Comparison

Wine Maps vs Restaurant Awards

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

Head to head
About

Wine Maps

Explore global wine regions with detailed visual maps. Search for specific areas, customize map views, and test your knowledge. Ideal for wine enthusiasts, educators, and commercial use with an optional distribution license.

Highlights
  • 130+ maps of wine regions across 25 countries
  • Search and zoom into specific wine regions
  • Customize map elements (labels, rivers, cities)
  • Print or export maps as images
  • Interactive quizzes for learning
  • Offline access to maps
  • Optional commercial distribution license
Features
Currently charting
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Wine Maps provides a handy visual reference, for the wine regions in twenty countries around the world. Its a great tool for anyone looking to learn more about the world of wine, and even better for those looking for maps to study from. It's perfect for those teaching others about wine, and Wine Maps provides a number of ways of exporting or printing maps. Wine Maps focuses exclusively on mapping the wine regions of the world. It offers one hundred and twenty two maps, defining the wine regions. It is NOT an encyclopaedia of wine, and does not give any textual definitions or comment. Wine Maps is a purely visual reference, which allows you to search for the location of a wine region. With the exception of the top wineries in Bordeaux, individual vineyards do not appear on the maps. There's just too many of them! Each map is one or two taps away from the main screen. Simply choose from the main wine region list, and you instantly have a map of that region. You can search for regions by name, and Wine Maps will neatly zoom into its location. The surrounding regions will be greyed out to highlight the selected region. Each map has the wine regions clearly presented, along with rivers, cities, and major towns.  You can adjust the major components for map. for example to hide the labels for wine regions. You can hide the rivers, or the towns and cities. On each map, controls are provided to show, grey out, or hide individual wine regions. For commercial users, who would like to make more extensive use of the maps, an in-app purchase has been added. This provides a licence to distribute maps, via websites, videos, presentations, and more. Wine Maps is also bundled with a companion app for your Apple TV. Allowing you to show off your wine knowledge, and TV simultaneously! Feature Summary: • Locate one of 1500+ wine regions in seconds • 130 Maps covering 25 countries • Accessible top down approach • Maps can be printed, or exported as images • Test yourself, to help with learning the world's wine regions • A licence for commercial distribution is available as in in-app purchase • Maps can be altered. For example, to hide labels, rivers, or towns and cities. • Individual wine regions can be hidden, or greyed out • Works offline • iPad, iPhone and Apple TV support • Currently on its 28th update. Wine Maps is actively developed (now with a version for the Mac desktop). What regions are included? - Overall World Map - Overall Europe Map - Central and Eastern Europe Map Old World - 17 Countries, and 62 Regions: - Austria - Bulgaria - Croatia - Czech Republic - France (with fifteen main subregions, and further sub-subregions. Eleven from Bordeaux, six from Burgundy, and Bergerac), - Georgia - Germany - Greece - Hungary - Italy (with nineteen subregions) - Moldova - Portugal - Romania - Spain (with ten subregions) - Slovenia - Slovakia - Switzerland New World - 9 Countries, and 40 Regions: - Argentina - Australia (with four subregions) - Brazil - Canada (with subregion Ontario) - Chile - Mexico - New Zealand (with two subregions) - South Africa (with the subregion Western Cape) - USA (with subregions of seventeen states, and fifteen subregions of California) Image Copyright All images generated using Wine Maps are issued under the "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License". https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ If you have purchased the Commercial Licence in-app purchase. All images generated are issued under the "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License". https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ By purchasing Wine Maps, or the Commercial Licence in-app purchase; you agree to adhere to the terms of the licence, which is appropriate to your purchase. Your personal data (Name and Email) would only be collected in the event of you choosing to email the developer for support.

About

Restaurant Awards

Discover restaurants globally recognized for their outstanding wine selections. This app provides access to over 3,800 award-winning establishments across 50 U.S. states and 80+ countries, offering a curated wine experience. Explore restaurant news, chef profiles, and editor recommendations.

Highlights
  • Search award-winning restaurants
  • Global restaurant directory
  • Discover exceptional wine lists
  • Restaurant news and articles
  • Chef and sommelier profiles
  • Editor's top picks
Features
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Wine Spectator's Restaurant Awards app will help you find restaurants with exceptional wine lists. Every featured dining destination - covering all 50 U.S. states and 80+ countries - has earned a Wine Spectator Restaurant Award for its dedication to wine. This app allows you to search through more than 3,800 award-winning restaurants to help you discover the ultimate wine experience. You’ll also find articles featuring the latest restaurant news, chef and sommelier profiles, our editors’ top picks and more.

Screenshots

Wine Maps4 screens
Restaurant Awards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Restaurant Awards at Free against Wine Maps's $0.99. Restaurant Awards also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Wine Maps's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and review sentiment (82% vs 67%). On update cadence, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Restaurant Awards is free to download; Wine Maps costs $0.99 up front. Wine Maps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Restaurant Awards asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Wine Maps holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Wine Maps has 109 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Wine Maps's written reviews are positive against 67% of Restaurant Awards's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wine Maps ships an update every 4 months, Restaurant Awards every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Wine Maps versus Restaurant Awards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWine MapsRestaurant Awards
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.6 (109 ratings) — better3.0 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews82.1% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings109 — better10
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#13 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.813.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB37 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperJonathan LordM. Shanken Communications, Inc.

Customer experience

Wine Maps

All ratings109 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral1.8%
Negative6.4%
Written reviews117 reviews
Positive82.1%
Neutral6.8%
Negative11.1%

Restaurant Awards

All ratings10 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral8.3%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Wine Maps

One-time1
  • Commercial Copyright Licence$4.99
None

Restaurant Awards

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wine Maps free?
Wine Maps costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Restaurant Awards free?
Restaurant Awards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Wine Maps or Restaurant Awards?
Wine Maps is rated higher. Wine Maps averages 4.6 out of 5 from 109 ratings, while Restaurant Awards averages 3.0 from 10 ratings.
Do Wine Maps or Restaurant Awards have ads?
Neither Wine Maps nor Restaurant Awards shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Wine Maps or Restaurant Awards?
Wine Maps ships an update every 4 months, and Restaurant Awards every 2 months. Most recently, Wine Maps was updated on September 22, 2026 and Restaurant Awards on August 13, 2026.

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