Wine Maps vs GuildSomm
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
GuildSomm
Access a comprehensive database of wine and beverage knowledge offline. Study on the go or quickly find facts during service. Includes regional laws, appellations, climate data, cocktail recipes, and more, with customizable display modes.
- Offline Compendium Access
- Regional Wine Laws
- Appellation Information
- Climate and Production Data
- Viticulture & Vinification References
- Cocktail Recipes
- Dark/Light Mode
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The GuildSomm Compendium at your fingertips, whenever you need it! The GuildSomm App provides offline access to the full resources of the GuildSomm Compendium. Perfect for studying during your commute or quickly looking up a fact during service. The database includes regional wine and appellation laws, lists of wine regions, classifications, climate and production data, viticulture and vinification references, cocktail recipes, and much more. The Compendium can be viewed in either a dark or light mode. Users who are not GuildSomm members may purchase an auto-renewing monthly subscription ($7.99/month) that will give them access to the Compendium only. 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, at the rate of $7.99/month. Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase. No cancellation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period. Privacy Policy: https://www.guildsomm.com/p/privacy GuildSomm Terms of Use: https://www.guildsomm.com/p/terms Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ ABOUT GUILDSOMM GuildSomm is a nonprofit membership organization that promotes wine education and community. Through our website and in-person events, we help our members broaden their knowledge of the wine world, enhance their beverage and service skills, network with other wine professionals, and keep up with industry news and trends.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Wine Maps at 82% against GuildSomm's 21%. Wine Maps also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (109 vs 2). GuildSomm's advantage is price (Free vs $0.99). On update cadence, 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
GuildSomm is free to download; Wine Maps costs $0.99 up front. Wine Maps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and GuildSomm sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
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 2, 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 21% of GuildSomm's.
Wine Maps ships an update every 4 months, GuildSomm every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Wine Maps | GuildSomm |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (109 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.1% of reviews — better | 21.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 109 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #13 — better | #178 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.8 | 13.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jonathan Lord | GuildSomm International, Inc. |
Customer experience
Wine Maps
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In-app purchases
Wine Maps
- Commercial Copyright Licence$4.99
GuildSomm
- Compendium Access$7.991 Month







