Comparison

Pocket Wine vs WineQuest

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

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Pocket Wine4 screens
WineQuest4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pocket Wine versus WineQuest: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket WineWineQuest
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (657 ratings) — better4.6 (14 ratings)
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews98.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings657 — better14
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.010.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB19 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperTime Marketing LimitedWineQuest

Customer experience

Pocket Wine

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

WineQuest

All ratings14 ratings
Positive92.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.1%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive98.1%
Neutral1.9%
Negative0.0%

User reviews

Pocket Wine

From 657 App Store ratings

What 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 ratings

What 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

3 purchases

Pocket Wine

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

WineQuest

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Wine free?
Pocket Wine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is WineQuest free?
WineQuest is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Wine or WineQuest?
Pocket Wine is rated higher. Pocket Wine averages 4.7 out of 5 from 657 ratings, while WineQuest averages 4.6 from 14 ratings.
Do Pocket Wine or WineQuest have ads?
Neither Pocket Wine nor WineQuest shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Wine or WineQuest?
Pocket Wine ships an update every 7 months, and WineQuest every 3 weeks. Most recently, Pocket Wine was updated on November 1, 2026 and WineQuest on November 6, 2026.

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