Comparison

Pocket Wine vs Wine Temperatures

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

Wine Temperatures

This app helps wine lovers achieve the ideal drinking temperature for any bottle. It calculates cooling or warming times based on current and desired temperatures, and provides recommended serving temperatures for various wine types.

Highlights
  • Calculate cooling/warming time
  • Recommended serving temperatures
  • Understand temperature effects on wine
  • Bottle size and ambient temp input
  • Instant temperature adjustment calculation
Features
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Are you a wine lover looking to perfect your wine drinking experience? The Vino Mobile series brings you an essential app that quickly calculates how long your wine needs to cool or warm to reach the ideal drinking temperature! Key Features: • Precise temperature adjustments: Enter the current temperature of your wine, bottle size, ambient temperature, and desired serving temperature. Get an instant calculation of how long it will take to cool or heat your wine to perfection! • Recommended Serving Temperatures: Access ideal drinking temperatures for different types of wine, including sparkling, white, rosé, red and sweet. Make sure you serve your wine at its best! • Optimize your wine experience: Learn how different temperatures affect the perception of aromas, sweetness, acidity, tannins, alcohol and bitterness. Enhance your enjoyment of each glass with the right temperature! • Explore additional Vino Mobile Apps: Avinis offers a comprehensive range of apps tailored for wine enthusiasts, WSET students and graduates (WSET 1, WSET 2, WSET 3): # Wine Tasting (Wein degustieren; Dégustation de vins) Master wine tasting skills and decode wines like a pro. Start for free! # Wine Profiles (Weinsteckbriefe; Profils de vins) Discover typical characteristics of wines and grape varieties by region and decode wine more easy. Affordable and educational! # Wine Vintages (Weinjahrgänge; Millésimes de vins) Stay up to date with the latest ratings of over 5,700 wine vintages, updated annually, all at a wallet-friendly price! # Wine Trainer (Wein Trainer; Coach en vin) Expand your wine knowledge with 2,800 questions and answers. Try our free basic version! # Wine Temperatures (Weintemperaturen; Températures du vin) Make sure your wine is served at the perfect temperature with our dedicated app, available for free! Join the Vino Mobile Community today! Increase your wine enjoyment, impress your friends and become a wine expert with our innovative apps. We value your feedback! Reach us in the App Store or at www.avinis.com.

Screenshots

Pocket Wine4 screens
Wine Temperatures4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pocket Wine at 4.7 against Wine Temperatures's 3.5. Pocket Wine also leads on ratings volume (657 vs 2) and review sentiment (90% vs 75%). Wine Temperatures's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Pocket Wine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Wine Temperatures asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pocket Wine holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. 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 75% of Wine Temperatures's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Wine ships an update every 7 months, Wine Temperatures every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Pocket Wine versus Wine Temperatures: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket WineWine Temperatures
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (657 ratings) — better3.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings657 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB18 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperTime Marketing LimitedVinoMobile

Customer experience

Pocket Wine

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

Wine Temperatures

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

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

Wine Temperatures

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

Wine Temperatures

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Wine free?
Pocket Wine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wine Temperatures free?
Wine Temperatures is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Wine or Wine Temperatures?
Pocket Wine is rated higher. Pocket Wine averages 4.7 out of 5 from 657 ratings, while Wine Temperatures averages 3.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Pocket Wine or Wine Temperatures have ads?
Neither Pocket Wine nor Wine Temperatures shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Wine or Wine Temperatures?
Pocket Wine ships an update every 7 months, and Wine Temperatures every 6 months. Most recently, Pocket Wine was updated on November 1, 2026 and Wine Temperatures on October 11, 2026.

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