Comparison

Pocket Wine vs Wine School

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 School

Learn about wine from its origins to popular varietals. This app offers lessons on wine types, aging, and vineyards, with quizzes to test your knowledge. Track your progress and become a wine connoisseur.

Highlights
  • Wine origin lessons
  • Popular red wine guides
  • Wine aging explained
  • Vineyard exploration
  • Knowledge quizzes
  • Progress tracking
Features
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Explore the world of wine with our comprehensive Wine School app! From the origin of wine to popular red wines, our lessons cover everything you need to know to become a wine connoisseur. Discover the different types of wines, learn how aging of wine is done, and explore popular vineyards around the world. After each lesson, test your knowledge with our quizzes, and track your progress with our completion bar. Whether you're a wine enthusiast or just starting your wine journey, our Wine School app has something for everyone. Stay tuned for new versions of our app, which will include even more lessons to help you become a true wine expert!

Screenshots

Pocket Wine4 screens
Wine School4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Wine School at every 5 days against Pocket Wine's every 7 months. Wine School also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and review sentiment (100% vs 90%). Pocket Wine's advantage is ratings volume (657 vs 8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and Wine School sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wine School holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pocket Wine has 657 ratings behind it against 8, 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 100% of Wine School's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Wine ships an update every 7 months, Wine School every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Pocket Wine versus Wine School: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket WineWine School
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (657 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings657 — better8
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB31 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperTime Marketing LimitedHenrique Bersani

Customer experience

Pocket Wine

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

Wine School

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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 School

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
1 purchases

Wine School

Subscriptions1
  • Student Subscription$4.991 Year

Questions

Is Pocket Wine free?
Pocket Wine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wine School free?
Wine School is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Wine or Wine School?
Wine School is rated higher. Pocket Wine averages 4.7 out of 5 from 657 ratings, while Wine School averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Pocket Wine or Wine School have ads?
Neither Pocket Wine nor Wine School shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Wine or Wine School?
Pocket Wine ships an update every 7 months, and Wine School every 5 days. Most recently, Pocket Wine was updated on November 1, 2026 and Wine School on October 27, 2026.

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