Pocket Wine vs WineQuest
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/
WineQuest
Discover wines you'll love and avoid those you won't with personalized taste predictions. Create a wine profile by answering simple questions and enhance it by rating wines you've tried. Find wines that match your preferences, even for friends.
- Personalized wine taste predictions
- Taste interview for profile creation
- Enhance profile with wine ratings
- Create multiple user profiles
- Save favorite wines and add notes
- Predictions for any wine
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“Will I Like this Wine?” WineQuest is the best way to find the wines you’ll like and avoid the wines you won’t. Just start with a quick taste interview and WineQuest can predict if you’re going to love, like, or simply hate a wine before you buy it. Rate the wines you drink to enhance your profile and to remember your favorites. WineQuest works when you need it most: at restaurants, grocery stores, bars, warehouse clubs, friends’ houses, wine stores, etc. Additional details: CREATE YOUR WINE PROFILE -Answer a few simple questions about salt and coffee to start your profile -Your profile gets stronger with each wine you rate -You can create additional profiles for anyone in your iPhone ‘Contacts’ directory FIND WINES YOU LIKE (AND THAT YOUR FRIENDS LIKE!) -Get a personal prediction for any wine you are considering -Get wine predictions for whoever you’re with (i.e. spouse, family member, friend) PERSONAL FAVORITES/NOTES -Rate the wines you drink to build your personal wine list -Add notes about each wine: who you drank it with, where you enjoyed it, etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: WineQuest at none against Pocket Wine's 3. WineQuest also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and review sentiment (98% vs 90%). Pocket Wine's advantage is ratings volume (657 vs 14). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Pocket Wine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. WineQuest asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Pocket Wine against 4.6 for WineQuest. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Wine has 657 ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Pocket Wine's written reviews are positive against 98% of WineQuest's.
Pocket Wine ships an update every 7 months, WineQuest every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Wine | WineQuest |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (657 ratings) — better | 4.6 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | 98.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 657 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Time Marketing Limited | WineQuest |
Customer experience
Pocket Wine
WineQuest
User reviews
Pocket Wine
From 657 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Detailed and informative wine information
- 🍷 Helpful for learning about wine and pairing with food
- 💻 Clean, easy-to-use interface
- 📚 Comprehensive grape variety and region details
- 🤖 Accurate 'My Taste' feature to recommend wines
Room to improve
- 🔍 Lacks ability to search/filter wines by specific properties
- 📸 No label scanning or auto-population of wine details
- 🔢 Limited inventory/selection of wines available in the app
- 🌐 Lacking coverage of some wine regions and grape varieties
WineQuest
From 14 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎯 Accurate wine predictions
- 👍 Learns user preferences
- 💡 Personalized taste profiles
- 🤝 Friend profile synchronization
- 📚 Extensive wine database
Room to improve
- ⏳ Outdated interface/design
- 📱 App not working on iPhone
- 🗄️ Ratings not transferred on phone change
- ➕ Many wines not in database
- ⬆️ Needs more frequent updates
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
WineQuest
Reported bugs
2 issues- Ratings didn't transfer when changing phones
- App quit working on iPhone
Requested features
5 requests- Scan bottle instead of typing
- More than one friend profile
- More educational content on wine
- Expand restaurant predictions
- Show which wines predictions are compared to
In-app purchases
Pocket Wine
- Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Lifetime Subscription$19.99
WineQuest
No in-app purchases
Questions
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