Comparison

Pocket Wine vs VineCrawl

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Pocket Wine4 screens
VineCrawl4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Pocket Wine versus VineCrawl: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket WineVineCrawl
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (657 ratings) — better1.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews — better44.4% of reviews
Number of ratings657 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB23 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperTime Marketing LimitedJosh Walton

Customer experience

Pocket Wine

All ratings656 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral2.7%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews160 reviews
Positive90.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative7.5%

VineCrawl

All ratings2 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive44.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative55.6%

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

3 purchases

Pocket Wine

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
  • Annual Subscription7 Days trial$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Subscription$19.99
None

VineCrawl

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Wine free?
Pocket Wine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is VineCrawl free?
VineCrawl is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Wine or VineCrawl?
Pocket Wine is rated higher. Pocket Wine averages 4.7 out of 5 from 657 ratings, while VineCrawl averages 1.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Pocket Wine or VineCrawl have ads?
VineCrawl shows ads; Pocket Wine does not.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Wine or VineCrawl?
Pocket Wine ships an update every 7 months, and VineCrawl every 2 months. Most recently, Pocket Wine was updated on October 26, 2026 and VineCrawl on October 24, 2026.

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