Pocket Wine vs VineCrawl
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket Wine
Enhance your wine knowledge and enjoyment with a comprehensive guide to wine styles, grape varieties, and food pairings. This app offers a unique cellar management tool to track your collection visually, discover your taste profile, and access an extensive glossary of wine terms.
- Cellar management with visual tracking
- Explore wine styles and grape varieties
- Food pairing recommendations
- Personal taste profiling tool
- Extensive wine glossary
- Sync across iPhone and iPad
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“The Ultimate App for Wine Enthusiasts” – iPhoneLife Magazine Take your wine knowledge and enjoyment to the next level with our comprehensive app. It is one of the most popular wine apps in the USA, UK and Canada and is probably the best investment you can make in wine. Simple and easy to use, the app provides you with insights that would otherwise take years to acquire. For example, understanding wine styles is a revelation and will enable you to approach wines with confidence, like a professional. After using the app for a short while, every wine store you walk into will become an Aladdin’s Cave of hidden treasures. The unique cellar management function allows you to record and track your wines in a highly visual and meaningful way. Style icons are assigned to each wine and essential details can be seen at a glance. You can save as many photos as you like for each wine and add as much, or as little, information as you want, including notes and ratings. Editing is easy, and search and sort functions allow you to view your wines in multiple ways. In addition, you can explore a range of dedicated sections in the app on wine styles, grape varieties, food pairing and a unique taste profiling tool to reveal the wines you love based on the foods you like, which is both fun and informative. Key benefits include: • Record all your wines by adding them to the app (add as many wines as you like, there is no limit). View them in a highly visual and meaningful format and profile your cellar in multiple ways. • Sync your wines between iPhone and iPad – you can add the app to your other Apple devices free of charge. • Gain a revealing insight into wine styles through clear and easy to understand definitions. • Unlimited access to over 100 grape varieties and blends, showing key attributes, detailed descriptions, regional information and food pairing advice for each. • Dedicated Food Pairing section with expert advice and pairing recommendations for hundreds of meal types. • Discover your personal taste profile, and those of your friends and family, in the unique My Taste guide. • Access an extensive Glossary of wine terms, specifically written for the app. • Frequently Asked Questions section answers all the important questions you may have. Please note that Pocket Wine does NOT try to sell you wines or review individual wines. The app is dedicated to maximizing your enjoyment and understanding of wine, while providing a professional platform to record your wine experiences and manage your cellar. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
VineCrawl
Discover local wineries and tasting rooms with detailed information on their wines, hours, and events. Plan your visits using interactive maps and curated wine trails. Share your experiences and connect with wineries.
- Winery and tasting room listings
- Interactive maps for locations
- Curated wine trails
- Detailed wine characteristics
- Event listings and calendar integration
- User reviews and photos
- Direct messaging to tasting rooms
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VineCrawl is your guide to the best local tasting rooms and their selections...an app where local wineries collaborate to bring you exclusive information about their wines, their locations, and what is happening. Features include - Winery List - Find distances and hours for a winery or tasting room near you. - Maps - Find where they are on the map. - Wine Trails - Find local wine trails and tasting room offerings. - Search - Find those desirable hidden wineries and local favorite tasting rooms. Winery Specific: - Tasting rooms - Hours, fees and directions. - Wines - Name, characteristics, alcohol content, and descriptions. - Wine Clubs – See what they have with their clubs. - Events – see what is happening at the winery. Plus, add them to the calendar so you don’t miss out. - Foods – See what is there to munch on. - Activities – find out what you can do there. - Reviews - Keep track of your thoughts about the winery. - Guest Photos - Share your experience at the winery by posting a picture from the winery. (Requires account) - Send messages to the Tasting Room. (Requires account) Like a winery? – Share it via Messages, Twitter, Facebook etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pocket Wine at 90% against VineCrawl's 44%. Pocket Wine also leads on rating (4.7 vs 1.0) and ads (none vs shown). VineCrawl's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Pocket Wine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. VineCrawl asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pocket Wine holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Wine has 657 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Pocket Wine's written reviews are positive against 44% of VineCrawl's.
Pocket Wine ships an update every 7 months, VineCrawl every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Wine | VineCrawl |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (657 ratings) — better | 1.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 44.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 657 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Time Marketing Limited | Josh Walton |
Customer experience
Pocket Wine
VineCrawl
Bugs and requests
Pocket Wine
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional crashes or freezes reported by some users
- Compatibility issues with older devices mentioned
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to scan wine labels and auto-populate details
- Implement more advanced filtering/search options for wines
- Expand coverage to include more wine regions and grape varieties
- Add a 'My Cellar' feature to easily track and manage personal wine inventory
VineCrawl
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pocket Wine
- Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Lifetime Subscription$19.99
VineCrawl
No in-app purchases









