Comparison

Winebook vs Pocket Wine Pairing

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

Head to head
About

Winebook

Manage your wine collection with this app. It offers detailed information on grape varieties, wine properties, and allows for local or cloud storage. Features include AR scanning, advanced search, and smart inventory tracking.

Highlights
  • Cloud-based wine management
  • AR and object capture scanning
  • Detailed wine property storage
  • Advanced search and filtering
  • Smart inventory tracking
  • Grape variety information
  • Apple Pencil support
Features
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Winebook is a powerful Cloud base wine manager App for wine enthusiasts. It offers a wide source of information about the wine World with a robust content of grape varieties and beautiful photos. With an elegant and efficient solution to store your wine collection, Winebook saves all the important properties of your wines. You can store them locally in your device or in the Cloud to sync all your devices. FEATURES: • iCLOUD support: Your wines everywhere • AR (Augmented Reality) and Object Capture (scanner) • Storage of photos, properties (12), ratings (5) and notes for each wine • Advanced search bar for wines and grape varieties (name, type, country, rating and year) • Add your Favorite wine with a single touch on a heart • Easily navigate through the most important function of your Wines • New smart-Inventory, works with a drink button that automatically updates your total for each type of wine (white, rose, red, sparkling and fortified) • Detail views for each type of grape with a complete overview, beautiful photos, text to speech and font size of your choice • Select from 60 countries, each with it’s most important wine regions selected already for you • Wine properties include: name, category, type, vintage, country, region, brand, date drank, date bought, price, blend and inventory • Barcode scanner ** • Landscape mode for iPad • Certificates by main wine regions : A.O.C, D.O.C.G, D.O, D.O.C.A, V.d.l.T. ** • Grapes by main wine regions: Australia, France, Germany, Italy and Spain ** • Share wines: facebook, twitter, e-mail, airdrop and more ** • Universal support (for all devices) • No internet connection required • File migration - recover/backup your wine database on your Mac • Grape shop: add packages of grape varieties to your collection • Optimized for iPhone 6 and 6 plus • Multi-tasking support • Slide Over and Split View functionality support • Today's Widget support: EMOJIWINE (quick view inventory) • Apple Pencil notes per wine (only Wine App in App Store to support it) • Consult wine score history by experts (GlobalWineScores) • Unlimited Wine registration (Subscription) Pro version auto-renew subscriptions: - 1 year (Gold) | 3 month (Silver) | 1 month (Bronze) subscriptions* - Unlimited Wine entries - Full access to app | apple pencil - Full access to the grapes and more ABOUT SUBSCRIPTIONS • Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. • Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period.

 • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal.
 • Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
 • Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. NOTE 

• Winebook does not support Universal Purchase. Winebook Pro does. TERMS OF USE • https://www.termsofusegenerator.net/live.php?token=SE6EUjRJ1otauEtbkX3DU4rLrp0tLXiE

About

Pocket Wine Pairing

Easily discover perfect food and wine pairings with a comprehensive index of meal types and wine styles. Organize your personal wine collection with photos and ratings, and gain expert insights into grape varieties and wine regions.

Highlights
  • Food and wine pairing index
  • Wine style and grape variety insights
  • Personal wine cellar with photos
  • Do's & Don'ts pairing guide
  • Quick guide to food types
  • Wine ratings and notes
Features
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Featured as one of the “Best New Apps” on the App Store! Food and wine pairing has never been so clear, accessible and easy to understand. The app gives you a detailed index of hundreds of meal types, showing you the best matches for different wine styles, grape varieties and blends. A “Do’s & Don’ts” section, along with a “Quick Guide To Food Types” provides valuable and easy to follow information enabling you to discover even more unique food and wine pairings for yourself. Add your wines to the unique “My Wines” cellar function, along with your views and ratings. The app also allows you to add as many photos as you like to each wine entry, so you can include a photo of the meal you paired the wine with, a photo of the restaurant menu or a copy of a recipe. Explore the Styles section and gain valuable insights into wine styles and why they are so important in enabling you to approach wines with confidence, like a professional. Discover the grape varieties that belong to each style, as well as their key attributes, flavor profile, regions and food pairing advice. Here’s what some users of our full Pocket Wine app had to say: “This app is sensational! I discovered my love for wine. Wonderful on pairing with foods and discovering which wines suit your palate.” “From a beer only drinker to a full on wine enthusiast and all because of this wonderful little app! I definitely recommend giving it a try.” “A must for any wine enthusiast. This app is worth every dollar, and even more if you’re learning or want to discover new wines.” “This app is the deal … an exploration tool … what really matters.” “Best of the best. Hands down worth every penny, great for all levels of learning.” “Thanks to this app I now know what I’m looking at and looking for when I go to a wine store.” “The best wine app out there, hands down.” “Great app. I’m a winemaker in VA and recommend this for visitors in the tasting room. Definitely recommend it, worth the price for the education and food pairing suggestions.” “Absolutely fantastic wine reference tool. Beautiful interface, easy to use and unbelievably informative.” “Finally, an app that has made wine accessible to me – brilliant!” Enjoy and happy food and wine pairing. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Winebook4 screens
Pocket Wine Pairing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pocket Wine Pairing at 82% against Winebook's 29%. Pocket Wine Pairing also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Winebook's advantage is update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). 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. Winebook sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Pocket Wine Pairing sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Winebook ships an update every 3 months, Pocket Wine Pairing every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Winebook versus Pocket Wine Pairing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWinebookPocket Wine Pairing
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.6 (359 ratings) — better
Positive reviews29.2% of reviews82.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—359 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 7 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size166 MB31 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperChrystian EnriquezTime Marketing Limited

Customer experience

Winebook

Written reviews24 reviews
Positive29.2%
Neutral8.3%
Negative62.5%

Pocket Wine Pairing

All ratings359 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral4.2%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews73 reviews
Positive82.2%
Neutral4.1%
Negative13.7%

Bugs and requests

Winebook

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Pocket Wine Pairing

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • In-app purchase not prompting correctly on some devices
  • Unresponsive customer support for purchase issues

Requested features

9 requests
  • Expanded dessert wine pairing information and serving guidance
  • More frequent updates to food pairing database
  • Enhanced coverage of Canadian wine regions (Okanagan Valley, Niagara Peninsula)
  • Customizable wine and pairing information
  • Integration with other wine apps (Vivino)
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  • Organization by wine region/terroir in addition to varietal
  • Integration with wine rating tables (DeLong periodic wine table)
  • More comprehensive international wine coverage
  • Ability to add custom notes and preferences

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Winebook

Subscriptions3
  • Bronze Member$7.991 Month
  • Silver Member$17.993 Months
  • Golden Member$49.991 Year
3 purchases

Pocket Wine Pairing

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$5.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Subscription$19.99

Questions

Is Winebook free?
Winebook is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pocket Wine Pairing free?
Pocket Wine Pairing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Winebook or Pocket Wine Pairing have ads?
Neither Winebook nor Pocket Wine Pairing shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Winebook or Pocket Wine Pairing?
Winebook ships an update every 3 months, and Pocket Wine Pairing every 7 months. Most recently, Winebook was updated on September 22, 2026 and Pocket Wine Pairing on September 30, 2026.

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