Comparison

Portulator vs FermCalc Winemaking Calculator

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Portulator

This utility app helps winemakers calculate the precise amount of spirits needed to achieve a desired alcohol percentage in port wine. It offers two modes: one for fortified wines and another for port-style wines, also calculating residual sugar.

Highlights
  • Calculate spirits for fortified wines
  • Calculate spirits for port-style wines
  • Target alcohol percentage input
  • Calculate residual sugar
  • Input wine and spirit alcohol percentages
  • Input must volume and Brix levels
Features
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This app is a utility that calculates the amount of spirits to add to a wine to make a port wine of a target alcohol percentage. The first tab is for fortified wines where the user simply inputs the wine volume, wine alcohol percentage, spirits alcohol percentage, and the desired port wine alcohol percentage. The result is the volume of spirits to add to the wine. The second tab is for port-style wines. With a given must volume and a starting and ending Brix, one can calculate the amount of spirits to add for a target alcohol percentage and a given spirits alcohol percentage. The tab also calculates residual sugar after the addition of spirits.

About

FermCalc Winemaking Calculator

This app offers a comprehensive suite of advanced calculators for winemaking. It assists with unit conversions, adjustments for sugar, acidity, and sulfites, and estimations for alcohol content and blending. Designed for both beginners and professionals, it provides flexible input and output units for all calculations.

Highlights
  • Unit conversions (volume, mass, temperature, etc.)
  • Chaptalization & dilution calculations
  • Acidity adjustment tools
  • Sulfite addition calculator
  • Alcohol & solids content estimation
  • Blending and fortification calculators
  • Miscellaneous winemaking additions
Features
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FermCalc is a collection of advanced winemaking calculators designed to assist both amateur and professional winemakers with calculations related to the following activities: - Unit conversions - Chaptalization & dilution - Acidity adjustment - Sulfite additions - Alcohol & solids content estimation - Blending - Fortification - Miscellaneous additions FermCalc provides full flexibility for specifying both input and output units on all of the calculators. All of the functionality of the popular Java and JavaScript versions of FermCalc are included in the Andrioid version. Below is a complete list of the calculators currently available. ---------------------------------------- Unit Conversions -- Volume -- Mass -- Temperature -- Specific Gravity / Density -- Acidity -- Alcohol Content -- Concentration -- Refractivity ---------------------------------------- Sugar Calculators -- Chaptalization & Dilution -- Amelioration -- High Brix Measurement by Dilution ---------------------------------------- Acidity Calculators -- Acid Titration -- Acidification & Deacidiication -- Amelioration -- NaOH Standardization ---------------------------------------- Sulfite Calculator ---------------------------------------- Alcohol Content Calculators -- Hydrometer SG Drop -- Hydrometer & Refractometer -- Boiling (Spirit Indication) -- Potential Alcohol -- OIML Calculator -- Dry Matter ---------------------------------------- Blending Calculator ---------------------------------------- Fortification Calculators -- Post-Fermentation Fortification -- Fortification Point -- Hackbarth SG Calculator ---------------------------------------- Miscellaneous Calculators -- Dry Measure Converter -- Stock Solution Formulation -- Inverse Stock Solution Makeup -- Miscellaneous Additions -- Yeast Assimilable Nitrogen (YAN) ---------------------------------------- A help page is provided for each calculator, with a high-level description of the calculator and definitions of the input and output fields. Full details regarding the mathematics involved in the calculations are available at www.fermcalc.com.

Screenshots

Portulator2 screens
FermCalc Winemaking Calculator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: FermCalc Winemaking Calculator at Free against Portulator's $1.99. On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

FermCalc Winemaking Calculator is free to download; Portulator costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Portulator against 5.0 for FermCalc Winemaking Calculator. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Portulator versus FermCalc Winemaking Calculator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPortulatorFermCalc Winemaking Calculator
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better
Update frequencyEvery 20 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB1 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMark KaraszStephen Gross

Customer experience

Portulator

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

FermCalc Winemaking Calculator

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Portulator

No in-app purchases

None

FermCalc Winemaking Calculator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Portulator free?
Portulator costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is FermCalc Winemaking Calculator free?
FermCalc Winemaking Calculator is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Portulator or FermCalc Winemaking Calculator?
Portulator and FermCalc Winemaking Calculator are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do Portulator or FermCalc Winemaking Calculator have ads?
Neither Portulator nor FermCalc Winemaking Calculator shows ads.

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