Pocket Wine vs Simple Wine Manager
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/
Simple Wine Manager
Easily manage your wine collection with AI-assisted input, quick additions, and customizable views. Generate wine menus for guests and back up your data. Find specific bottles with powerful search and filtering tools.
- AI-assisted wine entry
- Quick add and copy wines
- Storage location management
- Advanced search and filtering
- Customizable sorting
- Generate wine menus
- Import/export data
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Wine Bottle Management must be simple! - Consume wines with a swipe - Add wines to your cellar quickly with as much information as you wish - also with the help of AI! - Copy wines to quickly add new vintages or other types of wines from the same producer. Add your storage locations. - Search & Filter: Quickly find specific wines, producers, vintages or wines from certain regions in your collection - Sort your views as you like and store different sort orders - Print: Generate beautiful wine menus from all or a selection of your wines to present to guests and friends - Data Management: Import/export your wine data for easy sharing or backup - Check the history and statistics of your wine collection - Works best on iPhone, but also does on iPad
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Wine Manager at none against Pocket Wine's 3. Simple Wine Manager also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 7 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Pocket Wine's advantage is ratings volume (657 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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. Simple Wine Manager asks for nothing beyond the download.
Simple Wine Manager 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Pocket Wine ships an update every 7 months, Simple Wine Manager every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pocket Wine | Simple Wine Manager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (657 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 657 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Time Marketing Limited | Dieter Lempen |
Customer experience
Pocket Wine
Simple Wine Manager
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
Simple Wine Manager
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
Simple Wine Manager
No in-app purchases
Questions
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