Pocket Wine vs Wines
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/
Wines
Easily log and retrieve your wine collection with smart suggestions and photo recognition. Organize your cellar, track tasting notes, and discover new wines with this private and sophisticated app.
- Autofill wine details from label photos
- Smart suggestions for wine entry
- Add tasting notes
- Search and filter by multiple wine details
- Track bottle count and cellar inventory
- Export and import wine data
- iCloud syncing
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Wines lets you add and retrieve wines and what you thought about them simple and fast. Take a picture of the wine label and Wines will enter its details. In addition Wines gives suggestions from its database of 1500+ wine regions and 900+ varietals so that you can enter a new wine within seconds. ADD AND RETRIEVE • Autofills wine details, based on photo’s from your wine labels. • Smart suggestions. • Add notes. • Search supports multiple keywords. • Store and sort by Wine details: name, vintage, varietal, country, region, producer, bottles, rating, points, best before/after, shop, price, date added. • Filter by favourites, bottles in cellar and type. RESPECTS PRIVACY • The Wines app analyses your label on your device, without sending it to an external 3rd party. • The suggestions come from a database that is stored on your device. DISCOVER • Search directly with your preferred Search Engine (Bing, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Google, Yahoo). SHARE • Select and share multiple wines. • Import .wib (V1) and .wsf (V2) wine files directly into the app. • Export to CSV file. SIMPLE AND SOPHISTICATED • Counts your bottles. • Edit amount of bottles. • Shows front and back wine labels. • Two color themes: burgundy and vine. • Easily backup all wines. • iCloud syncing. • Your wines stay on iCloud even if you delete or reinstall the app. • Universal, works on iPhone, iPad and Apple Silicon Macs. • Supports Dark Mode and Accessibility sizes. Try the app for free with a limited number of wines and options, so you can see how easy it works. No subscriptions, you buy full functionality once. Privacy Policy: https://www.devart.nl/wines/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pocket Wine at 90% against Wines's 60%. Pocket Wine also leads on ratings volume (657 vs 5) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.6). Wines's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 7 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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
Both are free to download. Pocket Wine sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Wines sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wines 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 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 90% of Pocket Wine's written reviews are positive against 60% of Wines's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pocket Wine ships an update every 7 months, Wines every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Wine | Wines |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (657 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 657 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | +17 |
| Developer | Time Marketing Limited | Devart B.V. |
Customer experience
Pocket Wine
Wines
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
Wines
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pocket Wine
- Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$5.991 Year
- Lifetime Subscription$19.99
Wines
- Full app$4.99








