Comparison

Winery Math 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

Winery Math

This app provides essential calculations for winemakers, from adjusting sulfites and acidity to determining sugar additions and volume adjustments. It simplifies metric and English conversions for both home and professional vintners.

Highlights
  • Potassium meta-bisulphite calculations
  • Total Acidity adjustments
  • Chaptalization sugar calculations
  • Volume adjustments for alcohol targets
  • Metric/English unit conversions
  • Pocket tool for winemakers
Features
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Winery Math - the perfect pocket tool for home and professional winemakers. Need to figure out how much potassium meta-bisulphite you need to add 40 ppms to a 60 gallon barrel or 800 liter tank? Calculate Total Acidity and determine what adjustments are needed to hit your TA targets? Determine how many pounds/kilograms of sugar needed for chaptalization or volume of water needed to water back so you'll hit desired alcohol levels? Do you want a quick and easy way to do metric/english conversions (liters to gallons, Celsius to Fahrenheit, etc) on the fly? Then this is the app you want on your phone. Winery Math brings the major calculations and formulas used in winemaking right to your phone with an easy to use interface that gives every winemaker the tools they need to get the job done. Whether you are a home winemaker working with 5 and 6 gallon carboys or a professional working with 2000 liter tanks or 500 liter puncheon barrels, you'll find that making your adjustments and calculations have never been easier than with Winery Math!

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

Winery Math3 screens
FermCalc Winemaking Calculator4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: FermCalc Winemaking Calculator at 5.0 against Winery Math's 4.0. FermCalc Winemaking Calculator also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%). Winery Math's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 13.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

FermCalc Winemaking Calculator holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Winery Math's written reviews are positive against 100% of FermCalc Winemaking Calculator's.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Winery Math versus FermCalc Winemaking Calculator: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWinery MathFermCalc Winemaking Calculator
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings44
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS6.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElizabeth LeBeauStephen Gross

Customer experience

Winery Math

All ratings3 ratings
Positive33.3%
Neutral66.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral25.0%
Negative12.5%

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

Winery Math

No in-app purchases

None

FermCalc Winemaking Calculator

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Winery Math free?
Winery Math is free to download, 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, Winery Math or FermCalc Winemaking Calculator?
FermCalc Winemaking Calculator is rated higher. Winery Math averages 4.0 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while FermCalc Winemaking Calculator averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Winery Math or FermCalc Winemaking Calculator have ads?
Neither Winery Math nor FermCalc Winemaking Calculator shows ads.

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