedures? Then you need this app! Recipes, background knowledge and calculators: "Brine!" includes everything you need to master your brining game! Equilibrium brining, wet gradient brining or dry brining, it's all in the app so that you can use your favourite technique. KEY FEATURES: • CUSTOM RECIPES for Fish fillet, shrimps, chicken, duck and turkey as well as pork and beef. Your favourite meat isn't listed? No worries: You can easily adapt an existing recipe! • CALCULATORS EVERYWHERE: Your thanksgiving turkey is heavier than in the recipe? Somebody invited the neighbours to your BBQ? When it comes to brining, these things make a huge difference! We include calculators everywhere so you don't have to worry about it. • YOU'RE THE EXPERT? Use the custom calculator to use your own preferred final salt concentrations in your food. • BACKGROUND KNOW-HOW: What brining process should I use for what meat? What final salt concentration? How much salt should I use, and should I add sugar or curing salt? These and more questions about processes and principles are answered and bring you up to speed quickly. • BRINING TECHNIQUES: Equilibrium brining, wet gradient bringing and dry brining are the three important techniques in brining. Which one is best? It depends! Because each process has ist own advantages, we let you decide. Switch between techniques easily! WHY BRINE BEFORE COOKING? When brining, salt (and sometimes sugar and curing salt) penetrates into the meat before cooking. This has multiple desired effects: • JUICIER PRODUCE: Brining before cooking makes meat, poultry, fish and seafood juicier. Even after cooking is finished, the brined food will retain more moisture. • FLAVOUR: The brining mixture slowly enters the produce through osmosis. During the cooking process, it becomes evenly distributed throughout the produce and enhances ist taste! • SURFACE TEXTURE: You're aiming for a beautifully brown and flavourful bark? Brining, especially dry brining, will help you! Through the high salt concentration, the outer protein layer partially brakes down, encouraging a quicker Maillard reaction. Wonderful flavours and a bite to match! All the brining knowledge you need - summarized in one compact app with custom calculators. DOWNLOAD "Brine!" NOW! App content in English only. We are always excited to hear from you! If you have any feedback, questions, or concerns, please contact us at app@tastelab.ch.

Screenshots

Find Craft Beer4 screens
Brine!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Find Craft Beer at 4.6 against Brine!'s 3.0. Find Craft Beer also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and ratings volume (640 vs 2). Brine!'s advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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

Find Craft Beer costs $0.99 and Brine! $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Find Craft Beer holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Find Craft Beer has 640 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Find Craft Beer's written reviews are positive against 67% of Brine!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Find Craft Beer ships an update every 3 months, Brine! every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Find Craft Beer versus Brine!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFind Craft BeerBrine!
Price$0.99$0.99
Rating4.6 (640 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews72.3% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings640 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank#74 — better#192
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.612.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB27 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMicro Integration Services, Inc.Foodlab GmbH

Customer experience

Find Craft Beer

All ratings638 ratings
Positive93.7%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews83 reviews
Positive72.3%
Neutral6.0%
Negative21.7%

Brine!

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

Find Craft Beer

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Keyboard covers save button when writing reviews
  • Location search feature doesn't always work
  • Crashes when searching by current location

Requested features

3 requests
  • Update app more frequently to keep up with new breweries
  • Add ability to search by beer type
  • Integrate with more beer review sites

Brine!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Find Craft Beer

No in-app purchases

None

Brine!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Find Craft Beer free?
Find Craft Beer costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brine! free?
Brine! costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Find Craft Beer or Brine!?
Find Craft Beer is rated higher. Find Craft Beer averages 4.6 out of 5 from 640 ratings, while Brine! averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Find Craft Beer or Brine! have ads?
Neither Find Craft Beer nor Brine! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Find Craft Beer or Brine!?
Find Craft Beer ships an update every 3 months, and Brine! every 2 months. Most recently, Find Craft Beer was updated on November 1, 2026 and Brine! on October 29, 2026.
Which is more popular, Find Craft Beer or Brine!?
Find Craft Beer currently peaks at #74 in the App Store charts, and Brine! at #192. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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