Comparison

Pocket Wine vs Simple Wine Manager

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

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.

Highlights
  • AI-assisted wine entry
  • Quick add and copy wines
  • Storage location management
  • Advanced search and filtering
  • Customizable sorting
  • Generate wine menus
  • Import/export data
Features
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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

Screenshots

Pocket Wine4 screens
Simple Wine Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pocket Wine versus Simple Wine Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket WineSimple Wine Manager
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (657 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings657 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size31 MB3 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperTime Marketing LimitedDieter Lempen

Customer experience

Pocket Wine

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

Simple Wine Manager

All ratings1 ratings
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

Simple Wine Manager

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
None

Simple Wine Manager

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pocket Wine free?
Pocket Wine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Simple Wine Manager free?
Simple Wine Manager is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pocket Wine or Simple Wine Manager?
Simple Wine Manager is rated higher. Pocket Wine averages 4.7 out of 5 from 657 ratings, while Simple Wine Manager averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pocket Wine or Simple Wine Manager have ads?
Neither Pocket Wine nor Simple Wine Manager shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Wine or Simple Wine Manager?
Pocket Wine ships an update every 7 months, and Simple Wine Manager every 10 days. Most recently, Pocket Wine was updated on November 1, 2026 and Simple Wine Manager on October 7, 2026.

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